Targeting Muslims
Published
in Dawn, April 26th, 2026
ACCORDING
to an Al-Jazeera report, “... of the Palestinians tried for offences committed
in the occupied West Bank, 99.74 per cent were found guilty ... conviction
rates for settlers found guilty by civilian courts of committing crimes against
Palestinians in the West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem) between 2005 and 2024
ran to about 3pc”. Also, the same channel reported, quoting The Guardian
newspaper, that Israel has yet to prosecute any of its citizens for killing
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank “since the start of this decade”.
Just
imagine, if another country were to sentence only Christians or Jews to death,
for any crime, there would have been a huge outcry, with possible sanctions
imposed on that country. Even the widely reviled apartheid regimes of South
Africa never enacted such a law. Yet, just because it is Israel, Western powers
have only voiced mute criticism. This is shameless hypocrisy and double
standards at work.
Shakir
Lakhani
Karachi
https://www.dawn.com/news/1995120/targeting-muslims
