Human Rights Watch’s Real Agenda
Allan Dershowitz, professor of law at Harvard has this to say about a once great Human Rights organization “Human Rights Watch” which I have known for a long time is a discredited partisan anti-Semitic organization many of whose former supporters, as Professor Dershowitz explains, “have become alienated from the organization, because of, in the words of one early supporter, ‘their obsessive focus on Israel’.”
When it comes to Israel and its enemies, Human Rights Watch cooks the books about facts, cheats on interviews, and releases predetermined conclusions that are driven more by their ideology than by evidence. These are serious accusations, and they are demonstrably true. Consider the following highly publicized “conclusion” reached by Human Rights Watch about the recent war in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel: “Human Rights Watch found no cases in which Hezbollah deliberately used civilians as shields to protect them from retaliatory IDF attack.” No cases! Anyone who watched even a smattering of TV during the war saw with their own eyes direct evidence of rockets being launched from civilian areas. But not Human Rights Watch. How could an organization, which claims to be objective, have been so demonstrably wrong about so central a point in so important a war? Could it have been an honest mistake? I don’t think so. Human Rights Watch not only failed to interview witnesses who had contrary evidence, it ignored credible news sources, such as the New York Times and the New Yorker.
He goes on to document case after case of eye witnesses who tell the same story that Hezbollah embedded themselves and their weapons among civilian Lebanese populations intentionally endangering the Lebanese civilains while they used them as human shields.
Professor Dershowitz concludes:
How could Human Rights Watch have suppressed this evidence from so many different sources? The only reasonable explanation is that they wanted there to be no evidence of Hezbollah’s tactic of hiding behind civilians. So they cooked the books to make it come out that way. Even after the fighting ended and numerous reports of Hezbollah hiding among civilians were published, Kenneth Roth essentially repeated the demonstrably false conclusions that “in none of those cases was Hizbullah anywhere around at the time of the attack.” So committed is Human Rights Watch to its pre-determined conclusions that it refused to let the facts, as reported by objective sources, get in its way.
Human Rights Watch is a totally partisan anti-Israeli organization. Anybody who quotes any of their “findings” should know better. It is pathetic that a group of people would attempt to portray themselves as an organization comitted to furthering the cause of human right’s violations when their real aim is to create propoganda to turn world opinion against Israel.
Perhaps Kofi Annan will offer Human Rights Watch a seat on the UN Human Rights Council along with China and Cuba.
August 26th, 2006 at 10:32 pm
This was a sharp catch Gregg, thanks.
August 27th, 2006 at 8:58 am
Looking forward to your show tonight! I wonder if Human Rights has made any Complaints about the Fox News people being Kidnapped and FORCED to convert to ISLAM! Since we now have terrorist groups running Lebanon course, I guess they will consider Kidnappers a country especially if they are Muslims! Are they going to complain that the Captives were NOT given Bibles? Doubt that! Were the Captives forced to EAT MUSLIM food? Not a problem…Between the London terror attempts and the kidnapping of these journalists and NOW THEIR FORCED CONVERSION TO ISLAM…This should be a WAKE UP CALL…to EVERYONE..Right and Left and in the Middle! THERE IS NOTHING TRULY UPSETTING THESE TERRORISTS OTHER THAN THEY WANT TO CONVERT THE WORLD TO ISLAM! THE IRANIAN PRESIDENT HAS RELAYED THAT MESSAGE OVER AND OVER AS WELL…and it seems to be Scoffed at by the LEFTIES…Sadly they WILL neither have the strength Nor desire to DEFEND “their” way of LIFE..when they wake up one morning with a Fatwa facing them..IT WILL BE TOO LATE! With fanatics like the Terrorists..no matter how much you Help their cause and HATE BUSH the Left will LOSE BIG! They must think they will get apass..FAT CHANCE! the Hamaas folks sure realized how the Kidnappings in Gaza have hurt their PR!
August 31st, 2006 at 7:45 pm
Why are conservatives so obsessed with liberals. None of the liberals I know are fixated on the right, and in fact, find the subject fairly boring.
Why would anyone devote 5 years of their lives to talking to liberals?
I don’t get it.