[throwaway052422]

Conversely, I've seen many people in the U.S. argue that terrorist attacks from extremists justified a harsh national security response when the attacks happen to countries like the United States or Israel. Then these same people completely ignore the numerous terrorist attacks from extremists that China has faced[1], and say a strong national security response is completely unjustified.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_China#Terrorist_i...

[ciphol]

Nobody argues that attacks on the US or Israel justify the US or Israel putting their Muslim population into camps like China does.

[throwaway052422]

Many neutral observers agree that Gaza has been turned into a defacto open air concentration camp, a small plot of land that Israel and Egypt keep people and supplies from freely moving about, and assert military control over. Naturally, people sympathetic to the government will try to paint it in a better light, but the same is true with Xinjiang.

Things are never 100% the same, so people can always argue "When _I_ do it it's different." For instance, people in Xinjiang are Chinese citizens, and when they leave the camps they can go anywhere in China, and have the same legal rights. People in Gaza, conversely, are supposed to be members for life, with restricted rights, and this is to be a generational condition (many children are stuck in Gaza as well).