WHEN SECRETARY MARCO Rubio proposed a sweeping reorganization of the State Department on Tuesday, he singled out a human rights office that he said had become a platform for “left-wing activists” to pursue “arms embargoes” on Israel: the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.

Rubio is proposing to rename the bureau, downsize it, and shunt it under another section of the State Department. The bureau’s duties include writing an annual human rights report — which has been critical of Israel — and enforcing a law banning aid to military units that violate human rights that has rankled Israeli leaders.

On one level, the accusation that the bureau was a hotbed of anti-Israel activism baffled critics of the State Department’s handling of the Gaza war. Their push to block weapon sales to Israel went nowhere under Joe Biden’s secretary of state, Antony Blinken.

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    All those concerned accounts sure have been quiet recently. I wonder how many of their users have been drafted to the front line in Ukraine.

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      I never went anywhere, your insinuation are disgraceful. My wife lost friends in Gaza. In lebannon. None of us are fucking Russians.

      You’re a shit genocide supporter and no better than a Nazi in my book.

      People get banned for speaking about the genocide, aashole