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By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT12/08/2012 20:16Human
Right Watch leader refuses to label calls to erase Israel; compares mullah's remarks to those of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
WASHINGTON The head of New York-based Human Rights Watch refused to label as genocidal Iranian calls to obliterate the Jewish state and compared Irans mullah leadership to the Shas party.
The Wall Street Journals David Feith, as assistant editorial features editor with the paper, obtained internal HRW emails and published last week a report, headlined Dancing around genocide, about alleged HRW bias against Israel and an internecine conflict within HRWs top leadership about the groups head, Kenneth Roth, and his failure to take Irans calls to destroy Israel seriously.
The Journal reported that Sid Sheinberg, HRWs vice chairman, wrote in an email, Sitting still while Iran claims a justification to kill all Jews and annihilate Israel is...a position unworthy of our great organization.
According to the newspaper, Roth wrote in one email, Many of [Irans] statements are certainly reprehensible, but they are not incitement to genocide. No one has acted on them.
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http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=295129
leveymg
(36,418 posts)The article, (was) written by Alireza Forghani, an analyst and a strategy specialist
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/ayatollah-kill-all-jews-annihilate-israel/#Su2TDOmo4jQTFVMP.99
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)a nation calls for the destruction of another state and it's considered genocide until someone acts upon said call?
One would think that the the comments would be condemned.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)In an email to The Jerusalem Post on Saturday, Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg, the head of the Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor, wrote, This is a blatant example of Roths indifference to genocidal threats and human rights abuses when these target Israel.
Roth, who has controlled Human Rights Watch since 1996, has consistently demonstrated a obsession with attacking the Jewish state, and the people he selected to lead HRWs Middle East and North Africa division are also infected with this deep bias, Steinberg wrote.
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Steinberg added that George Soros, who now provides HRW with most of its budget after many donors withdrew support, shares responsibility for enabling such immoral behavior under the facade of human rights.
Soros is a dog whistle for some he supports J-Street over AIPAC and supported Obama over Romney, not to mention the failed smear campaign to have Soros cast as a Nazi collaborator for events that happened while he was a kid in occupied Hungary from a couple of years back
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)must be made up stuff
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)King_David
(14,851 posts)The Human Rights Watch Internal Battle on Iran
Leaked email shows Kenneth Roth comparing mullahs to Shas
By Adam Chandler|December 6, 2012 10:30 AM
''I wont defend Yosefs disgusting remarks. Neither will a panoply of Jewish and Israeli organizations that condemned them, nor the Israeli government, which immediately said that Yosefs words do not reflect the approach of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, nor the position of the government of Israel. Thats the first distinction here.
The second and more obvious distinction, which makes Roths comparison between Yosef and Irans leadership all the more troubling, is that Yosef is a fringe, fanatical figure in Israel. While he remains influential in some circles, he is neither a head of state nor an official who sets government policy. And despite his inflammatory prayers, Yosef also opposes a military strike on Iran.
The same cant be said for Iran and its leaders, whose incitements go unchallenged in Iran and, apparently, in the top offices of Human Rights Watch.''
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/118573/the-human-rights-watch-internal-battle-on-iran
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