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Raoul Christensen's avatar

Under Roth's tenure, HRW was always being criticized for its "subjectivity" re: the zionist entity. It seems nothing has changed and this current expose, shows the depths of the zionist infiltration, of HRW.

Jazzme's avatar

where there is power Mossad is there to impede critisism of the zionist apartheid genocidal state called Israel.

dboing dboing's avatar

so a blind spot? is that hypothesis or where to find clues or evidence to support that?

The critics you mention maybe. so I can assess myself the confidence of such hypothesis?

I waste my time with such prudence, nothing personal. I have been systematically fooled and might have been made skiddy. cat and water something...

Dorsey Gardner's avatar

Time for HRW to go out of business. HRW is clearly anti-humanitarian!

NIM's avatar

HRW is now replaced by (Demon)DRW, that’s beyond disgusting 🤮

Tom Schwoegler's avatar

Yet another case of the coverup compounding the crime. And why my go-to source (along Drop Site) has been Francesca Albanese.

MaryAnne's avatar

Once again, Israel is treated as a sacred cow.

dboing dboing's avatar

More and more disillusionment about past reliable sources of information or the belief of it... how? Can all our sources of information and freedom of communication have been all corrupted?

Assuming they might not have been from the start. Which I still want to consider, as I have noticed over the years that the political drifts and ideas have shifted to less sustainable democratic ideals through the whole political spectrum, swallowing the new political economy religion of trickle-down magic and free market illusion. The corruption creep up there is easier to model. But how do the other things also get invisibly shifted?

marc sapir's avatar

Caveat: I can not back up this comment with evidence. It's based upon very old material that I am not able to call up. My conclusions may be wrong. But the current facts are not.

Many years ago I was told that HRW was an unreliable Human Rights organization because of close political and financial ties to the Foreign Affairs Council. The Foreign Affairs Council is chock full of important former US government diplomats, plenty with CIA ties who are biased in support maintaining US power in the world at all costs. Since that time I have avoided depending upon HRW sreports though some seemed reasonable. From this Drop Site report it seems that there were many principled people such as the two who resigned in protest working there. Another possibility is that the old info I received was correct but that the organizational leadership tried to maintain legitimacy and consistency by not straying too far off the truthful track. A current shift toward permissive impunity by HRC would be consistent with how the Democratic Party has been closely tied to Israel as a surrogate in the ME region while trying to appear as an "honest broker" but has now been replaced by Trump's all out unconcealed and unapologetic support for the apartheid and genocidal terrorism of Israel.

In either case it's ridiculously ludicrous for the new HRW director to claim that he didn't want to come in now and have to ride out a weakly evidenced report when what he's done is flagrantly undermine whatever international credibility HRW had built up, as well has his own. Whether my older info was right or not, HRW should not now be trusted and the controversy itself is plainly immoral and fraudulent because concern over whether the criminal violation of denial of right of return to millions of Palestine is technically a "crime against humanity" or just a violation of UN and international law causing vast suffering has been used prevent pointing out (once again) that Israel is nothing more or or less than a rogue ethno-terror state that should be expelled from the UN for its apartheid and genocide. HRW should be pointing out how Israel's genocide implicates the US in war crimes and crimes against humanity (now with another 6.6 billion dollars for killing civilians).

Michelle Celarier's avatar

Since this decision comes out of nowhere, I suspect HRW was either threatened with or afraid of being labeled a terrorist organization, and put under sanctions by the US. That would make it almost impossible to survive. Bank accounts frozen, no donations possible. Think of what happened to the ICC and Francesca Albanese. Israel has been working hard to destroy HRW