Talking about putting China in a bad light?
(As compared to Israel?). Well lets see if
there are any parallels:

The Washington Times gave an opinion/analysis
in late December 2019:

They pointed out :

"What would happen if the Israelis were keeping a close
eye on Palestinians within Israel's borders and that
for at least (several decades) had been rounding up
Palestinian men and women (and children) and shipping them
off to "re-education" or concentration camps without
trials?"

" The international community and media would go nuts.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu would be roundly denounced
by one and all, the US Congress would enact sanctions.
Middle Eastern UN Representatives would denounce Israel
as totalitarian anti-Muslim and illegitimate and there
would be demands that Mr Netanyahu be arrested as a racist
and tried by the International Criminal Court for crimes
against humanity."

" Universities and pension funds would face demands that
they "divest" themselves of any investments in Israel and
there would be demonstrations or even riots in many Arab
cities."

"Of course Israel has never launched or even contemplated
such an attack on minorities within its borders, but
China is doing just that. China is actively persecuting and
imprisoning and terrorizing millions of Uyghurs in the
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of northwest China."

"Beijing has continually denied all this - at the same
time claiming it is necessary for their security and to
fight terrorism. And they remind their critics - what
goes on in China - is nobody's business but theirs
and the world should mind its own business."

"Most countries have muted their criticism of what
amounts to as a humanitarian crisis in an effort to
avoid "offending" Beijing. Beijing's money, power,
and trade are as significant as Beijing's willingness
to punish any nation or entity critical of its policies
and reward those that accept or even defend their
behaviour and practices that would never be tolerated
from other nations."

Interesting analysis.

Foxy,

Your last post actually makes my point. There a long list of countries committing atrocities against minorities and the rest of the world is silent.

Yet Israel who actively tries to reduce civilian casualties when terrorists are firing from populated areas is condemned and those firing from populated areas (effectively using them as human shields) are free from criticism.

This is significantly due to antisemitism.

Shadowminster,

Aren't Arabs semites as well? And isn't being
anti - them - anti-Semitic?

Foxy,

The Geneva convention which applies to declared and undeclared conflicts makes it clear that firing on an unarmed civilian population is a war crime UNLESS there are enemy combatants within that population that are actively firing on your positions. In this case relatatory firing is not a war crime, and the act of using civilian populations as a human shield is a war crime.

The incident refered to by SR where civilians were killed has several reports not only of Arabs firing from households full of civilians, but also of Arabs firing on Israeli troops after a cease fire to evacuate civilians was agreed. If this was the case the killings while a tragedy were not a war crime.

Finally,

While Arabs are also "semites" the term antisemitic is synonomous with anti-jewish.

Shadowminister,

The term "anti-Semitic" was coined in 19th century
Germany. anti-Semitic literally and technically
means being opposed to someone who speaks a
Semitic language (Arabic and Hebrew). At that time
Jews in Europe did not speak a Semitic language.

And we don't know how much knowledge of philology and
linguistics Wilhelm Marr the German who coined that
phrase in 1879 had.

All a bit confusing. People have used it to their advantage
for decades.

shadowminister,

That indeed was the IDF excuse after the attack but the subsequent inquiry showed it to be completely false.