HRW Whitewashes Hezbollah, Hamas, and PFLP

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is scheduled to release a publication, “Born Without Civil Rights,” on Tuesday morning, December 17 utilizing individuals who are members of internationally recognized terrorist organizations and/or groups closely linked to these organizations and who have been convicted of incitement, terror financing, and membership in terrorist organizations. These include Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

Topics

• BDS
• Hamas
• Hezbollah
• Human Rights Watch
• Military Order 101

• Omar Shakir
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Terrorism
• West Bank
• Whitewashing

[Opinion] BDS, Omar Shakir, and Israel Eliminationism

Professor Gerlad M Steinberg discusses the impending case against BDS activist Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch's Israel and Palestine Country Director.

Topics

• Airbnb
• Antisemitism
• BDS
• Demonization
• FIFA

• Human Rights Watch
• IHRA
• Ken Roth
• Michael Sfard
• Omar Shakir

The BDS Life and Times of Omar Shakir

Omar Shakir’s background and history of anti-Israel activity exemplifies the organization’s troubling ideological approach to Israel and retreat from the universal principles of human rights.

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• Airbnb
• BDS
• Gaza
• Human Rights Watch

• Lawfare
• Omar Shakir
• UN BDS Blacklist

Omar Shakir’s Obsessive Anti-Israel Twitter Campaign (June 2018– February 2019)

Omar Shakir tweeted 970 times (including retweets) on issues relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict, ranging from boycotting businesses over the 1949 Armistice line, the violence along the Gaza border, and his lawsuit against the Israeli government.

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• 2019 Gaza Border Violence
• Airbnb
• BDS
• Gaza
• Hamas

• Human Rights Watch
• Omar Shakir
• Terrorism
• UN BDS Blacklist

Human Rights Watch’s Airbnb Campaign: Discrimination and BDS

On November 20, 2018, Human Rights Watch, in cooperation with Kerem Navot, published a report targeting Airbnb. The report followed a two-year long coordinated and well-financed BDS campaign.

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• Airbnb
• BDS
• Human Rights Watch
• UN BDS Blacklist

Omissions and Oversimplifications: HRW’s Report on PA and Hamas Torture

Human Rights Watch’s October 2018 report “Two Authorities, One Way, Zero Dissent: Arbitrary Arrest and Torture Under the Palestinian Authority and Hamas” contains a number of obvious omissions and reflects an absence of serious analysis

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• Airbnb
• Hamas
• Human Rights Watch
• Omar Shakir
• Torture

[Opinion] Human Rights Day Nothing to Celebrate

Professor Gerald Steinberg writes about how the agenda of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva continues to be controlled by some of the worst violators.

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• 2018 Gaza Border Violence
• Human Rights Watch
• International Human Rights Day
• United Nations

NGO Monitor Files Amicus Brief in HRW BDS Case

NGO Monitor filed an amicus brief in the Jerusalem District Court case involving Omar Shakir, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) staffer and BDS activist

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• BDS
• Human Rights Watch
• Omar Shakir

[Opinion] Human Rights Watch Ignores Critical Aspects of Gaza Riots

Becca Wertman discusses how Human Rights Watch (HRW) releases a report ignoring criticial aspects of the Gaza riots, including the threat that Hamas and other terrorist factions pose to both Palestinian and Israeli civilians and does not mention the recruitment and use of children as soldiers.

Topics

• 2018 Gaza Border Violence
• Gaza
• Hamas
• Human Rights Watch
• Omar Shakir
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

Letter to the Editor of Foreign Policy (Unpublished)

Becca Wertman writes a Letter to the Editor of Foreign Policy regarding invented legal standards by Sari Bashi, Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) “Israel/Palestine Advocacy Director,

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• Gaza
• Hamas
• Human Rights Watch