Human Rights Watch ex Wiki
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Human Rights Watch was founded under the name
Helsinki Watch in 1978 to monitor the former
Soviet
Union's compliance with the
Helsinki Accords. Helsinki Watch adopted a methodology of publicly "naming
and shaming" abusive governments through media coverage and through direct
exchanges with policymakers. By shining the international spotlight on human
rights violations in the Soviet Union and its
vassal
states in
Eastern Europe, Helsinki Watch contributed to the democratic transformations
of the region in the late 1980s.[citation
needed] Americas Watch was founded in 1981 while bloody civil wars
engulfed
Central America. Relying on extensive on-the-ground fact-finding, Americas
Watch not only addressed perceived abuses by government forces, but applied
international humanitarian law to investigate and expose
war crimes
by rebel groups. In addition to raising its concerns in the affected countries,
Americas Watch also examined the role played by foreign governments,
particularly the
United States government, in providing military and political support to
abusive regimes. Asia Watch (1985), Africa Watch (1988), and Middle East Watch
(1989) were added to what was then known as "The Watch Committees." In 1988, all
of the committees were united under one umbrella to form Human Rights Watch.
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When reading the Wiki be aware that it has an agenda.
Human Rights Watch ex
Wikipedia
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For the financial year ending June 2008, HRW
reported receiving approximately US$44 million in public donations.
In 2009, Human Rights Watch stated that they receive almost 75% of their
financial support from North America, 25% from Western Europe and less than 1%
from the rest of the world.
According to a 2008 financial assessment, HRW reports that it does not accept
any direct or indirect funding from governments and is financed through
contributions from private individuals and foundations.
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Charities are subject to laws regarding accounts, objectives and so on.
Unincorporated associations like HRW and the Mafia have more leeway.
Human Rights Watch
Causes
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Traffic in
small arms - this is done so that
people cannot protect themselves against vicious governments.
Land mines
are nasty things.
Legalization of abortion on demand
- this is part of a thrust to incite wanton fornication and destroy
Families, the bedrock of civilization.
Gay rights
- inciting homosexuality is also war against civilization.
Rights of
AIDS patients -
ditto for homosexuals.
Safety of civilians in war; opposes use of
cluster bombs - what did they do about
the million or so cluster bombs the Jews left in Lebanon to maim the innocent?
Not a lot.
Child labor
Child soldiers
Street children
Genocide,
war crimes
and
crimes against humanity unless Jews are
the perpetrators as in the Gaza Massacre
Torture
- is just fine when Jews do it at Khiam Prison -
Israel's Torture Den
Extrajudicial killings and abductions - that is what
Mossad has just [ February 2010 ] been doing in Dubai.
Extraordinary rendition by the United States
- but not when Jews do it to Adolf Eichmann
Legal proceedings against human rights
abusers - unless they are Jews running the world's largest concentration camp in
Gaza
Trafficking in women and girls - except when they turn up in Jerusalem, Tel
Aviv, Haifa etcetera among God's Chosen People.
Abolition of
capital punishment worldwide - Jews did it to Adolf Eichmann. They also set
up the Nuremberg War Trials. They hanged men then.
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Some causes sound worthy. Some are. Are they applied equally or
do they ask who, whom? Who are the victims? Who are the perpetrators?
Human Rights Watch
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Robert L. Bernstein, Founding Chair
Emeritus [ Jew, probability > 99% ]
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director [ Jew ]
Minky Worden, Media Director
Marc Garlasco, Senior Military Expert
Jamie Fellner, Senior Counsel for the
United States Program of Human Rights Watch
Scott Long, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender Rights Director
Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and
North Africa Director
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All Jews?
Possibly not. The Wiki admits to one.
How Robert L. Bernstein Turns Israel's Sow's Ear Into a Silk Purse By Using Words
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The Jewish Zionist led, Christian Zionist supported Israeli government, with organizational and financial support from 30 branches of the World Zionist Organization in just as many countries, is engaged in bombing, strafing, shooting the people of Palestine using depleted uranium coated bombs, cluster bombs, phosphorous bombs, dropped from supersonic jets, helicopter gun ships, and armored tanks
they are using behemoth bulldozers supplied by Caterpillar to demolish more than a thousand Palestinian homes, countless Mosques and to eradicate hundreds of whole villages and towns;
they crush thousands of hectares of decades old olive and orange orchids;
they fly their supersonic jets low over the Palestinian population and break the sound barrier to create the sonic boom that has deafened hundreds of vulnerable Palestinian children;
they are building ghetto style armed Jewish settlements on the high ground of all of the territory of Palestine that is beyond their internationally recognized borders;
they restrict the water, the electricity, the medical care, the sewage, the education, the employment, the travel, the communications and every facet of the lives of the people of Palestine;
they make targeted assassinations of the selected and elected representatives chosen by the people of Palestine killing dozens of other people in the process;
they have confiscated court, land and title records that confirm the property rights of the people of Palestine;
they are building a wall to recreate their beloved ghetto existence armed to the teeth with nuclear bombs and chemical and biological weapons:
they have driven millions of the people of Palestine off of the land of their forbears:
Now read below what Robert L. Bernstein, the Jewish founder of Human Rights Watch, writes about Israel in a New York Times Op Ed and remember that what he describes are the characteristics that all racist colonizing societies provide for their own “racially” created citizenry.
Aside from the fact that all international news dispatches originating in Israel are monitored and subject to censor by agents of its government, Bernstein follows the pattern of Israeli defenders of justifying the invasion, occupation and absorption of the Palestine beyond the internationally recognized borders and vilifying the resistance to such by the people of Palestine.
The characteristics that Bernstein extols in Israel are reserved for the colonizer's own "racially" created citizenry just like the democratic characteristics of the French government as the racist colonizer of Viet Nam (remember Dien Bien Phu) and Algeria that Franz Fanon wrote about; just like the democratic government of Italy as the racist colonizer of Ethiopia and Libya; just like the democratic government of the Netherlands as the racist colonizer of the East Indies: just like the democratic government of Belgium as the racist colonizer of the Congo (remember King Leopold); just like the democratic government of Germany as the racist colonizer of East Africa; just like the democratic government of England as the racist colonizer of India (remember Ghandi) , Rhodesia and South Africa; just like the democratic government of Australia as the racist colonizer of its indigenous people and in its completed genocide of Tasmania; just like the democratic government of the United States as the racist, genocidal colonizer of its indigenous population and the African slave trade.
In fact, one of the historically verifiable, principal characteristics of all of the democratic states cited is their brutal racist colonizing perpetuated for centuries.
The horror only becomes apparent when the actions, the restrictions, the tactics that they use systematically and routinely against the people of the colonized countries is applied to the citizenry of the racist colonizer and then it is called fascism.
William C. Carlotti
October 23, 2009
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OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR to the New York Times-October 20, 2009
Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast
By ROBERT L. BERNSTEIN
AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its
active chairman for 20 years and now founding chairman emeritus, I must do
something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group’s critics.
Human Rights Watch had as its original mission to pry open closed societies,
advocate basic freedoms and support dissenters. But recently it has been issuing
reports on the Israeli-Arab conflict that are helping those who wish to turn
Israel into a pariah state.
At Human Rights Watch, we always recognized that open, democratic societies have faults and commit abuses. But we saw that they have the ability to correct them — through vigorous public debate, an adversarial press and many other mechanisms that encourage reform.
That is why we sought to draw a sharp line between the democratic and nondemocratic worlds, in an effort to create clarity in human rights. We wanted to prevent the Soviet Union and its followers from playing a moral equivalence game with the West and to encourage liberalization by drawing attention to dissidents like Andrei Sakharov, Natan Sharansky and those in the Soviet gulag — and the millions in China’s laogai, or labor camps.
When I stepped aside in 1998, Human Rights Watch was active in 70 countries, most of them closed societies. Now the organization, with increasing frequency, casts aside its important distinction between open and closed societies.
Nowhere is this more evident than in its work in the Middle East. The region is populated by authoritarian regimes with appalling human rights records. Yet in recent years Human Rights Watch has written far more condemnations of Israel for violations of international law than of any other country in the region.
Israel, with a population of 7.4 million, is home to at least 80 human rights organizations, a vibrant free press, a democratically elected government, a judiciary that frequently rules against the government, a politically active academia, multiple political parties and, judging by the amount of news coverage, probably more journalists per capita than any other country in the world — many of whom are there expressly to cover the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Meanwhile, the Arab and Iranian regimes rule over some 350 million people, and most remain brutal, closed and autocratic, permitting little or no internal dissent. The plight of their citizens who would most benefit from the kind of attention a large and well-financed international human rights organization can provide is being ignored as Human Rights Watch’s Middle East division prepares report after report on Israel.
Human Rights Watch has lost critical perspective on a conflict in which Israel has been repeatedly attacked by Hamas and Hezbollah, organizations that go after Israeli citizens and use their own people as human shields. These groups are supported by the government of Iran, which has openly declared its intention not just to destroy Israel but to murder Jews everywhere. This incitement to genocide is a violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Leaders of Human Rights Watch know that Hamas and Hezbollah chose to wage war from densely populated areas, deliberately transforming neighborhoods into battlefields. They know that more and better arms are flowing into both Gaza and Lebanon and are poised to strike again. And they know that this militancy continues to deprive Palestinians of any chance for the peaceful and productive life they deserve. Yet Israel, the repeated victim of aggression, faces the brunt of Human Rights Watch’s criticism.
The organization is expressly concerned mainly with how wars are fought, not with motivations. To be sure, even victims of aggression are bound by the laws of war and must do their utmost to minimize civilian casualties. Nevertheless, there is a difference between wrongs committed in self-defense and those perpetrated intentionally.
But how does Human Rights Watch know that these laws have been violated? In Gaza and elsewhere where there is no access to the battlefield or to the military and political leaders who make strategic decisions, it is extremely difficult to make definitive judgments about war crimes. Reporting often relies on witnesses whose stories cannot be verified and who may testify for political advantage or because they fear retaliation from their own rulers. Significantly, Col. Richard Kemp [ see The Establishment on the this - Ed ], the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan and an expert on warfare, has said that the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza “did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.”
Only by returning to its founding mission and the spirit of humility that animated it can Human Rights Watch resurrect itself as a moral force in the Middle East and throughout the world. If it fails to do that, its credibility will be seriously undermined and its important role in the world significantly diminished.
Robert L. Bernstein, the former president and
chief executive of Random House, was the chairman of Human Rights Watch from
1978 to 1998
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William C. Carlotti
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Bernstein sings a different tune when his own are the perps. Cover up is the order of the day.
Editorial: Maybe they'll listen to these guys « The Jewish Star
"For Human Rights Watch,
Robert L. Bernstein should
be impossible to ignore. He co-founded the group and was its chair for 20 years
until ..."
thejewishstar.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/editorial-maybe-theyll-listen-to-these-guys/
