August 29th, 2010 | Category:
Human Rights Watch
Why has Hamas failed to conduct investigations into massive violations of human rights during the 2009 Gaza war? Human Rights Watch Senior Researcher Fred Abrahams blames the “campaign waged by countries like the United States and Israel to deny the group legitimacy.” As Abrahams told the Forward, “In its stance towards Hamas, the U.N. is [...]
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August 22nd, 2010 | Category:
Human Rights Watch
Reposted from Elder of Ziyon:
The New York Times mentions the new Lebanese law allowing Palestinian Arabs some new rights to employment - but notes that this supposed improvement is, in many way, only on paper:
The law lifts restrictions on Palestinians’ employment in the formal labor market, though they would still be officially treated as foreigners. [...]
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August 4th, 2010 | Category:
B'tselem
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In email correspondence (July 27, 2010), B’Tselem informed NGO Monitor that Mitchell Plitnick is no longer employed by the organization. (B’Tselem’s email did not indicate when he left; Plitnick’s blog indicates that this probably took place prior to June 15, 2010.) Plitnick was the first director of B’Tselem’s Washington, DC office, which opened in September [...]
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August 2nd, 2010 | Category:
NGO Monitor
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To the editor:
As an academic, Prof. David Newman’s attack on NGO Monitor was both wrong and irrelevant to the debate on politics in the university (”Left and right at the lectern,” Haaretz, July 30, 2010). NGO Monitor is a research organization focusing on NGOs (not universities), and if Newman does not like the research and [...]
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