Foreign Policy In Focus/Institute for Policy Studies, March 4, 2010; also AHEWAR.org, CommonDreams, Huffington Post & Nasir-Khan blog
It was a relatively short response to a question in a town hall-style meeting in Florida, yet it said much about President Barack Obama’s lack of concern about human rights in his foreign policy… The student’s question was simple: Given that Obama had spoken about “America’s support for human rights,” she asked, “Why have we not condemned Israel and Egypt’s violations of human rights against the occupied Palestinian peoples [while continuing to support such oppression] with billions of dollars coming from our taxes?” [source]