Israel is singled out and held to a higher standard than other countries.

If anything, Israel is held to a lower standard than most states. Despite decades of settler colonialism, occupation, apartheid, and now genocide, it remains one of the world's largest recipients of military, financial, and diplomatic support. The United States alone provides Israel with $3.8 billion in military aid annually, and has vetoed more than 53 UN Security Council resolutions to shield it from accountability. Far from being singled out, Israel is uniquely protected by imperial power.

This propaganda often points to the UN adopting more resolutions on Israel than on any other state. What it omits is that Israel is among the world's most persistent violators of those resolutions. From Resolution 194 in 1948 obligating Israel to realize the right of Palestinian refugees to return, to Resolution ES-10/24 in 2024 demanding Israel to end its unlawful occupation by September 2025, the real exception is the decades of impunity that have enabled Israel to ignore them with no consequences.

The real exception is Israel's admission to the UN in 1949 as a "peace-loving State" after it had ethnically cleansed 800,000 Palestinians, destroyed 530 villages, and committed 70 massacres. In doing so, the international community legitimized a settler-colonial state in violation of the Palestinian people's right to self-determination. Israel's admission also rested on implementing the return of Palestinian refugees, a commitment it has never honored, while continuing successive waves of ethnic cleansing over the following eight decades. Israel's acceptance into the international system illustrates the exceptional impunity it has enjoyed from the outset.

The claim that Israel is "singled out" shifts attention from its conduct to its critics. The issue is not how often Israel is criticized, but whether that criticism is followed by accountability. For eight decades, Israel has escaped accountability while continuing to receive the military and diplomatic support that enables its colonial and genocidal project.

Israel has not only colonized Palestine. Since its establishment in 1948, it has attacked or occupied at least 12 countries across the region. In 2025 alone, it was simultaneously attacking Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, Syria, and Qatar. The exceptional treatment is allowing this regional colonial aggression to continue without accountability.

Israel is not a typical state. It is one of the last remaining settler-colonial projects, maintains the world's longest military occupation, is the only state carrying out a live-streamed genocide, and is a repeated regional aggressor. The scrutiny it faces is justice long delayed.

Israel places itself above the laws that govern every other state. It has ignored more than 1,000 UN resolutions, defied International Court of Justice rulings on its occupation and genocide, and rejected International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants. Israel has also repeatedly attacked the very institutions responsible for enforcing international law by targeting ICC and UN officials, banning UNRWA, and refusing entry to independent investigators. This is the conduct of a state that undermines the international legal order, not the victim of it.

For decades, the international community sanctioned occupation and apartheid, from South Africa to Russia. Yet when it comes to Israel, the dominant international response has been symbolic condemnations and failed "peace processes" that place the oppressor and the oppressed on equal footing rather than addressing settler colonialism through accountability. Israel is not held to a higher standard. It is exceptionally placed above international law.