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US Human Rights Israel Report relies on NGOs with little credibility

February 26th, 2009 | Category: ACRI, Adalah, B'tselem, Badil, Gisha, Hamoked, Human Rights, Mossawa, NGOs, Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
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The US has released its 2008 Human Rights Report: Israel and the occupied territories February 25, 2009
It quotes the following NGOs which lack credibility: ICAHD, Mossawa, Adalah, B’Tselem, Yesh Din, PHR-I, PCATI, ACRI, HaMoked, Gisha, Peace Now, Ir Amim, Badil, Bimkom and the Arab Association for Human Rights.
See NGO Monitor’s analyses of the US State [...]

Al Haq’s latest lawfare

February 25th, 2009 | Category: Durban Conference
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The absurdity of this case demonstrates that the only goal is PR, not justice or a serious discussion on human rights.  See NGO Monitor’s monograph NGO “Lawfare”: Exploitation of Courts in the Israeli-Arab Conflict.

Al-Haq vs. UK Government, February 23, 2009
Al-Haq, in cooperation with solicitor Phil Shiner of Public Interest Lawyers (PIL), and the support of [...]

Couldn’t have said it better…

February 24th, 2009 | Category: Amnesty International
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No pardon for Amnesty, Jerusalem Post Editorial, Feb. 24, 2009
Yesterday, Amnesty International, the world’s premier “human rights” brand, called for the destruction of Israel. We’re overdramatizing? Were AI to get its way, the UN Security Council would impose a comprehensive arms embargo on the world’s only Jewish state - but not on any of the [...]

Why SHOULD Israel let HRW into Gaza?

February 22nd, 2009 | Category: Human Rights Watch
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Human Rights Watch press release, Israel: End Ban on Human Rights Monitors, February 22, 2009
Israel continues to obstruct independent investigations into allegations of laws of war violations by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Hamas military forces in Gaza by preventing independent human rights monitors from entering Gaza, Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem said today. [...]