Israel-Iran: Complicit silence and selective indignation, when human rights become a weapon against Africa
War is raging in the Middle East. Civilians, children, women, and the elderly die every day under bombs, blockades, and targeted strikes. Entire nations are sinking into chaos, orchestrated or supported by major world powers. Recent U.S. strikes against Iran, the massacres in Palestine, the bombings of Gaza, the inhumane economic sanctions— all of this is unfolding before the eyes of the world, in a silence as chilling as it is deafening.
Where are the so-called great voices of the “international community”? Where are Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the countless NGOs supposedly defending human dignity? Their silence is not only an insult to the victims, but also a confession of their alignment with the geostrategic interests of the West. When it comes to Africa, these same organizations swoop in like vultures to “investigate,” “condemn,” and demand “sanctions” against whichever government they choose. But when facing Israel’s crimes or American aggression, they look the other way, get lost in diplomatic vagueness, or issue lukewarm statements that lead nowhere.
The double standards are blatant. African blood, it seems, has a scent that these institutions’ moral radars detect instantly. The slightest political unrest in Africa becomes an international scandal. African leaders are hunted down, judged, exposed. The International Criminal Court suddenly becomes hyperactive. But what about Israeli leaders? Americans? All those with blood on their hands in the Middle East?
Even journalists—usually so eager to cover African crises—are suspiciously silent. Why this selective mutism? Because the geopolitics of human rights is nothing more than a moral disguise for a global system of domination. These NGOs are funded, led, and guided by Western powers. Behind their defense of “universal values” lies a hidden project of global control.
Africa, in its quest for sovereignty, must open its eyes. It’s time to build our own watchdogs, our own justice systems, our own media. The continent can no longer allow itself to be judged by those who, elsewhere, trample daily on the very principles they claim to uphold.
