Category: Human Rights Watch

HRW “sockpuppets” and Akiva Eldar vs. NGO Monitor: Connecting the dots
On February 23, 2010, Akiva Eldar, a reporter for Haaretz, emailed NGO Monitor with a number of “questions” allegedly related to compliance with Israel’s Amuta (non-profit) laws. The questions appeared to be part of a fishing expedition designed to find some mud in order [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Taken from UNHRC webcast:
MRAP (France):
“Despite the dozens of resolutions adopted by various UN bodies condemning the actions of the state of Israel, colonial occupation follows the destruction, massacres follow the abuses, and the international law is constantly trampled.”
FIDH, PCHR (Raji Sourani) (Norway, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, European Union):
“The smell of death and destruction [...]

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In response to Robert Bernstein’s shattering October 20 New York Times Oped that HRW places disproportionate focus on Israel, members of HRW’s board responded that
“Human Rights Watch does not devote more time and energy to Israel than to other countries in the region, or in the world. We’ve produced more than 1,700 reports, letters, news [...]

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On October 13, Garlasco enlisted his good buddy at Esquire, John Richardson, to write a self-serving puff piece about how Garlasco is one of the “bravest” and “effective” investigators at Human Rights Watch, and that NGO Monitor is out to “personally destroy” a “good man.”
Garlasco is doing a pretty good job destroying himself all on [...]

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“Israel is Responsible for Supplying Hamas students with Textbooks” –  Including Holocaust denial; promotion of attacks on civilians; denying the legitimacy of Israel’s existence?
HRW and Sarah Leah Whitson (head of the Middle East division) have again issued a  ridiculous condemnation against Israel (October 9).  This time, the organization, whose Middle East division is run by [...]

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As Nixon taught us, the cover-up is often worse than the original crime. So for those of us following the HRW-Saudi cover up campaign, here is a contribution from Ken Roth, quoted on Human Rights Watch and Its Saudi Donors (July 22). Roth told the Forward that the quotes from the dinner regarding “pro-Israel pressure groups” [...]

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On August 6 2009, Human Rights Watch (HRW) belatedly released their report (“Rockets From Gaza”) on Hamas’ rocket barrages aimed at Israel’s civilian population. HRW accuses Hamas members of war crimes and acknowledges the “psychological toll of years of rocket attacks” on Israelis. This publication, which largely repeats the International Crisis Group’s report of April [...]

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