American actress Angelina Jolie expressed her frustration with the discrimination and double standards present in the world regarding human rights. In an interview with Syrian director Waad Al-Kateab, a snippet of which she shared on her Instagram account as part of the documentary "We Dare to Dream," Jolie revealed that she discovered the truth after nearly 20 years of working in humanitarian efforts.
She noted that the idea of defending human rights perhaps emerged from the events of World War II, which involved clear objectives and lines for human rights and the necessity for someone to act to realize these rights, a task that inherently falls to the United Nations. However, Jolie pointed out that she found things are not so straightforward. She added, "I learned that the world does not operate this way; rather, it is through a different approach where we grant certain people these rights and justice, perhaps temporarily, but some will never receive them."
Jolie initially believed there were clear limits and some understandings "until we see and understand more and more how things are not that simple and that this is not the world." She also mentioned food aid as an example: "6% for some and 50% for others. Justice for these but not for those. Accountability for this crime but no punishment if there are interests." She noted that this represents "the ugly truth for a large part of the world that we realize over time. We will condemn these for their crimes, but not those; it’s the big lie of the world that becomes clearer with time."
It is worth mentioning that the American star had condemned the Israeli military's response to the attacks carried out by Hamas, which resulted in a violent Israeli reaction that has claimed the lives of more than 20,000 civilians so far in Gaza. Jolie, a former special envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, accused Israel of deliberately bombing children, women, and families, depriving them of food, medicine, and humanitarian aid in violation of international law.
