July 28th, 2010 | Category:
Human Rights Watch
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Despite HRW’s disproportionate and obsessive focus on Israel, as documented in NGO Monitor’s systematic research, Hamas officials still feel they are being treated unfairly by the organization. To reassure Hamas that this was not the case, the head of HRW’s Middle East and North Africa Division, Sarah Leah Whitson, paid a visit to Gaza.
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July 26th, 2010 | Category:
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch’s press release “Israel: Withdraw Legislation Punishing Human Rights Activists” (July 25, 2010) presents a long list of complaints against the Israeli government, closely echoing the New Israel Fund (NIF) and NIF-funded political NGOs. HRW’s allegations of “silencing” critics, “threats” to Israel’s “vibrant” civil society, and the “harm” to Israel’s democracy are taken [...]
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July 15th, 2010 | Category:
B'tselem
Editor,
In the article “IDF Recognizes Help From Israeli Human Rights Group,” (Nathan Jeffay, The Forward, July 14, 2010) my detailed assessment of B’Tselem was greatly simplified and highly distorted. As I told Nathan Jeffay in our lengthy discussion of this issue, the IDF Advocate General relied on B’Tselem for the limited task of identifying and [...]
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