I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...]
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HRW Goes To Saudi Arabia… To Denounce Israel
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David Bernstein writes in the Wall Street Journal about Human Rights Watch’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia. No, not to investigate or denounce human rights violations there, but rather to raise money to ratchet up their propaganda war against Israel. Yes, they were actually there, cap in hand, to beg the slave-owning, anti-Semitic, Christian-persecuting misogynists there for money to fight Israel’s “human rights violations”.
As Bernstein puts it:
There is something wrong when a human rights organization goes to one of the worst countries in the world for human rights to raise money to wage lawfare against Israel, and says not a word during the trip about the status of human rights in that country.
I wonder how many get-out-of-jail-free cards that buys the Saudis with HRW (and if those cards are honored also by Amnesty International… or should the Saudis buy similar credits separately with Amnesty International?).
UPDATE
Israel’s Prime Minister’s office had some choice words to say about this. “A human rights organization raising money in Saudi Arabia is like a women’s rights group asking the Taliban for a donation,” said Mark Regev, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s spokesman. ”If you can fundraise in Saudi Arabia, why not move on to Somalia, Libya and North Korea? For an organization that claims to offer moral direction, it appears that Human Rights Watch has seriously lost its moral compass.”
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