(Jerusalem Post) Joanie Margulies - After Human Rights Watch released a report on Wednesday calling for accountability for the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Hamas on Oct. 7, Prof. Gerald Steinberg, founder and president of NGO Monitor, responded: "This is another blatant example of HRW's token 'balance' and cynical political manipulation. Nine months after the brutal October 7 atrocities were shown live on social media, no one needs a 'report' from an organization devoted to demonizing Israel using the blood libels of genocide, apartheid, starvation and war crimes." HRW is currently exploiting the Oct. 7 tragedies and treatment of hostages "to score cheap points." "As NGO Monitor has documented, for over 25 years, HRW's systematic PR strategy uses one-off tokens like this to market the deceptions of 'neutrality' and 'expertise' to gullible donors, board members, and journalists." He referenced Danielle Haas, who was a senior editor at HRW for 13 years before recently publicly resigning. Haas "referred to the NGO's deeply embedded antisemitism, including HRW's first response after October 7, invoking the 'context' of 'apartheid' and 'occupation' before blood was even dry on bedroom walls."
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