Human rights worker Mike Levy explains why he singles Israel out

Why do we single Israel out? Riding on a Code Pink bus in Gaza last month with Mike Levy, a human rights worker from Osceola, Wisconsin, I asked him to compare the human-rights abuses we were witnessing, some of it visible out the window, with other human-rights violations he had researched through his long career. Watch the video, but Levy makes a few significant points: that Israel's flouting of international law is so public and well-documented that it threatens the entire "structure" of international law; that the destruction in Gaza was "genocidal," in that it is an attempt to destroy Palestinian civilization; and that rarely have we seen such a malicious effort carried out over such an extended period, in such a small place. On that note, he said, that nowhere in the world is there so much U.S. responsibility for bloodshed and trauma (and Jewish responsibility, he throws that in too, as a Jew) as there is in Palestine.