Reporting from Gaza, Juan Miguel Muñoz says that that more than a hundred Palestinians suspected of spying for Israel were summarily executed by Hamas during the recent conflict in that territory.

While the [Hamas] fighters launched rockets dozens of collaborators passed information about targets to the Israeli forces. Many people must have died as a result of this help give to the enemy. The reaction of the Islamist militia was devastating and brutal. More than a hundred of these fifth columnists were summarily executed […] “They were men who all of a sudden set up stalls to sell nuts in order to monitor the homes of Hamas leaders. Others came back from areas where the Israelis were already deployed without having suffered any kind of harm. It’s almost impossible that they weren’t helping the enemy,” according to a source close to the Islamist movement.

A note of confusion creeps into the report later on when Muñoz quotes the same source as saying that the hundred who were executed had been caught red handed shooting at Hamas fighters. Nevertheless, it seems certain that Hamas murdered a great number of real or perceived collaborators with Israel during the recent conflict.

Will there be calls for these crimes to be investigated? There will not.

Will there be demonstrations around the world to protest against the denial of even the most basic elements of due process to the dead? Not a chance.

Will grave professors now make comparisons between the behavior of Hamas with that of the Nazis during World War II? Don’t hold your breath.

None of these things will happen because the bulk of those howling about Israel’s actions in Gaza in recent days only care about human rights when those violating them are Israelis. When Hamas shoots dozens of Palestinians out of hand, that isn’t regarded by these people as a breach of human rights but rather as a necessary, if regrettable, part of the righteous campaign against the plague of Zionism.