US State Department Facing Lawsuit Claiming Funding Israel Violates Human Rights Law

Elvis Dunderhoff December 18, 2024

There is a law that says the US can’t send weapons to countries committing human rights abuses.

Maybe “human rights abuses” is sometimes a difficult piece of terminology, but come on. The defense minister (at the time) called the civilians he was slaughtering “human animals” and said, in public, he was going to use food and water as weapons against them.

If there ever was a human rights abuse, it was these Jews. Everyone knows it.

But the US is a rules-based order, meaning it can do whatever it wants to anyone, forever.

The Guardian:

The state department is facing a new lawsuit brought by Palestinians and Palestinian Americans accusing the agency of deliberately circumventing a decades-old US human rights law to continue funding Israeli military units accused of widespread atrocities in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday, marks the first time that victims of alleged human rights abuses are challenging the state department’s failure to ever sanction an Israeli security unit under the Leahy Law, a 1990s-era law that prohibits US military assistance to forces credibly implicated in gross human rights violations.

The plaintiffs include Amal Gaza, a pseudonym for a mathematics teacher from Gaza who has lost 20 family members; Shawan Jabarin, the director of the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq, who endured six years of arbitrary detention in the West Bank; and Ahmed Moor, a Palestinian American with relatives in Gaza who have been repeatedly displaced by the ongoing Israeli offensive. (Moor has written opinion pieces for the Guardian.) Along with two other plaintiffs, they are demanding judicial intervention to force the US to comply with the law.

With the death toll in Gaza since last October reportedly approaching 45,000 and humanitarian aid to the territory severely restricted, the legal challenge represents an attempt to force the administration to implement a law that has been seen as effective in helping the US to stem human rights violations by foreign military units in central America, Colombia, Nepal, and other countries.

The Leahy Law was designed to prohibit foreign governments from providing US assistance to any security forces that the US identifies as being ineligible due to a gross violation of human rights. But, as one former state official told the Guardian earlier this year: “The rules were different for Israel.”

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The complaint hones in on a litany of alleged violations committed by Israeli military units with US support, including torture, prolonged detention without charge, forced disappearance, and what the plaintiffs describe as actions amounting to genocide in Gaza.

It references findings by international judicial bodies like the International Criminal Court that culminated in arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant – findings that were rejected by the US. It also points to pre-7 October cases that led to investigations under the Leahy Law that were ultimately dismissed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, such as the 2022 death of 78-year-old Omar As’ad in the West Bank.

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A Guardian investigation published in January found that top US officials had quietly reviewed more than a dozen incidents of alleged gross violations of human rights by Israeli security forces since 2020, but implemented special bureaucratic measures that have ultimately preserved access to US weapons for the allegedly responsible units. The investigation found that special mechanisms have been used over the last few years to shield Israel even as other allies’ military units who receive US support – including, sources say, Ukraine – have privately been sanctioned and faced consequences for committing human rights violations.

In April, Reuters reported that some senior US officials privately voiced their doubts to Blinken about Israel’s assurances that it was using US-supplied weapons in accordance with international humanitarian law. That same month, a coalition of 185 lawyers in both the Biden administration and private sector argued that they believe Israel’s military actions likely violate US humanitarian laws, a claim later repeated by 20 White House staffers who dissented in November.

Nothing is ever going to stop US weapons to Israel, short of a revolution in America that removes all of the Jews from positions of power.

But it’s good to poke at the government and show more people just how ridiculous it is to have these Jews running everything.

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