Does Human Rights Watch Understand the Nature of Prejudice?

[shira]

1. Ken Roth Uses ‘Anti-Semite’ Straw Man to Avoid Answering Critics. Time to Grow Up, Ken (VIDEO)

Last edited Mon Sep 22, 2014, 06:02 AM - Edit history (1)

This interview with Human RIGHTS Watch’s Ken Roth on Dutch TV reveals how Roth avoids answering the many substantial, provable criticisms of his clear anti-Israel bias.

He simply claims that all his critics are accusing him of anti-Semitism....

....Since 2006, Roth and HRW have been criticized for their obsession with Israel from many quarters besides this blog. Here is a small sample:

Noah Pollak in The Wall Street Journal
NGO Monitor, many times
Natan Sharansky
Israel’s Prime Minister’s office
CAMERA
The New Republic
David Bernstein in WSJ
Jennifer Rubin in WaPo
David Feith in WSJ,
Ron Kampeas of JTA
Times of London
The JC
Commentary
The original founder of Human Rights Watch, Robert Bernstein

None of these critiques, many of which are quite substantive, accuse Ken Roth or Human RIGHTS Watch of anti-Semitism.

The reality isn’t close to what Roth claims in the video. HRW’s critics are not using a charge of anti-Semitism to silence the organization or Ken Roth. On the contrary, Ken Roth is using accusations of anti-Semitism charges to avoid answering his many critics!

Roth is playing whatever games he can to avoid facing reality: His over-the-top anti-Israel bias is provable from his own words and from what he doesn’t say. There is no impartiality in his organization, whose very moral force is dependent on its appearance of fairness....

...Incidentally, when Roth claims that he takes anti-Semitism seriously - that isn’t true either. By ignoring the major sources of anti-Semitic incitement today, namely, the Arab and Muslim world, it is Roth that cheapens the term, not his critics.

more...
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/09/17/ken-roth-uses-anti-semite-straw-man-to-avoid-answering-critics-time-to-grow-up-ken-video/