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Longtime [[BDS]]r racist [[Omar Shakir]] has abused his position for malicious propaganda and resigned in Feb 2026, upset, anti Usrael HRW wasn't extremist enough.
Longtime [[BDS]]r racist [[Omar Shakir]] has abused his position for malicious propaganda and resigned in Feb 2026, upset, anti Usrael HRW wasn't extremist enough.
'''On racist Omar Shakir's push for the Apartheid slur'''
In media watchdog, Alex Safian slammed<ref>[https://www.camera.org/article/human-rights-watch-report-maligns-israel-with-lies-on-top-of-lies/ Human Rights Watch Report Maligns Israel with Lies on Top of Lies].
By: Alex Safian, PhD. ''CAMERA.'' April 27, 2021.</ref> Omar Shakir's Human Rights Watch (HRW) for its 2021 report, "A Threshold Crossed...", which used the apartheid slur. Safian points out that the "report" repeats false and previously debunked claims and reflects longstanding anti-Israel bias within the organization.
The article highlights the past statements and actions of Joe Stork, a former senior HRW official, asserting that his history of anti-Israel rhetoric and support for Palestinian militancy demonstrates institutional prejudice. Safian reminds this bias shapes HRW’s framing of Israeli policies.
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Unfortunately, the organization has a long history of anti-Israel agitation and propaganda, perhaps best illustrated by the facts about Joe Stork, who served for many years as HRW’s Deputy Director of Middle East issues. Before being hired by HRW, Stork openly supported Palestinian terror attacks against Jewish civilians, and opposed any and all peace treaties between Israel and Arab states.
Stork even traveled to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq for a conference on “Zionism and Racism.” His very appearance at a conference sponsored by the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein should have disqualified him from working for any human rights group, but apparently that’s not how HRW saw it.
At the conference Saddam Hussein himself could not have outdone Stork, whose presentation referred to the “Zionist colonization of Palestine,” the “Zionist settler-colonial enterprise,” the “infamous Balfour declaration,” and the “Zionist theft of the property and productive resources.”
Analyzing Israel’s victory in the 1967 War, Stork suggested what would be needed for the Arab states to reverse the outcome and destroy Israel:
There were, to be sure, many contributing factors to this devastating defeat, and it would be a mistake to overlook, for example, the degree of imperialist collusion that lay behind the Israeli blitzkrieg. But the single most important cause lay with the failure of the regimes in question to mobilize their societies for the kind of protracted struggle that is critical for the liberation of Palestine. … the surplus extracted from the masses was used to construct a military machine that was completely inadequate to the task of liberating Palestine …
Since he is speaking here of the 1967 war, which triggered Israel’s presence in the West Bank and Gaza, it is clear that Stork means by the “liberation of Palestine” the destruction of Israel.
Not surprisingly then, Stork even opposes peace talks and negotiations with Israel:
One thing that is clear from this survey, but which has been conveniently shelved by the Arab regimes today, is that the struggle against Zionism can only be won by struggling against imperialism, not by striking deals with future Kissingers.
There’s much more to Joe Stork’s anti-Israel fanaticism – for details see Joe Stork, Senior Human Rights Watch Staffer, Supported Violence against Jews and Israel’s Destruction. But apparently anti-Israel fanaticism was exactly what Human Rights Watch wanted because the organization kept Stork on even after his appalling record was publicly exposed.</blockquote>
Safian further points out that the report omits key context, particularly Palestinian suicide bombings that led to the construction of Israel’s security barrier. He contends that HRW ignores terrorism to portray Israeli security measures as unjustified.
On water access, Safian dismantles HRW’s claims of discriminatory allocation, arguing that Palestinian water usage has increased over time and that Israel provides substantial water supplies to the West Bank, Gaza, and neighboring countries. He also challenges the assertion that Israelis consume disproportionately more water, claiming that differences are largely due to desalination and wastewater recycling.
Regarding Israel’s Law of Return, Safian reminds it as comparable to citizenship policies in other democracies and permissible under international law. He rejects HRW’s characterization of the law as discriminatory.
On land issues, he points out that much of the land HRW describes as confiscated was historically state-owned under Ottoman and British rule, not privately owned by Palestinians. He also maintains that Israel established compensation mechanisms for absentee property claims.
Concluding that HRW’s "report" is fundamentally flawed, politically motivated, and reflective of anti-Israel hostility rather than objective human rights analysis.
From the NGO Monitor Nov 2022:
{{Cquote|<ref>[https://ngo-monitor.org/reports/threshold-crossed-hrw-apartheid/ A Threshold Crossed: Documenting HRW’S “Apartheid” Fabrications]. A Threshold Crossed: Documenting HRW’S “Apartheid” Fabrications. NGO Monitor. 1 Nov 2022. [https://ngo-monitor.org/pdf/ThresholdCrossed_2022.pdf PDF]
[[NGO Monitor]]. November 30, 2022.</ref>
In April 2021, Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) released a 217-page publication titled “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution.” HRW asserted that Israel is an apartheid state both within its pre-1967 territory as well as in the West Bank and Gaza. The title of the report and its contents assert that recent events and actions have created a situation where Israel has “crossed a threshold” into apartheid. The fact that HRW and other NGOs have campaigned intensively to promote the apartheid label for more than 20 years is not mentioned. HRW’s goal is clear, as evidenced by the report’s narrative and recommendations: end the existence of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, allow all Palestinians worldwide to freely enter Israel, open the borders between Israel and Gaza and the West Bank, and convert the area into a Palestinian majority state.
As documented below in great detail, the HRW publication is fundamentally flawed, using lies, distortions, omissions, and blatant double standards to construct a fraudulent and libelous narrative demonizing Israel. A careful examination of the text shows that HRW conducted almost no primary research. Rather, the text is bloated with cut-and-paste phrases, and quotes and conclusions taken from third-party sources – notably, other political NGOs participating in the same “apartheid” campaign against Israel. In fact, more than half of all the citations in the report are from these NGOs. HRW’s references are glaringly thin on primary documents, such as official Israeli government reports and statistics, Palestinian documents, court documents, Knesset transcripts, and interviews from leading officials, and much of the data is outdated, often well over a decade old. The omissions are even more egregious than the errors and misrepresentations, rendering HRW’s report as nothing more than propaganda.
In preparing this report, we examined and critically assessed every line of HRW’s publication and closely read the sources and citations provided. We divided the material into four categories: Errors, Misrepresentations, Omissions, and Double Standards. This systematic review conclusively shows, contrary to HRW’s claims, that the allegations of Israeli “apartheid” have no substance or merit.}}
Purpose and Context
NGO Monitor prepared this 168-page rebuttal to Human Rights Watch’s 2021 report “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid[sic] and Persecution.”
HRW’s original report argued that Israeli policies toward Palestinians inside Israel and in the occupied territories meet the legal definitions of the crimes of apartheid and persecution under international law.
Highlights of the NGO Monitor Report
Fundamental Flaws: NGO Monitor argues that HRW’s report is deeply flawed, asserting it is built on lies, distortions, omissions, and double standards rather than solid research.
Lack of Primary Evidence: According to the critique, HRW’s analysis relies heavily on secondary sources—largely other NGOs—while using few primary documents (e.g., official statistics, government documents, court records). Much cited data is said to be outdated.
Systematic Review: NGO Monitor systematically categorises what it considers problems in the HRW report into four buckets: errors, misrepresentations, omissions, and double standards. These are claimed to undermine the core apartheid allegation.
Political Motive: The rebuttal portrays the HRW report not as neutral human rights research but as part of a coordinated campaign to delegitimise the State of Israel— including recommendations that would, in NGO Monitor’s view, challenge Israel’s identity as a Jewish nation-state and advocate open borders and a single Palestinian-majority state.
Conclusion of the Rebuttal:
NGO Monitor concludes that HRW’s apartheid allegations “have no substance or merit,” characterising the original report as propaganda rather than rigorous analysis.
The ridiculous liar Sari Bashi<ref>[https://x.com/GLZRadio/status/1386935797539123200 GLZ@GLZRadio] Apr 22, 2021 ([https://archive.ph/CnADU])</ref>:
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Attorney Shari Bashi, consultant to Human Rights Watch, to @razibarcay
"We are not saying that Israel is an apartheid state - but rather that the authorities are working to preserve Israel's control over the Palestinians in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea."</blockquote>
A gross lie Sati Bashi promoted during Covid 19.<ref>[https://www.jns.org/why-nicholas-kristof-is-still-wrong-on-israel-and-hamas/ Why Nicholas Kristof is (still) wrong on Israel and Hamas]. ''JNS''
6 Jun 2021 — 'Sari Bashi, an anti-Israel activist who recently brazenly lied to readers about Israel's vaccination campaign...'</ref>
In 2021, she "brazenly lied to readers about Israel's vaccination campaign."
And 9 days after the 'Palestinian' genocidal [[Oct 7 War]] atrocities, Sari Bashi claimed that evacuating Gazams [to save them from bombardment] was "terrorism."<ref>[https://www.camera.org/article/human-rights-watch-on-msnbc-urging-civilians-to-evacuate-is-terrorism Human Rights Watch on MSNBC: Urging Civilians to Evacuate is Terrorism]. By: David Litman. CAMERA. October 16, 2023</ref>
====Shameful responses to the genocidal-"Palestinian" Gaza regime Hamas Oct 7 atrocities====
====Shameful responses to the genocidal-"Palestinian" Gaza regime Hamas Oct 7 atrocities====