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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...
U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Elan Carr speaks at the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey on July 23, 2019, on his work within the U.S. State Department in combating anti-Semitism around the world. Credit: Zack DiGregorio/Office of U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.).

Report: State Department weighs designating human-rights groups ‘anti-Semitic’

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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...
Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Suddenly, Human Rights Watch discovers anti-Semitism

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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...
Omar Shakir, the New York-based rights group's Israel-Palestine director, speaks during a press conference at a Jerusalem hotel ahead of his expulsion from Israel, Nov. 24, 2019. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Israel deports Human Rights Watch director Omar Shakir for advocating BDS

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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...
Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine Director Omar Shakir. Credit: Human Rights Watch.

Supreme Court rules Israel can deport Human Rights Watch official

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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...