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Congratulations AIPAC on 500th air delivery of US weapons to kill Gazans – Day 324

[email protected] August 27, 2024 Amnesty International, false antisemitism, Hezbollah, Human Rights Watch, humanitarian aid, indiscriminate attack, jewish settlers al aqsa, military industrial complex, NYU, torture, weapons to israel, west bank deaths

US averages over one planeload of weapons per day to Israel; another evacuation order, another disruption in aid for Gazans; new statements from Amnesty, Human Rights Watch on Israeli atrocities; Hezbollah ready to stop trading attacks with Israel, while Israel mulls escalation; another journalist killed in Gaza, as global press groups protest; Israel kills six Palestinians in West Bank; Israel to fund Israeli settlers’ illegal intrusions into Al Aqsa mosque compound; anti-Zionism = antisemitism policy at NYU is worrying; Columbia SJP disappeared; more.

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As it defends its planned genocidal Rafah invasion before ICJ, Israel vows to “intensify” raids – Day 223

[email protected] May 17, 2024 free speech, gaza pier, greg abbott, Human Rights Watch, humanitarian aid, international court of justice, international law, israeli settler violence, Jabaliya, japan, Lindsay Graham, Rafah, West Bank

Israel prepares a large-scale attack on Rafah, after massive destruction in the north and massive loss of life; aid orgs running out of medical supplies, food; West Bank also under attack; HRW reports on Israel’s failure to follow ICJ’s orders – as Israel is hauled up before the court yet again; multiple countries (not including US) pressure Israel to comply with int’l law; Japan calls out Lindsay Graham’s bad taste; US-built pier is operational; Texas governor Greg Abbott sued; more

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Israel boasts of humanitarian aid flooding in to Gaza – so, where is it? – Day 186

[email protected] April 10, 2024 foreign press association, gaza pier, hostage exchange, Human Rights Watch, humanitarian aid, Israel, khan younis, layan nasir, palestinian state, sanction, turkey exports, West Bank

Human Rights Watch calls for sanctions on Israel; young Christian woman kidnapped by Israeli forces in West Bank, her whereabouts unknown; Tucker Carlson interviews Bethlehem pastor about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians; Israel mulls hostage-for-prisoner exchange; Turkey initiates restrictions on exports to Israel; Australia may recognize Palestinian state; “What crime is Israel hiding?” asks Foreign Press Association; US pier may cost up to $200 million…

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US in denial about Israel’s use of food as a “weapon of war” – Day 165

[email protected] March 20, 2024 assassination, Gaza, genocide, gun control, Human Rights Watch, humanitarian aid, Israel, oxfam, south africa, world central kitchen

Weaponization of food in Gaza – only US is still in doubt; Oxfam, HRW to US: don’t believe Israel; Israel reportedly fires on Palestinian clan leaders heading up aid distribution; World Central Kitchen aid reaches some in north; WaPo investigation indicates unlawful killing by Israel; 100K Israelis have guns; South Africa shames the world; more

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Sarah Margon can’t get confirmed for State Dept job because…Israel

[email protected] January 26, 2023 BDS, boycott divest sanction, Human Rights Watch, sarah margon

Just weeks after Kenneth Roth lost (and then regained) a post at Harvard over his criticism of Israel, another highly qualified Jewish American is squeezed out of her nomination for a top human rights position in the State Department for the same reason.

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Harvard reinstates offer to former HRW chief after Israel controversy

[email protected] January 20, 2023 academic freedom, Douglas Elmendorf, Harvard, Human Rights Watch, kennedy school

Roth remains concerned, stating: “Criticizing Israel is not limited to me, and most scholars have no comparable capacity to mobilize public attention” He also seeks clarification about who was behind the dean’s original decision (some names have already been floated)

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I once ran Human Rights Watch. Harvard blocked my fellowship over Israel

[email protected] January 13, 2023 David Rubenstein, Douglas Elmendorf, Harvard, Human Rights Watch, Idan Ofer, israel bias, kennedy school, kenneth roth, Les Wexner, Robert Belfer

Kenneth Roth: “I was told that my fellowship at the Kennedy School was vetoed over my and Human Rights Watch’s criticism of Israel. How can an institution that purports to address foreign policy – that even hosts a human rights policy center – avoid criticism of Israel?”

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HRW: Facebook, Instagram restrictions facilitate Israel’s abuses of Palestinians

[email protected] October 12, 2021 apartheid, Facebook, first amendment, free speech, hrw, Human Rights Watch, instagram, social media

Facebook’s faulty content moderation, plus Israel’s “requests” to the social media company to take down online content, results in unfair restriction on free speech about Israeli human rights violations against Palestinians. HRW calls for widespread investigation.

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Human Rights Watch: apparent war crimes by Israel during May attack on Gaza

[email protected] July 30, 2021 Gaza, hamas, hrw, Human Rights Watch, israel airstrike, Israeli military, war crimes

Human Rights Watch investigated several Israeli attacks that resulted in particularly high numbers of civilian casualties – with no evident military target – and determined that the incidents may have been war crimes. Other Israeli attacks during the conflict were also likely unlawful.

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Another major human rights org reports: “apartheid” in Israel

[email protected] April 29, 2021 apartheid, Human Rights Watch, israeli apartheid, persecution, Rima Khalaf

Just a few months after Israeli human rights org B’Tselem released its bombshell report calling Israel an apartheid state, another major group reaches the same conclusion – adding “persecution” to the charge of apartheid. A 200+ page report details Human Rights Watch’s findings.

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