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 [...]
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. [...]
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.
A May [...]
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 [...]
Eric Posner’s Wall Street Journal article (June 4, 2010), “The Gaza Blockade and International Law,” examines the legality of Israel’s actions aboard the Mava Marmari “Gaza flotilla.” Posner also debunks legal claims made by Human Rights Watch (HRW) regarding Israel’s policies in Gaza and aboard the ship. NGO Monitor previously documented HRW’s flawed methodology and [...]
In his New York Review of Books essay, “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment” (June 10, 2010), journalist Peter Beinart makes several dubious claims about human rights NGOs. He makes similar statements in defense of Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a subsequent dialogue with Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic). The following is an analysis of [...]
On April 4, 2010, the Sunday Times published a correction to Jonathan Foreman’s article (“Explosive Territory,” March 28) stating that “Marc Garlasco, the former senior military analyst for HRW, was not the only person in the organisation who had military experience; a number of the HRW staff have military expertise.” (Garlasco’s work experience at the [...]
April 18, 2010
To the Editor:
Fares Akram’s article “Hamas Executes Two Accused of Aiding Israel” (April 15, 2010, page A11) prominently features Human Rights Watch (HRW). However, the Times fails to mention Akram’s ongoing professional affiliation with HRW. This conflict of interest is particularly problematic considering that HRW’s reporting on Israel and strident political advocacy are [...]
On April 11, 2010, Human Rights Watch (HRW) published its sixth report on the Gaza War, “Turning a Blind Eye: Impunity for Laws-of-War Violations during the Gaza War.” This is yet another example of HRW’s obsessive and disproportionate focus on Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict, at the expense of the daily human rights violations in [...]
HRW’s “corrections” to Foreman’s exposé raise more questions and create more confusion, while avoiding core issues like credibility, bias against Israel, and the Garlasco gag order.
1) They claim that “a number of the HRW staff have military expertise” – what does this mean regarding credibility of combat analysis? Basic training, some time in front of [...]
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