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Source: https://fathomjournal.org/human-rights-watch-destructive-agenda-token-balance/
Human Rights Watch: Destructive Agenda, Token Balance
(Fathom-BICOM-UK) Gerald M. Steinberg - New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) is a key leader in the campaign to condemn Israel. With an annual income of more than $100 million, HRW's public relations team has been working full time to book their "experts" on television news programs and market their propaganda campaign to journalists, politicians, and diplomats. When mobs attack Jewish targets on university campuses and on the streets of London, New York, Toronto, and Sydney, their chants and signs echo the HRW slogans. In HRW's first public statement following the attack on Israel on Oct. 7, the incomprehensible brutality of the Hamas massacres was somehow justified or required contextualization. The deluge of HRW post-massacre posts, interviews and solemn statements repeat the organization's standard menu of Israeli apartheid and war crimes, wrapped in authoritative-sounding manipulation of international law. In HRW's version of "international law," Hamas and Israel are, at best, indistinguishable. Perhaps at some point, journalists, government officials, and donors will recognize the false accusations and stop providing HRW with platforms and funding to promote its destructive agenda. And perhaps the dissonance between its carefully manicured image of promoting morality and the blatant immorality of its Israel agenda will become too obvious to ignore. The writer, a Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, is emeritus professor of politics at Bar-Ilan University and president of NGO Monitor.