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| | Robert Bernstein is the founder and former chairman of Human Rights Watch. Bernstein is attacking the organization for “issuing reports on the Israeli-Arab conflict that are helping those who wish to turn Israel into a pariah state.” In addition, he pointed out that HRW has condemned Israel more than any other country.<ref>[http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133954 ‘Human Rights Watch’ Founder Denounces His Group as Anti-Israel, Arutz Sheva, October 20, 2009 ]</ref> | | Robert Bernstein is the founder and former chairman of Human Rights Watch. Bernstein is attacking the organization for “issuing reports on the Israeli-Arab conflict that are helping those who wish to turn Israel into a pariah state.” In addition, he pointed out that HRW has condemned Israel more than any other country.<ref>[http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133954 ‘Human Rights Watch’ Founder Denounces His Group as Anti-Israel, Arutz Sheva, October 20, 2009 ]</ref> |
| | Since 2022, it's managed by | | Since 2022, it's managed by |
| − | Sari Bashi who is a longtime anti-Israel "activist" under the guise of "human rights" slogans. A long promoter of the [[Apartheid slur]]. She is married to a Palestinian and lives with him in Ramallah | + | Sari Bashi who is a longtime anti-Israel "activist" under the guise of "human rights" slogans. A long promoter of the [[Apartheid slur]]. She is married to a Palestinian and lives with him in Ramallah. |
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| | + | . He was found unresponsive in cell after refusing medical treatment since February [2023] arrest). |
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| | + | ([https://twitter.com/OGAride/status/1653573359106678785 May 2, 2023]).</ref> <blockquote> Omar Shakir, hailing Iranian backed Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan (a terrorist who espouses horrific fundamentalist rhetoric) a hero. This says far more about Omar and Human Rights Watch than anything.</blockquote> |
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| | + | ===Shameful responses to the genocidal-"Palestinian" Gaza regime Hamas Oct 7 atrocities=== |
| | + | Shameful responses to the genocidal-[[Palestinian]] [[Gaza]] regime Hamas [[Oct 7 War|Oct 7]] atrocities: |
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| | + | {{Cquote|Human Rights Watch, ostensibly one of the world’s most respected moral organizations, waited more than two days to issue a statement. When it did, the text was not a clear and direct condemnation of this monstrous war crime. Instead, Omar Shakir (HRW’s Israel and Palestine director) framed the unfathomably evil terror attack as a justified reaction to Israeli policies, which, in HRW’s list of slogans, include war crimes[sic], unprecedented repression[sic], unlawful closure of Gaza, inhumane[sic] acts, “domination[sic] by Jewish Israelis over Palestinians” and “crimes against humanity of apartheid[sic] and persecution[sic].” |
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| | + | After Israel’s military entered Gaza to destroy the massive terror infrastructure there, Shakir and Program Director Sari Bashi repeated the slogans and added other accusations, such as “deliberate, indiscriminate[sic], or disproportionate attacks” in numerous media appearances and social media posts. The Israeli victims were mostly erased. |
| | + | <ref>Gerald M. Sreinberg. [https://www.jns.org/behind-the-human-rights-watch-curtain-hate-and-corruption/ Behind the Human Rights Watch curtain: Hate and corruption]. ''JNS''. Dec 4, 2023. |
| | + | Dedicated to the memory of HRW founder Robert Bernstein.</ref>}} |
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| | ===Hypocrisy=== | | ===Hypocrisy=== |