Human Right Watch kritiseras av dess grundare (uppdaterad)

Robert L. Bernstein, grundare av Human Right Watch och dess ordförande mellan 1978 - 1998 kritiserar i New York Times organisationen för dess ensidiga kritik av Israel.
Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast (Bernsteins brev)
I Mellanöstern finns det flera diktatoriska stater där de mänskliga rättigheterna föraktas, ändå har HRW under de senaste åren fördömt Israel för deras kränkningar av mänskliga rättigheter betydligt fler gånger än någon annan stat i området, skriver han.
HRW:s mellanösternavdelning kunde vara till stor hjälp för människorna i Iran och arabvärlden som lider under förtryckarregimer men dessa ignoreras och istället skrivs rapport på rapport om Israel.

Förödande kritik mot HRW - av dess grundare (Fred i Mellanöstern)

Human Rights Watchdog - förlorad i Mellanöstern (svensk översättning av Bernsteins text)

HRW founder slams criticism of Israel
"He said Israel was 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 probably more journalists per capita than any other country in the world.
On the other hand, he said, the Iranian regime, and most Arab regimes, remained "brutal, closed and autocratic, permitting little or no internal dissent."
He said Human Rights Watch's Middle East division could be greatly beneficial to citizens of those countries, but they were instead being ignored as "report after report on Israel" was compiled.
He said the group had "lost critical perspective on a conflict in which Israel has been repeatedly attacked by Hamas and Hizbullah, organizations that go after Israeli citizens and use their own people as human shields."
Bernstein stressed that those terror groups were backed by Iran, which has called for the annihilation of Israel and the Jews, and said such incitement to genocide was a violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. "