NGO Monitor: HRWs Founder Condemns Moral Failure

Robert Bernstein, the founder of Human Rights Watch, has published a very important criticism of the organization in the NY Times. In declaring his decision to publicly join the groups critics, Bernstein endorses the conclusion that HRW has lost all credibility over the Middle East. Bernsteins oped follows publication of NGO Monitors systematic report demonstrating HRWs blatant bias and lack of credibility on the Middle East. These findings have been amplified by the recent call for HRWs board members to institute a full independent review and reform in the organization.

Topics

• Goldstone Report
• Ideological Bias
• Joe Stork
• Ken Roth

• Nazi memorabilia
• Robert Bernstein
• Sarah Leah Whitson
• Saudi Arabia

Human Rights Watch: Selling Goldstone's Indictment

HRW is leading the campaign to promote the widely criticized Goldstone report on the Gaza War, with close to thirty statements to date. Repeatedly equates Israel to Hamas, immorally compare its response to attacks on civilians to the genocide in Sudan, and falsely accuse Israel of willfully killing civilians and deliberate infliction of suffering on civilians. The close links between Goldstone and HRW continue to constitute a clear conflict of interest. HRWs extensive media campaign diverts attention from the criticism and scandals that plague the organization.

Topics

• Goldstone Report
• Ken Roth
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)

Made in Europe: How government funded NGOs shaped the Goldstone report

The Goldstone report is primarily based on statements, publications, and submissions from highly politicized and biased NGOs, many of which are funded by European governments. Beyond adopting the flawed methodologies and false claims, the funding provided for these NGOs links European governments to the Goldstone report, and its contribution to anti-Israel demonization. European-funded groups PCHR, Al Mezan, Al Haq, and Adalah are also at the forefront of the lawfare campaigns that abuse the universal jurisdiction provisions in the legal codes of a number of Western countries using allegations of war crimes.

Topics

• Goldstone Report
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)

House of Cards: NGOs and the Goldstone Report

Goldstone relies on statements, publications, and submissions from highly politicized and biased NGOs. This is inconsistent with the claim to have conducted a fact finding mission. By adopting the flawed methodologies, false claims, and distortions of international law from the NGOs, Goldstone renders his entire report and its conclusions invalid. The report includes more than 500 direct citations from NGOs that lack credibility. Goldstone and other members of the commission have conflicts of interest involving close links to HRW, Amnesty International, PCHR.

Topics

• Distortions
• Goldstone Report
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)

Wiesel, Dershowitz and Woolsey: Investigation of Human Rights Watch (HRW) is Essential.

Topics

• Disproportionate condemnations
• Goldstone Report
• Ideological Bias
• Nazi memorabilia

• Sarah Leah Whitson
• Saudi Arabia
• Zionism is racism

Goldstone Report: 575 pages of NGO cut and paste

The Goldstone report is primarily based on NGO statements, publications, and submissions from Btselem, PCHR, Al-Haq, HRW, and many others copying the NGO biases, flawed methodology, and false claims. Following HRW and Amnesty, evidence of human shields is ignored. The report repeats NGO distortions of international law, including the false legal claim that Gaza remains occupied. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, Goldstones report asserts that the data provided by non-governmental sources with regard to the percentage of civilians among those killed are generally consistent.

Topics

• 2009 Gaza War
• Demonization
• Goldstone Report
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)

Investigating HRWs Credibility in the Wake of the Garlasco Affair

Topics

• Goldstone Report
• Ideological Bias
• Joe Stork
• Nazi memorabilia
• NGO Lack of Military Expertise

• pseudo-investigation
• Sarah Leah Whitson
• Saudi Arabia
• white phosphorus

B'tselem and PCHR Reports on Gaza War Casualties are not Credible

Topics

• 2009 Gaza War
• Civilian Casualties
• Goldstone Report
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) guidelines
• Lund-London Guidelines
• pseudo-investigation

NGO Monitor Report: Human Rights Watch On Israel - Experts or Ideologues?

Topics

• 2006 Lebanon War
• Disproportionate Focus
• Distortions of International Law
• Drones
• Fact finding missions

• Goldstone Report
• Joe Stork
• Ken Roth
• Lack of Evidence
• Lawfare

• Laws of Armed Conflict
• NGO Lack of Military Expertise
• Reed Brody
• Sarah Leah Whitson

The Goldstone "Fact Finding" Mission and the Role of Political NGOs

The Goldstone Mission chose officials from radical anti-Israel NGOs to testify including Al Haq, AIC, and the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP). The GCMHP representative used Nazi rhetoric. HRW has obsessively supported Goldstone, who was a member of HRWs board. The process for the selection of witnesses are completely hidden, and some including PCHR were not made public. Seven NIF-funded Israeli NGOs claimed that Israel acted punitive[ly] and deliberately and knowingly shelled civilian institutions. The Mission has violated the London-Lund guidelines, lacking objectivity, transparency, neutrality, and professionalism.

Topics

• 2014 Gaza War
• Durban
• Goldstone Report
• Lack of Transparency
• Political Warfare
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)