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Biden showed ‘double standard’ on human rights amid Israel’s Gaza war: HRW

The report highlighted the 'often-disregarded reality' that liberal democracies like the US were 'not always reliable champions of human rights' at home or abroad [File: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters]

United States President Joe Biden demonstrated “a double standard” on human rights, providing “arms without restriction” to Israel despite its war crimes in Gaza while condemning Russia for “similar violations” in Ukraine, according to a new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report.

The rights group’s 2025 world report, published on Thursday, noted how the US withheld funding to UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, amid Gaza’s starvation crisis due to the Israeli siege.

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