Friday, April 30, 2010
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.
NGO Monitor: HRW's Civil War continued - 'In Benjamin Birnbaum's exposé on HRW ("Minority Report: Human Rights Watch fights a civil war over Israel," The New Republic, April 27, 2010), Program Director Iain Levine acknowledges that many HRW staff members come from "solidarity backgrounds." But, he adamantly claims, "when they come to the door of this organization, they park those things behind." Similarly, in her response to the article, board member and staunch supporter of Kenneth Roth, Kathleen Peratis asserts that "There is no bias against Israel at Human Rights Watch." In fact, the evidence plainly shows that both Levine and Peratis are wrong: HRW's staff use the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) division as a platform for bias, at the expense of human rights principles...'
