Helpful chart from The Economist:
I’ve heard the usual complaints about hypocrisy and double-standards, but while it’s certainly true that Turkey’s treatment of Kurds is not all it should be I’m really hard-pressed to think of an example of a government that’s preventing 1.5 million civilians from buying cilantro or musical instruments. North Korea, presumably. There are lots of human rights problems in the world, and certainly a lot of Arab autocracies seem to have a very selective interest in human rights issues, but this is real outlier behavior on Israel’s part and it has no reasonable relationship to security.
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