Tag: Human Rights Watch
Critics call HRW report: ‘Culmination of decades of obsessive attacks against Israel’
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...
Report: State Department weighs designating human-rights groups ‘anti-Semitic’
U.S. President Donald Trump may soon declare that several prominent international NGOs, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam are, in fact, anti-Semitic organizations, Politico reported on Thursday.
Citing sources familiar with the issue, the report...
Suddenly, Human Rights Watch discovers anti-Semitism
The drumbeat of anti-Semitism has grown louder and more assured over the last two decades. Yet it’s only with the resurgence of far right activism in the last five years or so that mainstream...
Israel deports Human Rights Watch director Omar Shakir for advocating BDS
Human Rights Watch’s Israel-Palestine director will be deported under Israel’s anti-BDS law for promoting a boycott of the Jewish state.
Omar Shakir, a U.S. citizen, was ordered to leave the country after Israel’s Supreme Court...
Supreme Court rules Israel can deport Human Rights Watch official
Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine director Omar Shakir may be deported, upholding a district court ruling that found him guilty of promoting anti-Israel boycotts.
According to a ruling handed...