When it comes to promoting accountability in the Arab-Israeli conflict, Human Rights Watch once again fails becuase of its bias against Israel. “The point is not to equate, excuse or balance abuses but to demonstrate that reporting is based on human rights principles rather than partisan considerations.” HRW’s Position Paper on the Durban Preparatory Committee (April 21, 2008): The following analysis [by NGO Monitor] demonstrates that HRW’s own activities related to Israel continue to fall short of this basic standard of universality Summary: Analysis of Human Rights Watch‘s use of the rhetoric of international law and other terminology shows continued
Read More +UN Watch is a Geneva-based human rights organization founded in 1993 to monitor UN compliance with the principles of its Charter. Via UN Watch: Amnesty International should reconsider its speaking invitation to Jean Ziegler, a UN official who co-founded the Muammar Qaddafi Human Rights Prize and has supported the regimes of Robert Mugabe, Fidel Castro and other major human rights violators, said UN Watch, a Geneva-based human rights monitoring organization (Click to read UN Watch letter).At its annual Swiss conference to be held this Saturday in Bern, Amnesty International plans to feature Mr. Ziegler together with Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline
Read More +Finally Israel is doing something right, considering Richard Falk does everything all wrong. The Israeli Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that it will not allow the U.N. official appointed to investigate Israeli-Palestinian human rights to enter the country, after he stood by comments comparing Israelis to Nazis. Richard Falk is scheduled to take up his post with the U.N. Human Rights Council in May, but Israel’s Foreign Ministry said it will deny Falk a visa to enter Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, at least until a September meeting of the council. At that meeting, Israel intends to ask the council
Read More +Below is the updated list of one-sided resolutions against Israel adopted by the UN Human Rights Council since its creation in June 2006. The council was designed as an improvement over the discredited Commission on Human Rights, but has tragically repeated and even intensified the same biases.The council has criticized Israel on 19 separate occasions, in resolutions that grant effective impunity to Hamas, Hezbollah and their state sponsors. Obsessed with condemning Israel, the Council in its first year failed to condemn human rights violations occurring in any of the world’s 191 other countries. In its second year, the Council finally
Read More +A reminder for those who don’t remember
191 views
Israel evicted nearly 10,000 Jews from their homes in Gaza, yet all Israel received in return was – and continues to be – a steady barrage of rocket fire from Muslim and Hamas-occupied territory. Gilad Shalit, who was abducted by the Muslim terrorist organization in June 2006 begins today his 22nd month in captivity. Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Gillerman, summed up the situation by telling the Security Council on March 25th that the apparent lull in Hamas rocket attacks is only superficial, because the bombs keep ticking, while Hamas is using this time to smuggle in and produce
Read More +Another human rights fraud is about to be elected to the UN Human Rights Council. Via UN Watch:Stop Jean Ziegler Before March 26, 2008Who is Jean Ziegler? This supporter of dictators is assured election to the UN Human Rights Council — unless Switzerland is persuaded to withdraw his nomination.First, watch this compelling video. UN Watch has learned that on next Wednesday, March 26, 2008, the United Nations is expected to elect Jean Ziegler—founder of the “Muammar Khaddafi Human Rights Prize”—as one of only three Western advisory experts on the Human Rights Council. As the darling of the council’s ruling Arab
Read More +Promoting Accountability in the Arab-Israeli Conflict. From NGO Monitor: The statement written by Joe Stork of Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemning Israel’s response to rocket bombardment from Gaza exploits and distorts international law. Of the 34 paragraphs, Stork only mentions the hundreds of rocket attacks against Israel in two sentences, demonstrating the double standards in this invective. HRW’s claim that Gaza remains “occupied” is a politically based fiction designed to negate Israel’s legal and moral right to self-defense. There is no legal or moral precedent for a country to be forced to provide a hostile neighbor with the means to
Read More +I drive a Ford now – we bought a Ford because I wanted to “buy America” – but after learning how the Ford Foundation supports the entity calling itself “palestine” and the entity’s export of human murderers who thrive on killing Jewish men, women, and children, it will be the last Ford that I will ever own. Ever. From NGO-Monitor: The Ford Foundation’s 2006 grants to NGOs involved in the Israeli-palestinian conflict may reflect some changes from 2005. But overall, Ford (in cooperation with the New Israel Fund) continued to support many problematic NGOs in 2006. These include major international
Read More +