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Human Rights Watch crosses the line with latest attack on Israel The organization has now gone beyond anti-Semitism. (May 5, 2021 / JNS) Anti-Semitism may be the world’s oldest hatred but it’s still a long way from death’s door. What I find particularly distressing, if not surprising, is to see self-proclaimed human rights activists demonizing the world’s most frequently threatened Jewish community. I’m speaking, of course, about Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental—but not non-ideological—organization that has just published a 213-page report, “A Threshold Crossed,” decl...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sarah Margon, up for a top human rights role at the State Department, is the latest Biden nominee to face fierce pushback from conservatives, among them the Republican Jewish Coalition. But at least one prominent Jewish Republican is backing Margon’s nomination. Elliott Abrams, a longtime foreign policy maven with experience in a number of Republican administrations, most recently under former President Donald Trump, has come to her defense. Abrams, responding Tuesday to a query from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, said he understood why one of Margon’s ex-employers, H...

The writer is Co-Editor, Jadaliyya, www.jadaliyya.com, an independent ezine produced by the Arab Studies Institute based in Washington DC/Beirut Israeli authorities are committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution, Human Rights Watch said in a report released April 27. The finding is based on an overarching Israeli government policy to maintain the domination by Jewish Israelis over Palestinians and grave abuses committed against Palestinians living in the occupied territory, including East Jerusalem. Credit: Human Rights Watch (HRW) THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Apr 30 2021 ...

'Canceling' Human Rights | Opinion On 4/30/21 at 6:00 AM EDT For those who have been paying attention, the recent development of Human Rights Watch (HRW) attempting to "cancel" Israel as an "apartheid state" is not at all surprising. It is merely another manifestation of the war waged on the nation-state of the Jewish people—an ancestral homeland to which an indigenous people returned after millennia of exile and persecution, itself a direct result of statelessness. It is a war of words, to which international law, human rights and their institutions have been summoned and ...

Photo: AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed WITH the US on Wednesday voicing disagreement with Human Rights Watch (HRW)’s allegation that Israel is committing “apartheid” against the Palestinians, Australian Jewish leaders say its report is a “textbook example of a biased organisation knowing what conclusion it wants to reach and then writing a report to substantiate it”. In a report on Tuesday, HRW said that Israel is “committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution,” saying Israel had an “overarching” policy to “maintain the domination of Jewish Israelis over Pale...