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Human Rights Watch finds Hamas guilty of war crimes on Oct. 7

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Human Rights Watch, an NGO better known for its anti-Israel positions, broke form on Wednesday to release a report documenting war crimes committed on Oct. 7. The goal of the report, “Palestinian Armed Groups’ October...
Palestinian journalist Said Arikat at a U.S. State Department press briefing on June 15, 2023. Credit: YouTube screenshot.

Israel a ‘serial bomber of civilian places,’ reporter says at State Department briefing

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Said Arikat, Washington bureau chief of Al-Quds, has a long history of slandering Israel at U.S. State Department press briefings. On June 15, he began by posing a question about Amnesty International calling for the International Criminal Court to...
Tirana Hassan. Credit: Allison HRW via Wikimedia Commons.

New executive director of Human Rights Watch has anti-Israel history

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Human Rights Watch, an NGO with a history of anti-Israel advocacy, announced its interim executive director Tirana Hassan will now hold the position permanently. “Different leader, same antisemitic, Israel-obsessed, Jew-hating,” Arsen Ostrovsky, CEO of the...
U.S. President Joe Biden. Source: Twitter/@POTUS.

Anti-Israel activist withdraws nomination for assistant secretary of state

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Sarah Margon has withdrawn her nomination for assistant secretary of state for democracy, human Rights and labor, following Republican pushback against her anti-Israel record at Human Rights Watch (HRW) and George Soros’ Open Society...
Secretary-General of Amnesty International Agnès Callamard attends a press conference in eastern Jerusalem on Feb. 1, 2022. Photo by Flash90.

NGO Monitor report debunks Israel apartheid claims, places Amnesty International ‘on the defensive’

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A new report by NGO Monitor debunks the accusation of apartheid against Israel and assesses whether apartheid, as previously defined, is applicable to Israel and territories under its military administration. This new report, titled “Neo-Orientalism: Deconstructing Claims...

Human Rights Watch’s new report is a dud

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Human Rights Watch has just published a new report supposedly examining Israel’s conduct during its 11-day war with Hamas in May, and it comes as little surprise that their conclusion is that Israel committed war crimes. Little...
Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth. Source: Screenshot.

The ‘right’ way to be anti-Semitic, according to Human Rights Watch

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Only a generously funded, celebrity-endorsed NGO utterly convinced of its own rectitude would have the chutzpah to proffer advice on combating anti-Semitism, just weeks after it labeled the world’s sole Jewish state as the...
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Human Rights Watch crosses the line with latest attack on Israel

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Anti-Semitism may be the world’s oldest hatred, but it’s still a long way from death’s door. What I find particularly distressing, if not surprising, is to see self-proclaimed human rights activists demonizing the world’s...
Sarah Margon. Source: Screenshot.

RJC: Biden nominee with anti-Israel ties ‘makes mockery’ of human rights

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The Republican Jewish Coalition is urging senators to reject the nomination of Sarah Margon to a senior State Department post over her anti-Israel, pro-BDS history. Margon, who has been nominated by the Biden administration to...
The Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room of the Palace of Nations, in Geneva. The room is the meeting place of the U.N. Human Rights Council. Credit: Ludovic Courtès via Wikimedia Commons.

Critics call HRW report: ‘Culmination of decades of obsessive attacks against Israel’

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The Israeli government and watchdog group NGO Monitor criticized a forthcoming report from Human Rights Watch that accuses Israel of apartheid and calls for an international legal campaign against it. On Tuesday, Human Rights Watch...