January 21st, 2008 | Category:
Human Rights,
Human Rights Watch,
Amnesty International,
Lebanon War 2006
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Justin Elliott at Mother Jones blog posted questions that five experts would ask the US Presidential candidates if given the chance.
One of the experts, Dr. Stephen Zunes posed the question:
For Senator Clinton. During the 2006 war in Lebanon, you co-sponsored a resolution condemning Hezbollah for its alleged use of “human shields.” Since then, detailed on-the-ground […]
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October 28th, 2007 | Category:
Human Rights Watch,
Lebanon War 2006
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October 28, 2007 Today’s Ha’aretz English edition (October 28 2007) included Ken Roth’s latest salvo regarding the 2006 Lebanon War. During and after the war, Roth and Human Rights Watch, which he heads, were central in the political assault on Israel, publishing 30 statements, opeds, and reports — almost all condemning the Israeli response to […]
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October 17th, 2007 | Category:
Human Rights,
Lebanon War 2006,
Jenin,
NGOs,
Palestinian-Israeli Peace NGO Forum
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NGO attempts to defile Israel’s moral credibility is a focus of Noah Pollack’s piece in the most recent issue of Azure, a quarterly journal published in English and Hebrew by the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. According to Pollack, a “a dominant culture of opinion shared by human rights organizations, NGOs, Middle East Studies departments and […]
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August 1st, 2007 | Category:
Human Rights,
Human Rights Watch,
Lebanon War 2006
HRW has done little reporting in real time on unspeakable abuses of human rights in several African countries. One notable example is the Central African Republic (CAR) - a crisis so vicious and bloody, that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has initiated proceedings. The ICC notes that “sexual violence appears to have been a central […]
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July 2nd, 2007 | Category:
Durban Conference,
Human Rights,
Human Rights Watch,
Lebanon War 2006,
UN
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In an oped “A Shadow on the Human Rights Movement” published in the Washington Post on June 25, Jackson Diehl, showed that NGO Monitor’s message is getting through. Diehl, a senior journalist who cannot be accused of being soft on Israel, condemned the hypocrisy of the UN Human Rights Council and NGOs that are part […]
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June 18th, 2007 | Category:
Lebanon War 2006,
UN,
NGOs,
Adalah,
Hamoked,
ACRI,
New Israel Fund
In the past few months, former head of the IDC-Herzilya and current member of Knesset, Professor Amnon Rubinstein, published two articles calling into question the intentions and legitimacy of claims made by the politicized NGOs the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and Adalah.
Rubinstein’s first article, published in the Jerusalem Post on April 17, […]
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May 31st, 2007 | Category:
Human Rights,
Amnesty International,
Lebanon War 2006
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On May 21, 2007, NGO Monitor released an analysis of Amnesty International’s 2006 reporting on the Middle East. The analysis showed that Amnesty issued more significant publications on Israel than any other Middle Eastern country and even more than on the mass killings in Sudan. NGO Monitor’s findings were confirmed by […]
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