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Claims That U. Toronto Succumbed To Zionists In Denying Human Rights Position To Valentina Azarova Fall Flat

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on November 08, 2020 5 Comments

When asserted "human rights scholar" (and anti-Israel polemicist) Valentina Azarova was denied a position leading the prestigious International Human Rights Program (IHRP) at the University of Toronto, media and anti-Zionists alike painted a picture of Zionist Cancel Culture at work.

https://www.jns.org/opinion/activists-push-idea-that-israel-is-behind-the-coronavirus-pandemic/

Op-Ed: “Activists push idea that Israel’s behind the coronavirus pandemic”

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on April 24, 2020 3 Comments

Regular readers may remember my Thursday, April 9th research post, Investigation: How Anti-Israel Activists Are Hijacking The Coronavirus Crisis And Turning It Against Israel. Though the original post clocked in at close to 10,000 words, we managed to distill it down; the short version was published today in JNS.

Investigation: How Anti-Israel Activists Are Hijacking The Coronavirus Crisis And Turning It Against Israel

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on April 09, 2020 5 Comments

We have written a lot about how anti-Israel activists routinely hijack causes, events, and crises unrelated to Israel, using "intersectional" theory to turn those issues against the Jewish state. That phenomenon is playing out again with the coronavirus pandemic, providing the 'usual suspects' with yet another issue to exploit.

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Human Rights Watch Allegedly Took Saudi Money “by Promising Not to Support” Gay Rights in Middle East

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on March 06, 2020 18 Comments

Ken Roth, the head of Human Rights Watch (HRW), allegedly took close to half a million dollars in Saudi donations "by promising not to support advocacy" of gay rights in the Muslim-dominated Middle East and North Africa, media reports disclose.

Israeli Supreme Court approves deportation of Omar Shakir, anti-Israel activist working for Human Rights Watch

Posted by Petra Marquardt-Bigman on November 08, 2019 5 Comments

Ending an 18-months legal battle, Israel’s Supreme Court decided last Tuesday to uphold the Interior Ministry’s refusal to renew the work visa of Omar Shakir, who had first entered the country as “Israel and Palestine Country Director” of Human Rights Watch (HRW) in February 2017. The court reportedly ruled that Shakir must now leave Israel within 20 days. As I have previously documented in considerable detail, both Shakir and his employer HRW have a long record of anti-Israel activism. (See here and here).

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Anti-Israel bias at Human Rights Watch (Part 2: Two decades of anti-Zionism)

Posted by Petra Marquardt-Bigman on May 18, 2019 3 Comments

In the first part of my documentation of the bias of Human Rights Watch, I focused on HRW’s “Israel and Palestine Country Director” Omar Shakir. I demonstrated that, given his long record of anti-Israel activism, it is laughable for HRW to insist that Shakir would be able or even willing to impartially monitor Israel’s human rights record.

Anti-Israel bias at Human Rights Watch (Part 1: Omar Shakir)

Posted by Petra Marquardt-Bigman on May 11, 2019 19 Comments

Israel has refused to renew a visa for Omar Shakir of Human Rights Watch (HRW) to remain in Israel as a human rights worker, based on his long history of anti-Israel activism. This has caused a storm of controversy and lawsuits, leading to the fair question: Is Shakir entitled to a work visa to promote human rights if what he really is promoting is anti-Israel activism and the destruction of Israel? Not surprisingly, the international media has taken Shakir's side.

Airbnb to boycott Jews living in the ‘West Bank’

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2018 26 Comments

Airbnb has been under a sustained pressure campaign by anti-Israeli activist groups to cease listing homes and apartments for rent in Israeli Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria (the "West Bank"). The area was ethnically cleansed of Jews by the Jordanians after Jordan captured the area in Israel's War of Independence. The 1949 Armistice Line was where the fighting stopped, and left many historically Jewish areas, including the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, in Jordanian hands. Israel recaptured the area in 1967.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkzEjuYl38Q

Human Rights Watch whines after Nikki Haley hits them over obstruction of attempts to reform UN Human Rights Council

Posted by David Gerstman on June 22, 2018 25 Comments

The Deputy Executive Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) Iain Levine, posted what he called an "extraordinary" letter from United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Wednesday evening.

UN Resolution 2334 advances the boycott of Israel

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2016 9 Comments

In all the fury over the anti-Israel UN Resolution 2334 the Obama administration marshalled through the Security Council, with an "abstain" vote providing cover for the perfidy, few people have focused on a particularly pernicious and dangerous provision. I'm not talking about the provisions effectively declaring it illegal for Jews to live in Jewish Quarter of the Old City or to worship at the Western Wall. Here is the provision I'm talking about in Resolution 2334 (pdf.):

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