On October 7, 2023, Hamas carried out the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Families were burned alive in their homes. Children were murdered in front of their parents. Women were raped and mutilated. Elderly civilians were dragged into Gaza as hostages. The perpetrators filmed their crimes and proudly shared the videos with the world.

In the days that followed, one might have expected the global human rights movement to respond with unmistakable moral clarity. Instead, within hours, protests appeared across Western campuses condemning Israel rather than the terrorists who had carried out the attack.

That inversion revealed something deeply troubling about the modern human rights ecosystem.

Across the world today, atrocities of staggering scale unfold with comparatively little attention. Sudan’s civil war has produced mass killings and famine. China’s repression of the Uyghur Muslim population includes mass detention and cultural destruction. Christian communities across parts of Nigeria and the Sahel face relentless attacks from jihadist groups. The Yazidi genocide carried out by ISIS remains one of the clearest cases of ethnic extermination in the 21st century.  Most recently, the Druze of Syria have faced mass killings, torture and displacement.

Yet when the subject becomes Israel, the machinery of global activism mobilizes with remarkable speed and intensity — often advancing accusations of genocide that collapse under serious scrutiny.

The pattern reveals a striking........

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