[New York Sun] Alan Dershowitz - When it comes to Israel and its enemies, Human Rights Watch cooks the books about facts, cheats on interviews, and releases predetermined conclusions that are driven more by their ideology than by evidence. In the recent war in Lebanon between Hizballah and Israel: "Human Rights Watch found no cases in which Hizballah deliberately used civilians as shields to protect them from retaliatory IDF attack." Anyone who watched TV during the war saw with their own eyes direct evidence of rockets being launched from civilian areas, in addition to credible news reports of such launchings in the New York Times, New Yorker, and numerous other sources. Within the last month, virtually every component of the organized Jewish community has condemned Human Rights Watch for its bias.
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