Moral Blindness of the Human Rights Industry

Melanie Phillips in the UK has become one of my favourite columnists recently (but not yet near Barbara Kay).

And this article struck a chord that had been played by Ezra LEVANT.

The civil war in Congo, Krystof writes, has claimed almost seven million lives over the last dozen years.  [And yet] Neither Amnesty nor HRW has issued a single press release or report on Congo so far this year, according to their web sites.

This was the "moral calculus" that explained it:

Since countries of the third world did not subscribe to western cultural norms of respect for human life, they said, we in the west could not judge such countries’ behaviour by those norms. To do so would be an act of cultural imperialism. But since Israel did subscribe to those norms, it was accordingly judged by them; indeed, they added, since the Jews claimed superior standards to the rest of humanity, they needed to be judged by higher standards than those applied to the rest of the human race.

In a comment post, reference was made to this (warning, satire ahead):

UN Streamlines Decision-making by Dumping Democracies