"Human Rights Watch Still Promoting a Political Agenda"
As noted in previous NGO Monitor updates, HRW is continuing to use current events to pursue a political agenda, including calls to cut U.S. aid to Israel. In a letter of February 9 to European Commission President Jos Manuel Barroso, Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director of the Middle East and North Africa Division stated that EU aid to a Hamas-led P.A. should be conditioned on the human rights record of the Palestinian government...