Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Gerald Steinberg: Investigate Human Rights Watch

Writing in the Jerusalem Post,Gerald Steinberg has accused HRW head Ken Roth of "blood libel" against Israel, and demanded an investigation of the organization:

With an annual budget of $50 million, Roth and his funders are obliged to insure that HRW's reports are accurate and free of ideological bias. In contrast, when these reports are instrumental in spreading anti-Israel sentiment in Malaysia, Turkey, Bangladesh, Europe and elsewhere, the result is the antithesis of the human rights objectives proclaimed by HRW.

Rather than the independent investigations of Israel that Roth always demands, it is his HRW's activities that need to be investigated.
I agree. I'd like to nominate Natan Sharansky to conduct an independent investigation of Human Rights Watch--and suggest HRW founder Robert Bernstein raise the money to pay for it...