DOI: 10.36347/sjebm.2022.v09i03.001

Pages: 52-62

After taking office, the Biden administration raised human rights and other values to a much higher position in foreign policy than during the Trump administration, claiming that it would regard the protection of human rights in countries around the world as an important goal of its foreign policy. However, from the perspective of its policy practice on the Palestinian-Israeli issue, its relevant human rights discourse cannot stand the test of facts at all. Although Israel has seriously violated Palestinian human rights for a long time, the Biden administration has paid little attention to the Palestinian-Israeli issue and basically inherited the Trump administration’s policy on key issues of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which is tantamount to supporting Israel’s human rights violations. During the Gaza war that broke out in May 2021, the Biden administration refused to condemn Israel’s bombing of Gaza, repeatedly stressed that Israel’s actions were in self-defense, and not only continuously obstructed the Security Council’s adoption of statements condemning Israel and calling for a ceasefire between the two sides, it also approved arms sales to Israel. The above actions of the Biden administration fully reflect the hypocrisy of its human rights discourse.