Monday, August 3, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Mere Rhetoric: Human Rights Watch Shill Has Meltdown - Rants About "Sharanskys Of The World," Dares Critics To Find "One Incident" Of HRW Bias (UPDATED: Nasrallah Bragged About Using Human Shields) - 'First of all, the main criticism of Human Rights Watch isn't that they fabricate anti-Israel propaganda. Of course that's true and it's revelatory to see this overcompensating tool wet her pants over it - more on that below - but it's not the main criticism. The biggest problem with HRW is that they painstakingly detail every minute Israeli action while ignoring literal atrocities elsewhere in the world. Institutionally they're a committed anti-Israel outlet masquerading as an objective human rights organization. Personally many of their field investigators seem clinically obsessed with the Jewish State. And all of that is suspicious....' [NGO Monitor is really starting to drive these people over the edge. Keep it up.]
Almost pitiable. Almost.
Gerald Steinberg of NGO Monitor comments, excerpt:
"[But since the Cold War] the world has changed, and HRW officials and their die-hard supporters are today's ideological dinosaurs. When the Cold War ended, HRW and its London-based twin - Amnesty International - adjusted their agendas to maintain influence and donations. They redefined themselves by claiming expertise they do not have on international law in armed conflicts, and their obsessive condemnations of Israel endeared them to the UN, while keeping HRW in the headlines. They were embraced by the anti-Zionist post-colonialists who maintain the flame and adrenalin in the Left-Right battles that raged during the Cold War."
It's particularly telling that the more recent defenders of HRW's and AI's anti-Israel campaigns - including using that motif for fund-raising efforts, even within Saudi Arabia - are resorting to "right wing echo chamber" smears. Pitiable, almost.
h/t Robin Shephard