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Robert N...meet Robert B
As in Robert Bernstein, the founder of Human Rights Watch, an organization he's recently denounced for being explicitly "anti-Isreal."

http://volokh.com/2009/10/20/bernstein-r...hts-watch/

Quote:I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group’s critics….

When I stepped aside in 1998, Human Rights Watch was active in 70 countries, most of them closed societies. Now the organization, with increasing frequency, casts aside its important distinction between open and closed societies.

Nowhere is this more evident than in its work in the Middle East. The region is populated by authoritarian regimes with appalling human rights records. Yet in recent years Human Rights Watch has written far more condemnations of Israel for violations of international law than of any other country in the region….

Meanwhile, the Arab and Iranian regimes rule over some 350 million people, and most remain brutal, closed and autocratic, permitting little or no internal dissent. The plight of their citizens who would most benefit from the kind of attention a large and well-financed international human rights organization can provide is being ignored as Human Rights Watch’s Middle East division prepares report after report on Israel.

Human Rights Watch has lost critical perspective on a conflict in which Israel has been repeatedly attacked by Hamas and Hezbollah, organizations that go after Israeli citizens and use their own people as human shields….

Leaders of Human Rights Watch know that Hamas and Hezbollah chose to wage war from densely populated areas, deliberately transforming neighborhoods into battlefields. They know that more and better arms are flowing into both Gaza and Lebanon and are poised to strike again. And they know that this militancy continues to deprive Palestinians of any chance for the peaceful and productive life they deserve. Yet Israel, the repeated victim of aggression, faces the brunt of Human Rights Watch’s criticism.

And if that's too subtle for you, check this out

Quote:A delegation from Human Rights Watch was recently in Saudi Arabia. To investigate the mistreatment of women under Saudi Law? To campaign for the rights of homosexuals, subject to the death penalty in Saudi Arabia? To protest the lack of religious freedom in the Saudi Kingdom? To issue a report on Saudi political prisoners?

No, no, no, and no. The delegation arrived to raise money from wealthy Saudis by highlighting HRW's demonization of Israel. An HRW spokesperson, Sarah Leah Whitson, highlighted HRW's battles with "pro-Israel pressure groups in the US, the European Union and the United Nations." (Was Ms. Whitson required to wear a burkha, or are exceptions made for visiting anti-Israel "human rights" activists"? Driving a car, no doubt, was out of the question.)

Apparently, Ms. Whitson found no time to criticize Saudi Arabia's abysmal human rights record. But never fear, HRW "recently called on the Kingdom to do more to protect the human rights of domestic workers.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124528343805525561.html
10-21-2009 07:39 AM
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Liberalism is a mental disorder. RobertN proves that on a daily basis.
10-21-2009 07:42 AM
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(10-21-2009 07:42 AM)Rebel Wrote:  Liberalism is a mental disorder.

I think it was that great philosopher Ferris Bueller who said:

Quote:Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, "I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me." Good point there. After all, he was the walrus.
10-21-2009 07:55 AM
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HRW fought the good fight for a while of being critical of potential abuses while attempting to be fair - or at least providing the facade of such an attempt. There is a place in the world for such an (unbiased) organization, but they seem to inevitably drift into propaganda tools for Islamists.
10-21-2009 11:12 AM
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More do gooders who aren't worth a $it.
10-21-2009 11:18 AM
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(10-21-2009 11:18 AM)NIU05 Wrote:  More do gooders who aren't worth a $it.

at what point do we get to call Do Gooders what they actually are in the real world? "Do Badders" of course
10-21-2009 11:41 AM
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