Human Rights Watch, harsh critic of Israel, details Oct. 7 atrocities
The group's pedigree as a staunch defender of Palestinian human rights may make its findings hard for those on the left to ignore
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An interview with Kenneth Roth, the former Executive Director of the Human Rights Watch and a fierce critic of Israel
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Fast Forward Harvard offers fellowship to ex-Human Rights Watch head who criticized Israel
The school’s dean had originally decided not to offer the fellowship to Ken Roth, but now says that was an ‘error’
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Opinion I’m an Israeli Harvard alum. Rescinding Kenneth Roth’s fellowship over anti-Israel tweets is a mistake
Kenneth Roth, despite what you think of his comments about Israel, would have been a tremendous asset to Harvard and its students
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Fast Forward Harvard denies former Human Rights Watch director fellowship over Israel, report says
Kenneth Roth told the Nation that the Kennedy School rejected his planned fellowship over criticism of Israel
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In a recent meeting with a representative of the United Nations, I was asked to suggest concepts that would capture the suffering my family and loved ones in Gaza endure. I froze for a moment, not only because of the surprise of a legal scholar unsuccessfully looking for a concept that would precisely capture Gaza’s…
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Opinion I left apartheid South Africa. Applying the term to Israel is disingenous.
Human Rights Watch could do with a new pair of glasses. The organization’s new report, “A Threshold Crossed — Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution,” is blind to fact and reality. Every paragraph in the 213-page diatribe serves one goal: brand Israel as an apartheid state. I left South Africa as a…
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