For Ken Roth and Human Rights Watch (HRW), the new year has begun much as the previous one ended – with exposure of another false accusation against Israel. In a vitriolic op-ed published on December 30 in the IPS’s online publication Foreign Policy in Focus, and reproduced widely, Roth accused Israel of “a campaign to [...]
Here is another news release that HRW should have written, but did not: “Iran /Syria: Investigate Alleged Arms Shipment” or “Hezbollah: Examine Claims of Arms Transfer from Iran.” But like Iran, Lebanon and Hezbollah, HRW had no comment on the arms shipment that Israel captured, carrying at least 3,000 deadly missiles.
The hundreds of tons of weaponry aboard [...]
While Human Rights Watch (HRW), headed by Kenneth Roth, attempts to defend itself from the powerful critique levelled by founder Robert Bernstein in the New York Times, Helena Cobban — on the board of HRW’s Middle East and North Africa division — added further evidence of total moral collapse.
In her October 22 posting, Cobban attacked Bernstein [...]
Human Rights Watch and Its Saudi Donors, The Forward, July 22, 2009
Comment: Gerald Steinberg — NGO Monitor:
HRW and its hard-core defenders claim that the NGO superpower does not target Israel, does not use double standards, and should be immune from independent investigation. For example, this article notes “a recent review by the news agency Inter [...]
June 18, 2009
Uriel,
I have no objection to being criticized, just as I expect NGOs and their funders, like NIF, to accept the legitimacy of criticism and the importance of informed public debate on these important issues. However, I do think that your blog item was unfair and inaccurate, and that you seem to be targeting [...]
Given the heavy dependence by the UN Inquiry on the Gaza War on NGO reports and testimonies, NGO Monitor submitted a report to the commission led by Judge Richard Goldstone. NGO Monitor provided fact sheets on the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), Al Mezan, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW). NGO Monitor’s report [...]
10 June 2009
Editor
Jerusalem Post
In his eagerness to libel me and NGO Monitor’s research, Larry Garber, CEO of New Israel Fund has again misread the text. (‘Many Narratives, Not Just One’, June 7 2009).
My article on the fictitious narrative that is used by many NGOs to demonize Israel did not endorse the “Nakba Law”. (‘Taking Back [...]
Human Rights Watch, which was largely created and funded by Jewish donors to promote traditional human rights concerns, is now cooperating and seeking funding from the leaders of Saudi Arabia – one of the major violators of the norms that HRW claims to promote. This is consistent with HRW’s central role in the demonization of [...]
Dear Editor,
Kobi Ben-Simhon’s insightful assessment of the campaign to free Gilad Shalit, (‘Lost Cause’ , 24 April) overlooked an important contributing factor in the failure to yet bring Shalit home.
As Shalit’s basic rights continue to be denied, the virtual silence of human rights NGOs on the issue is striking. As reported by NGO Monitor, international [...]
The absence of an official NGO Forum at the Durban Review Conference has led politicized NGOs to take their anti-Israel message to the streets of Geneva with a slew of parallel events set to take place before and during the conference.
Pro-Israel activists set to do battle at Durban II, Michael J. Jordan, JTA, April 6, [...]
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