The ‘godfather of human rights’ criticized Israeli ‘apartheid’ — now he’s calling out the left for making excuses for Hamas
An interview with Kenneth Roth, the former Executive Director of the Human Rights Watch and a fierce critic of Israel
An interview with Kenneth Roth, the former Executive Director of the Human Rights Watch and a fierce critic of Israel
The school’s dean had originally decided not to offer the fellowship to Ken Roth, but now says that was an ‘error’
Kenneth Roth, despite what you think of his comments about Israel, would have been a tremendous asset to Harvard and its students
Kenneth Roth told the Nation that the Kennedy School rejected his planned fellowship over criticism of Israel
This is the nightly ritual that lies at the heart of “200 Meters.” Mustafa, the film’s fatherly protagonist, steps onto his balcony and flicks the light switch on and off. From their bedroom in a nearby apartment building, his three young children can see the lights flashing, and they eagerly reply in kind. These two…
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…
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…
When I arrived in Jerusalem in 1989 as Human Rights Watch’s first Israel-Palestine researcher, I did not imagine the word “apartheid” applying to the Israeli and Palestinian context. But this week, HRW published a report that I edited, as the organization’s acting Middle East director, finding that Israeli officials are committing the crimes of apartheid…
מיר געדענקען די אַלע, וואָס זײַנען נישט זוכה צו דערלעבן די 76 יאָר פֿון דער מדינה. צווישן זיי — אַזוי פֿיל יוגנט