Secretary of State Antony Blinken unveiled a report that spotlights alleged Israeli human rights abuses amid a controversy over potential IDF sanctions.
“Do we have a double standard? The answer is no,” Blinken told reporters Monday at the. “We apply the same standard to everyone, and that doesn’t change whether the country in question is an adversary, a competitor, a friend, or an ally.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the start of a briefing on the recently released 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices at the State Department in Washington, Monday, April 22, 2024. Blinken faces pressure to accept the recommendations offered by a team of State Department officials known as the Israel Leahy Vetting Forum, a committee tasked with assessing allegations that might trigger military aid restrictions under the Leahy law, which bans “the U.S. Government from using funds for assistance to units of foreign security forces where there is credible information implicating that unit in the commission of gross violations of human rights.
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