Comments on: ‘Human Rights Watch’ tries to get past identity politics

By: Jake in Jerusalem

Jake in Jerusalem — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:28:34 +0000

Poor "Palestinean victims" murdered a dozen athletes at the Munich Olympics. And hijacked and bombed airliners for a couple of decades. And murdered American soldiers like Robert Stethem. And blew up the Marines barracks in Lebanon, killing 250 Marines. And terrorized and continue to terrorize innocent civilians in dozens of countries to this day. Victims, my foot!

By: eitanbenshlomo

eitanbenshlomo — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:53:46 +0000

Don't speak bad about Dan Gillerman. You don't know him, you never met him and he is a Hero. Palestinian UN delegate liked Dan, everybody liked Dan. But hey, He is a Jew and he fights for Israel so you knock down his character.

By: bluebeard

bluebeard — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:47:15 +0000

Honest soldier? No names, no actual verifiable events.

By: IrishWhiskey

IrishWhiskey — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:36:00 +0000

Just repeating a falsehood over and over used to work. Mark Regev smeared HRW on British TV regarding the soldiers 'Breaking the silence'. Pretty typical; a PR man criticising an honest soldier who believes his actions were unacceptable. Straight out of Dan Gillerman's office.

By: Shingo

Shingo — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:14:00 +0000

Who said Black is white, Jew is Nazi, Hitler is Moral? It's a fact that the Palestinians are victims. Who cares if you're not buying it,. The rest of the world is.

By: Shingo

Shingo — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:12:51 +0000

But it's not. Israel is among a number of human rights abusing countries that it reports on. It's Israel's fault that it abuses human rights. No point blaming HRW for noticing.

By: eitanbenshlomo

eitanbenshlomo — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:02:36 +0000

Israel is singled out by HRW. The org is biased

By: Shingo

Shingo — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:35:03 +0000

HRW and many NGO's are against Zimbabwe, China and other human rights abusing countries too. Israel is not alone.

By: Nth Republic

Nth Republic — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:21:41 +0000

Off-topic, slightly related to HRW: I'm sure many of you have seen this story about Russian human rights activist Natalia Estemirova of the organization Memorial, who was kidnapped from her home in Grozny, Chechenia ("Chechnya") yesterday and driven to neighboring Ingushetia, where she was shot twice in the head and dumped near the side of the road. Ms. Estemirova also worked closely with Human Rights Watch to document Russian human rights violations in Chechenia, and an HRW tribute to her work can be found here. The Boston Globe printed a fairly good article about her murder as well. Ms. Estemirova is simply the most recent in a long line of brave human rights workers and journalists who have taken their lives into their hands, and subsequently lost them, by venturing into the Caucasus to capture on film and in print Russia's numerous war crimes and human rights violations against the peoples of that region, especially Chechenia. I, for one, stand with Natalia's comrade in Memorial, Oleg Orlov, when he asserts, "I know, I am sure of it, who is guilty for the murder of Natalia ... His name is Ramzan Kadyrov [current President of the puppet Chechen government]". I long for the day when Kadyrov, Medvedev, and Putin get what's coming to them.

By: ThorsProvoni

ThorsProvoni — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:10:53 +0000

Obviously, the Jewish plutocracy prefers that human rights organizations be dependent on Jewish largess. Historically, it has cultivated African-American leaders willing to sit up, to beg, and to do tricks on Jewish command. Gloria White-Hammond in Boston is an example of a tame Jew-pandering Jew-blessed African-American shabbesshikse: Hub of the World (Zionist Conspiracy).