Posted on 04/27/2021 11:04:26 AM PDT by Olog-hai
We need to see who HRW has had as their director, key staff, etc. If I remember correctly, Joe Volk, from the marxist American Friends Service Committee, was one of their earliest Marxist “hires” which shifted HRW to the Far Left/Anti-Israel camp.
Let’s see who I can spot in their leadership. Give me a few minutes.
Additional infor on HRW and correction.
Joe Volk WAS NOT a HRW researcher. It was Joe Stork, of the SDS-created “MERIP” (Middle East Research and Information Project), a heavily communist/Marxist influenced, if not dominated anti-American, anti-Israel, pro-PLO propaganda publication.organization.
Leader/founder ARYEH NEIER - hardcore leftist. Lots on his leftism in “The Shadow Party”, Richard Poe and David Horowitz, Chapter: How Soros Works”.
Neier became the president of the Open Society Institute and the Soros Foundation Network, p. 23-25. Helped create SDS out of the anti-communist democratic socialist “League for Industrial Democracy” (along with Tom Hayden (who took over SDS later on as their theoretician).
ACLU Director
Impeach Nixon leader
ACLU project the “Center for National Security Studies” and the “ National Security Archives” - very far left anti-intelligence operations.
pp. 23-25; 28-30; 85, Nelson Current publisher, 2006
REED BRODY - hardcore leftist on Latin America.
Wrote a major disinformation report “The Brody Report” on alleged “Contra” atrocities in Nicaragua. A lot about him and this operation are found in “ The Real Secret War: Sandinista Political Warfare and its Effects on Congress”, Bouchey/Waller/Baldwin, Council for Inter-American Security/Institute, 1987.
Hope this is helpful in understanding the Marxist infiltration/leadership of Human Rights Watch at certain periods of time, often long ones in the case of Neier’s leadership.
Deported BDS bigot Omar Shakir uses ‘apartheid slur’
Posted on 4/27/2021, 5:49:47 PM by Conservat1
I just received news, that NPR/NYtimes reported that bigoted BDS promoter Omar Shakir who somehow sits on HRW used the “apartheid” slur on worried Israel of racist Arab attacks... The guy is vengeful too, after being deported from Israel in 2019.
Overview
Omar Shakir [Omar S. Shakir] was deported from Israel in November 2019 for promoting anti-Israel boycotts while serving as the Israel and Palestine Country Director for Human Rights Watch (HRW).
Shakir has defended terrorists, whitewashed violent protests and demonized Israel.
Shakir was the 2011-2012 co-president of Students for Palestinian Equal Rights (SPER), a forerunner to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Stanford University (Stanford). As an alumnus, Shakir has defended SJP and has been a featured speaker at SJP events.
In 2015, Shakir represented anti-Israel activist Steven Salaita in his lawsuit against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). In 2014, Salaita was fired by UIUC for posting a series of anti-Israel tweets.
Shakir is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. Shakir promoted and advocated [00:06:21] for divestment bills while a student at Stanford. In 2013, he introduced a BDS resolution to the undergraduate senate at Stanford which failed to get the required two-thirds approval. https://canarymission.org/individual/Omar_Shakir
Facts of racism in the area and the intolerance of casting fear as "racist"
A Jew cannot buy or rent in an Arab settlement. And even in those mixed communities where there was a Jewish minority, Peki'in village is an example where, Jews fled the terror of Arab racism.
That Jews fear going through certain Arab villages, is practical fear.
Arabs targeting Jews, as identifying them as Jews, is sheer Arab racism and Islamists bigotry.
That certain leadership in Arab political and religious sphere incite against Jews is not rare.
The Palestinian Authority's death sentence for anyone who sells real estate to a Jew. And moderate (relatively to genocidal Hamas) Mahmoud Abass' 2013 open declaration of no Jew to be in future [judenrein, ethnic cleansed] "palestine" state, now that is raw racism.
Denying genuine worry of Israelis and casting it as just intolerance, is in and of itself intolerance. No matter if it's Arab racism by Arab "activists" including bigoted BDS pushers abusing Human Rights org. [Enter Omar Shakir, et al] casted in "human rights" phrases/frames or anti-Jewish Haaretz/Btselem's Hagai El-Ad who by focusing its denouncements in the international arena and ignoring real human rights abuses on the Arab side (whether Arab leadership inside Israel or "palestinian") and Arab racism against Jews, proves the campaign's real agenda - defamation, at any costs, truth or not, misrepresentation or what have you. Not progress.
Despite latest "drama," nothing major has really changed since 2006, when Jimmy Carrter (who, besides misrepresentations and white washing Arab violence) admitted that Israel is an equal democracy for all but his "criticism" was about "territories", plus the language was to "provoke debate."...
Is is not "apartheid" when calculations is risk assessment.
Nor is there a difference between the "race" of Israeli-Arabs and "palestinian"-Arabs.
Nor is it "apartheid" when Arab representation is very powerful in all areas, including in Knesset.
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/human-rights-watch-israel-apartheid-report-condemned-as-fiction-1.516093
https://aijac.org.au/op-ed/gross-distortions-of-hrw-apartheid-slur/
https://www.janglo.net/item/LoHOoAAcUsr
https://www.ngo-monitor.org/reports/hrws-apartheid-demonization-bds-lawfare/
https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/the-new-blood-libel-of-medical-apartheid/
https://zionist.org.uk/the-btselem-apartheid-slur/
https://www.wbez.org/stories/israeli-response-accusations-of-apartheid-slur-israel/b8b72c44-ad7f-4c3d-80d9-cc5aedf62410
https://honestreporting.ca/neil-macdonalds-apartheid-slur-is-inflammatory-and-unfounded
https://unwatch.org/u-n-s-mideast-agency-obsessed-israeli-apartheid/
https://ajn.timesofisrael.com/bob-carr-out-of-control/
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2016/02/i-grew-south-africa-so-believe-me-when-i-say-israel-not-apartheid-state
https://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/opinions/apartheid-slur-driven-hatred-lies
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/05/19/explaining-john-kerrys-apartheid-slur/
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/jonathan-tobin/kerrys-apartheid-slur/
https://brandeiscenter.com/the-apartheid-slur-an-intellectual-affront-and-obstacle-to-peace/
https://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2011/04/black-students-blast-israeli-apartheid.html
https://www.wsj.com/news/author/james-taranto?page=62
https://www.wbez.org/stories/israeli-response-accusations-of-apartheid-slur-israel/b8b72c44-ad7f-4c3d-80d9-cc5aedf62410
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israel-and-the-apartheid-slur/
https://jpost.com/jerusalem-report/israel/the-apartheid-slur/
https://www.iol.co.za/amp/the-star/apartheid-slur-is-a-ploy-mr-kasrils-1135399
https://www.google.com/search?&q=site%3Aalgemeiner.com/+apartheid
https://www.google.com/search?&q=site%3Aelderofziyon.blogspot.com/+apartheid
https://www.google.com/search?&q=site%3Astandwithus.com/+apartheid
https://www.google.com/search?&q=site%3Ajcpa.org+apartheid
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