NEW: Since October 2023, the Israeli government has deliberately denied Palestinians in Gaza the minimum water needed for survival, most likely resulting in thousands of deaths.

A calculated policy.

An act of genocide. 🧵️https://t.co/UTuClydpwt pic.twitter.com/OBTmN10RLm

— Human Rights Watch (@hrw) December 19, 2024

It’s over a year ago we witnessed the Israel “Defense Minister” say that he would use water shortages as a weapon against the Palestinians, to whom he referred to as “human animals.”

Finally, Human Rights Watch has gotten around to saying this is bad.

The Guardian:

Israel’s restriction of Gaza’s water supply to levels below minimum needs amounts to an act of genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity, a human rights report has alleged.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) investigated Israeli attacks on the water supply infrastructure in Gaza over the course of its 14-month war there.

It has accused Israeli forces of deliberate actions intended to cut the availability of clean water so drastically that the population has been forced to resort to contaminated sources, leading to the outbreak of lethal diseases, especially among children.

Israel’s actions have killed many thousands of Palestinians and constitute an act of genocide, HRW argues, citing declarations by ministers in the country’s ruling coalition that Gaza’s water supply would be cut off as evidence of intent.

The 184-page report, Extermination and Acts of Genocide, comes after an Amnesty International report this month concluded that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza.

See: 14 Months After the Mass Slaughter of Children Began, Amnesty International Confirms Jews are Doing a Genocide

The medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) also issued a report on Gaza on Thursday, saying there were “clear signs of ethnic cleansing” and evidence consistent with allegations of genocide.

“What our medical teams have witnessed on the ground throughout this conflict is consistent with the descriptions provided by an increasing number of legal experts and organisations concluding that genocide is taking place in Gaza,” MSF’s secretary general, Christopher Lockyear, said.

“While we don’t have legal authority to establish intentionality, the signs of ethnic cleansing and the ongoing devastation – including mass killings, severe physical and mental health injuries, forced displacement, and impossible conditions of life for Palestinians under siege and bombardment – are undeniable.”

There were provisional orders from the international court of justice earlier in the year for Israel to halt its offensive and take immediate measures to prevent genocide being committed, pending a court ruling on whether it was already committing the crime.

Before the war, 80% of Gaza’s water supply came from wells down to an aquifer under the coastal strip, but that water is contaminated and unfit for human consumption.

Most of Gaza’s drinkable water came from three pipelines controlled by the Israeli water authority and desalination plants.

Those pipelines were cut at the start of the war and only partially reopened. The United Arab Emirates built a water pipeline across the border from Egypt in February, but that supply was cut by damage to the pipeline caused during the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) assault on Rafah.

Gaza’s three main desalination plants halted operations soon after the start of the war and were only able to restart on a partial basis after Israel allowed the UN and other aid agencies to bring in limited quantities of fuel.

Satellite imagery that HRW examined showed that the solar panel arrays powering four of Gaza’s six wastewater treatment plants were razed by Israeli military bulldozers – in northern Gaza, the al-Bureij camp and the Sheikh Ejleen plants in central Gaza and Khan Younis in the south.

Why should it take this long, unless these organizations are controlled by the Jews?

They only come out with this when it no longer even matters.

Satellite imagery showing the destroyed solar panels in the Sheikh Ejleen wastewater treatment plant.

We had videos of Jews destroying clean water supplies, on purpose, nearly a year ago.

These “watchdog” organizations are all a joke.

Human Rights Watch has concluded that Israel’s denial of water to Gaza amounts to an act of genocide.

In October 2023, Keir Starmer said “Israel does have that right” to cut off water and power from Gaza. This is what complicity in genocide looks like👇 pic.twitter.com/YTseZn3NwC

— Declassified UK (@declassifiedUK) December 19, 2024

BREAKING:

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli forces film themselves destroying a clean water reservoir in Rafah’s Tel Sultan neighborhood, footage uploaded to social media shows

Many children are without water now. pic.twitter.com/V7YYLDbK9N

— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) July 27, 2024

We are all humans.

And that means we all have a right to live on welfare in Europe.

Unless you’re white. White people are not even human.

Not after what they did in the Holocaust. They gave up their humanity when they forced those Jews to climb trees and pretend to be roosters until they fell out of the trees to their deaths.

The Independent:

European aid sent to Lebanon in an attempt to regulate migration by sea is funding practices that violate human rights, according to a global watchdog report published Wednesday.

As part of a policy to contain migration, authorities in Cyprus have physically pushed Syrian refugees back to Lebanon, and Lebanese security agencies have deported them, the Human Rights Watch report said.

The report, based on interviews with 16 Syrians who tried to leave Lebanon via smuggler boats, found that 15 of them “suffered human rights violations at the hands of Lebanese and/or Cypriot authorities.”

Rights groups have frequently criticized the tactics of authorities in both Lebanon and Cyprus in dealing with would-be migrants and asylum seekers.

…

Lebanese political officials have pushed for western countries to resettle the refugees or assist in returning them to Syria — voluntarily or not. At the same time, Lebanon has an agreement with Cyprus to halt the smuggling of migrants and has received substantial funding from the European Union and European countries for border control.

In some cases, Syrian refugees who were caught by the Lebanese army attempting to leave to Cyprus by sea have been driven to the Lebanon-Syria border and dumped on the Syrian side, Human Rights Watch said. Allegedly, some of them were then detained by the Syrian army, while others were extorted by smugglers for passage back to Lebanon.

Cyprus, meanwhile, suspended processing of Syrian asylum applications in April. Human Rights Watch accused Cypriot authorities of forcibly turning back boats carrying asylum seekers coming from Lebanon.

In some cases, Cypriot authorities forcibly prevented asylum seekers from landing, and in other cases they made it to shore but “were not given the opportunity to claim asylum” and instead were detained and then returned to Lebanon, where some were then deported to Syria, the report said.

“Both Lebanese and Cypriot authorities used excessive force at the time of arrest and during detention,” Human Rights Watch said.

You have. to have these migrants.

That is a core value of democracy, and democracy is the greatest ever system to ever exist in all of the universe.

Democracy is so good that we must force every nation on earth to accept it, and one they accept it, they must face the wrath of infinity migrants – and the wrath of gay anal to the max.

That’s who we are.

If Cyprus quit being so racist, it could become a hip-hop superpower

Let the Jews drown in their own tears.

No one who fights against the Jews deserves anything other than praise and awards.

Reuters:

An Italian appeals court refused on Wednesday to send a suspected Palestinian militant to Israel, saying he risked “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” if he was extradited.

The man, named by the court as Anan Kamal Afif Yaeesh, 36, was one of three Palestinians arrested in central Italy on suspicion they were planning attacks in an unspecified country.

Israel applied for the extradition of Yaeesh, but his lawyer opposed the request, presenting reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch on prison conditions for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.

In a written ruling, a panel of three judges in the central city of L’Aquila sided with the defence, saying Yaeesh would face “acts constituting a violation of human rights” if the extradition request was granted.

However, they ruled that he should be kept in prison in Italy because he is being investigated by the public prosecutor’s office for the same charges for which Israel had requested his extradition.

The substance of the allegation against him was not discussed in the hearing. Israel has repeatedly said detainees and prisoners are treated in accordance with international law.

You don’t really need to present evidence.

Just tell the judge “Google ‘Israeli torture.'”

It’s not a secret.

Israel makes a big spectacle of the fact that they torture people.

Ironically, many of the people protesting his extradition are leftists who want to do to their own country more or less what Israel is doing to the Palestinians

If a country doesn’t claim to be a “human rights democracy,” they have different obligations to the population.

What is insane is that the Western countries claim to be “human rights democracy,” then don’t follow their own rules, then go around trying to force those rules on others who never even made a claim to follow this system.

In a monarchy, you’ve never been able to criticize the monarch. It’s expected, and straightforward.

Meanwhile, there is no explanation as to why you can’t criticize the Jews.

If the Jews took the position that they are the absolute authority in the Western world, and that is the reason they can’t be criticized, I would respect it.

But they would never do that, because no one would tolerate them if they admitted their position as absolute authority. Instead, they exercise the powers of absolute authority – prosecution for criticism – while claiming they are victims.

AP:

A court in Thailand convicted and sentenced a recently elected lawmaker Wednesday to six years in prison for defaming the monarchy under a controversial law that guards the royal institution.

Human Rights Watch decried the ruling, saying it “violated her rights to freedom of expression protected under international human rights law.”

Tell that to Andrew Anglin, kike.

Rukchanok Srinork arrived for her court hearing in the capital, Bangkok, as her fellow lawmakers were convening in Parliament.

“I submitted a request to postpone (the hearing) because today the new parliament convenes for its first session, but the court refused. So I came to hear the verdict,” she told reporters, standing next to her party leader who was there to lend support.

She was charged over two posts she allegedly shared two years ago on X, the social media platform then known as Twitter. One tweet reportedly defamed the monarchy over links to a coronavirus vaccine and an anti-monarchy quote by 18th-century French philosopher Denis Diderot was allegedly retweeted.

Rukchanok Srinork

Rukchanok was sentenced to three years on each count under Article 112 of Thailand’s Criminal Code, known as lese majeste, which protects the monarchy. She was also convicted under the Computer Crime Act, whose broad provisions covering online activities have been criticized as a threat to freedom of expression.

Late Wednesday, the court granted her release on bail of 500,000 baht ($14,200). If it had been denied, she would have lost her lawmaker status immediately.

The parliamentarian denied she posted the tweets, calling the case against her “weak.” The plaintiff reportedly provided screenshots of the posts, but the police couldn’t find the links.

Meh. Who cares. She seems like a stupid bitch. I’ll bet she tweeted it.

If she didn’t tweet it, I’m sure Elon would be white knighting right now, providing the tweet history.

Rukchanok, 29, won a seat in May’s general election, part of a surprise victory for the progressive Move Forward Party that shook Thai politics. The win did not translate into power due to the party being ultimately out-maneuvered by influential conservative forces. She was initially a defender of the conservative establishment before switching sides and joining the progressive movement.

“The prosecution of an opposition member of parliament for two tweets is not only an appalling violation of free expression, but sends a chilling message to other outspoken opposition party members to keep silent,” Elaine Pearson, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said Thursday in an emailed statement. “The Thai authorities should quash this sentence, and cease prosecuting other cases under the lese majeste law.”

A lot more than 200 people have been jailed in Western countries for saying mean things than in Thailand, I don’t hear any human rights groups complain about that.

Her party supports “anal marriage”

Oh noes!

If I were the Jews, I would not be trying to provoke China.

This seems intensely unwise.

Chinese already have entire university departments devoted to studying how Jews control America, and therefore are behind the hostility towards China. The Jews must understand that there is zero chance they are going to listen to their whining, so this is apparently about drumming up more hatred for the Chinese in the West…?

Al-Jazeera:

Human Rights Watch has found racist content targeting Black people is becoming increasingly prevalent on China’s social media platforms where it is being used to attract traffic and generate profit.

The rights group reviewed hundreds of videos and posts from 2021 on platforms including Weibo, a short messaging app, and Douyin, the Chinese TikTok, and said it found that content often portrayed Black people through “offensive racial stereotypes”.

Such material was also found on the video-sharing platform Bilibili, Livestream and video app Kuaishou, and social media and e-commerce site Xiaohongshu, it said, noting that the companies had failed to deal with it.

How does HRW even have the resources to monitor the Chinese internet?

Where are they getting this kind of money?

(Rhetorical question. They’re funded by the State Department and the UN.)

“The amount and extremity of racist content on the Chinese internet suggest that the platforms either are not meeting their own standards banning racist content, or that their policies are inadequate when addressing racist content, both contrary to their human rights responsibilities,” the report said.

Human Rights Watch noted that influencer videos depicting Black Africans as primitive or dependent on Chinese people as their saviours were particularly widely shared, while Black people who married Chinese were accused in online posts of “contaminating” and threatening the Chinese race. Chinese in relationships with Black people, meanwhile, were accused of being traitors.

Based and redpilled.

Understand: this is the mainstream view of the Chinese.

“The Chinese government likes to tout China-Africa anti-colonial solidarity and unity, but at the same time, ignores pervasive hate speech against Black people on the Chinese internet,” Yaqiu Wang, senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch said in a statement. “Beijing should recognise that undertaking investments in Africa and embracing China-Africa friendship won’t undo harm caused by unaddressed racism.”

It actually won’t.

People in Africa have their own views of the Chinese, and are not concerned about the Chinese views of blacks.

No one in the world, other than the Jews, says “I will only enter a business relationship with these people if they love me and censor any and all criticism of me.”

Chinese people have some negative opinions of white people also. Can you imagine caring about this?

What if the Chinese canceled trade with America because of posts on the internet mocking them for eating dogs and bats? Can you imagine them doing this?

Jews are the only group in the world who demands that everyone on earth love them and celebrate them as the most important people on earth, and projecting this onto black Africans is especially absurd. The Chinese are putting a lot of money into Africa. No single African cares if the Chinese believe that marrying blacks pollutes the Chinese bloodline.

HRW is especially concerned about Chinese incels attacking whore Chinagirls who engage in sex with the blacks.

Human Rights Watch said Chinese in interracial relationships with Black people were often the target of online abuse with women being threatened with rape, death and doxing – publishing personally identifiable information without the individual’s consent.

It noted the prevalence of posts calling on the government to ban Black people from becoming permanent residents in China or from marrying Chinese people. Some also adopted racist symbols and language frequently used in the United States in their online posts, while some called for them to be killed.

Hahaha.

Chinese who condemned the racism or provided support to victims of racism were also targeted, it added.

Noting that Beijing maintains “one of the world’s most sophisticated internet censorship regimes” through the so-called Great Firewall, it urged the government to do more to tackle the problem and take steps to promote tolerance and fight prejudice.

Honestly, this is probably going to lead to Chinese social media companies further promoting racist and incel content, as the Jews are revealing their weak spots by demanding China do things that they believe will harm their country.

Chinese are not stupid, and “always do the opposite of what Jews say” is globally recognized as basic common sense.

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Much sad

Where are the blacks supposed to live???

It seems there is no place in the world for blacks.

Euronews:

Hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers who tried to cross the border were killed by Saudi guards between March 2022 and June 2023.

“I saw people killed in a way I have never imagined.” Last February, 14-year-old Hamdiya was trying to cross the Yemen-Saudi border with a group of 60 people when she heard the gunfire.

“I saw 30 people killed on the spot.”

After witnessing the scene, Hamdiya was in shock. “I don’t know what happened after that,” she said. “I could feel people sleeping around me. Then I realised they were actually dead bodies.”

Her testimony is part of Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) latest report alleging mass killings of migrants at the Yemen-Saudi border by Saudi border guards. The investigation suggests that systematic abuses against Ethiopians may amount to crimes against humanity.

Hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers crossing the border were killed between March 2022 and June 2023.

Hamdiya can now tell her story from the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, where she arrived with the help of other migrants. Although she survived the attack, she says she is psychologically scarred.

“I can’t sleep now. During the night I am so scared. I prefer people to stay awake and talk to me.”

Migrants targeted with explosivesOther ten people interviewed by HRW estimated that from 11 attempted crossings with a total of 1,278 migrants, they had seen at least 655 deaths.

“There are definitely many more deaths because it’s impossible to get an accurate figure. It’s an inaccessible area and we are interviewing people who have just fled a scene of absolute horror, they’re devastated,” Nadia Hardman, a researcher in the refugee and migrant rights division at HRW, told Euronews.

One of the survivors explained that from his group of more than 170 people, 90 were killed: “Some returned to that place to pick up the dead bodies.”

Yeah, I do that sometimes.

A couple days ago, I had to kill this bisexual fetishist wizard named Gale by pushing him off a cliff. It was only later I returned to loot his corpse.

The report states that Saudi border guards have used “explosive weapons” to kill many migrants at close range, including women and children.

“HRW has been documenting killings since 2014, but they were irregular and infrequent. When we started investigating, we didn’t expect this to be so gore,” Hardman said.

“We didn’t expect to say that (the killings) are widespread and systematic and could amount to a crime against humanity because the scale is incredible,” she added.

Yeah, well.

Actually, this whole thing sounds fake.

I’m not seeing any evidence here.

Saudi just made peace with Iran and is aligning itself with China, then all of the sudden they are accused of some kind of genocide, and there is no evidence. Similar to how China is being accused of a genocide where, suspiciously, there is no evidence.

It’s almost like all of these Jewish groups work together with the media to defame anyone who goes against Jewish interests.

(Seriously, it is insane that HRW is still quoted by the media. These people have been caught making shit up out of thin air nearly as many times as ADL/SPLC.)

According to HRW’s findings, in a number of situations, Saudi border guards asked migrants which part of their body to shoot, and then shot them at a close range. They also fired explosive weapons at migrants trying to flee back to Yemen.

Hahahaha.

What kind of “explosive weapons”?

Like, RPGs?

Did they stack their shoes in a pile afterwards?

All this while Saudi Arabia has “invested heavily in deflecting attention from its abysmal human rights record at home and abroad”, spending billions of dollars on major entertainment, cultural, and sporting events.

The Somalia-Yemen-Saudi Arabia route is one of the most dangerous in the world. Many Ethiopians try to cross the Somali border and then set sail for Yemen. From there, they cross into Saudi Arabia in search of a better life.

…

“Ethiopians don’t have much choice. There’s a smuggling and trafficking network that is quite polished and there’s the promise of job opportunities in Saudi Arabia. Those job opportunities do exist,” said Hardman.

“It’s always been understood that this is an extremely dangerous route, but I don’t think people are aware of the level of brutality and the extent of the deaths,” she added.

According to the International Organisation for Migration, only 30% of those trying to find work in Saudi Arabia are aware that Yemen – the country they must cross – is in its sixth year of conflict.

Wait, what?

You’ve had a war in a country right next to you for 6 years, and most people haven’t found out about it?

You couldn’t even Google the place before going there?

What’s the average IQ in Ethiopia?

Okay, that explains it.

Without these changes, Tunisia will not survive…

Reuters:

Tunisia should halt collective expulsions of sub-Saharan African migrants and urgently enable access to humanitarian services for those the government sent to a dangerous area of the Tunisia-Libya border, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday.

Tunisia has removed hundreds of the migrants to a desolate area along the border, a Tunisian rights group and a lawmaker said on Wednesday, with witnesses reporting dozens more put on outbound trains following days of violence.

Disturbances between migrants and residents went on for a week in the port of Sfax, and one Tunisian was killed. Residents complained of disorderly behaviour by migrants and migrants complained of racist harassment.

Thousands of undocumented migrants have flocked to Sfax in recent months with the goal of setting off for Europe in boats run by human traffickers, amounting to an unprecedented migration crisis for Tunisia.

The people expelled were of many African nationalities:

Ivorian, Cameroonian, Malian, Guinean, Chadian, Sudanese, Senegalese, and included 29 children and three pregnant women, HRW said.

“Not only is it unconscionable to abuse people and abandon them in the desert, but collective expulsions violate international law,” said Lauren Seibert, refugee and migrant rights researcher at HRW.

…

There has been a surge in migration across the Mediterranean from Tunisia in north Africa this year after a crackdown by Tunis on migrants from sub-Saharan Africa living in the country illegally and reports of racist attacks.

Tunisia is under pressure from Europe to stop large numbers of migrants departing from its coasts. But President Kais Saied said that Tunisia will not be a border guard and that it will not accept the settlement of immigrants in the country.

White women are so obsessed with moving as many blacks as possible into Europe, they are destroying Tunisia in the process – because blacks just passing through destroys their country.

I’m just like “yo…”

Then I just sort of slouch. Audible sigh.

Exhaustion.

Frankly, whores should be in prison on principle.

The Guardian:

A court in Poland has convicted an activist for helping a pregnant woman access abortion pills, sentencing her to eight months of community service in a landmark case over abortion rights in the predominantly Catholic country.

“I do not feel that I am facing the court alone,” said Justyna Wydrzynska at the hearing on Tuesday. “Behind me are my friends and hundreds of women I have not had the luck to meet yet.”

Along with Malta, Poland’s anti-abortion laws are among the most restrictive in Europe, allowing for termination only in the event of incest, rape or a risk to the mother’s health. Helping a woman obtain an abortion is also illegal.

JustynaWydrzynska, a member of Abortion Dream Team (ADT), an activist group helping Poles access drugs to facilitate terminations abroad, had faced up to three years in prison.

Bitches think murdering their own children in their wombs is empathy

She told the court in Warsaw that she had sent pills to a woman who was a victim of domestic violence, according to the Facebook page of ADT.

The woman had called an abortion line asking for help with terminating her pregnancy. Activists referred Wydrzynska to the case, after which she mailed drugs she already had at home to her.

“The pills which I had for my personal use and which I had sent to Ania are the safest way to terminate a pregnancy in Poland at the moment,” the pressure group quoted Wydrzynska as saying.

“I didn’t want Ania to risk her life by taking dangerous steps since a solution is so easy and medically safe.”

While abortion was freely available in Poland under the communist regime, the procedure became heavily restricted in 1993. Further restrictions were introduced in January 2021, making the procedure legal only in cases of a crime, such as rape or incest, or when the pregnancy risks the woman’s life or health.

However, the law criminalises only abortion-providers, meaning that self-managed abortions – a popular method of terminating pregnancies – are not criminalised. ADT helped more than 9,000 people in Poland access medical abortion in 2022.

The “Abortion Dream Team” looks exactly like I expected

ADT activists are careful to work within the limits of Polish law. They give advice on how to order abortion tablets from countries such as the Netherlands, where the medication can be legally purchased. ADT activists do not handle any packages themselves.

Ania’s case was an exception, Wydrzyńska said. The woman told her that she was pregnant and facing domestic violence. Her husband had prevented her from travelling to Germany to access an abortion. Her pregnancy was advancing and due to the early days of the Covid pandemic she did not know if she would be able to obtain tablets from abroad.

“I knew that Ania was in an extremely desperate situation, and I had a set of pills for my own personal use,” Wydrzyńska said in court. “I do not feel guilty. Hearing the details of Ania’s situation in this courtroom has only strengthened my conviction that I made the right choice.”

The package with the medication was found by Ania’s husband who notified the police. Days later Ania miscarried.

Wydrzyńska said she would appeal against the sentence.

”We are strong, and together we are even stronger,” ADT wrote in a public statement. “We will never stop supporting each other and we won’t stop helping with abortions.”

Margolis, from Human Rights Watch, said: “This alarming and appalling ruling demands action from the European Union to stop Poland’s cruel and concerted targeting of reproductive rights and their defenders … Poland’s government has shown that it will go to dangerous lengths in its attack on women’s rights.”

It’s so bizarre that Poland has these values, and then for some reason sides with the anus-vagina state of America against Christian Russia.

It’s an obvious fact that the US does not allow their “allies” to maintain Christian values, and these things will be destroyed in Poland soon enough.

Greece and Italy would both be really good countries if they weren’t being totally manipulated by Germany, which is in turn totally manipulated by the US.

Southern Europeans are much less faggoty than us ice niggers.

Breitbart:

The trial for 24 NGO workers in Greece began this week as they face allegations of aiding human trafficking and people smuggling that took place between 2016 and 2018.

The workers, who worked for the NGO Erci (Emergency Response Center International), were supposed to face trial in November of 2021 but the trial had been postponed.

Members of Erci are accused of various charges including aiding in the smuggling of illegal immigrants, with one of the defendants, German national Sean Binder, being initially arrested in 2018 for espionage, forgery and unlawful use of radio frequencies, the newspaper Ekathimerini reports.

Binder commented outside the courtroom on the case on Tuesday saying, “What is on trial today is human rights. That is the fundamental problem.”

“We are desperate to go to trial because what we did was legal,” he said and added, “And we need the judge to acknowledge that we need to get through this, because until then, there is a shadow of doubt, not over me alone, but over anybody who does search and rescue.”

Sarah Mardini, a Syrian refugee herself and competitive swimmer, is also facing trial in the case but was not present on Tuesday at the courtroom. Mardini and her sister Yusra were the subjects of a Netflix film and her sister competed in the Olympic games in 2016 and 2021.

Human rights groups have also slammed the trial including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, which stated that the trial is “politically motivated.”

Yeah – it’s “politically motivated” insofar as trafficking brown people into white countries is a political crime.

That language doesn’t make sense.

24 Humanitarian workers are put to trial this week in Greece, facing prison for saving lives in the Mediterranean.

Humanitarians and NGOs are simply doing what EU states are legally obliged but unwilling to do, and then are criminalised for it. Utterly shameful.#DropTheCharges https://t.co/Nl5wh5kdP2

— Philippe Lamberts (@ph_lamberts) January 10, 2023

Q: What is a human rights academic who won’t criticize Israel?

A: Apparently the only kind acceptable to Harvard @Kennedy_School Dean Douglas Elmendorf.

Q: Is that what @Harvard stands for, President Lawrence Bacow?

A: We’re waiting to find out. https://t.co/ZNEphF01Jh

— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) January 7, 2023

The critics of @HRW‘s reporting on Israeli repression of Palestinians don’t say we got any facts wrong, just that we focused too much on Israel, despite it being only one of 100 countries that Human Rights Watch regularly works on. They want no reporting. https://t.co/fJjw6z0isq

— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) January 8, 2023

Jews know they have to be at the head of any movement that is criticizing Israel’s human rights record.

But Jews also get actually mad about Jews who take on the role of gatekeeping pro-Palestine sentiment.

Harvard and HRW are both Jewish organizations, and Roth is Jewish.

The Guardian:

Leading civil rights organisations have condemned Harvard Kennedy School’s denial of a position to the former head of Human Rights Watch over the organisation’s criticism of Israel.

The American Civil Liberties Union called the refusal of a fellowship to Kenneth Roth “profoundly troubling”. PEN America, which advocates for freedom of expression, said the move “raises serous questions” about one of the US’s leading schools of government. Roth also received backing from other human rights activists.

But the Kennedy School found support from organisations that have been highly critical of Roth and HRW, particularly over the group’s report two years ago that accused Israel of practising a form of race-based apartheid in the Palestinian occupied territories.

The Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy offered Roth a position as a senior fellow shortly after he retired as director of HRW in April after 29 years. But the school’s dean, Douglas Elmendorf, allegedly vetoed the move.

A professor of human rights policy at the Kennedy School, Kathryn Sikkink, told the Nation that Elmendorf said to her that Roth would not be permitted to take up the position because HRW has an “anti-Israel bias” and its former director had written tweets critical of Israel.

Roth told the Guardian that Harvard’s move was a reflection of “how utterly afraid the Kennedy School has become of any criticism of Israel” under pressure from donors and influential supporters within the school of Israel’s rightwing government.

The Israeli human rights issue is so glaring and so damning that the only thing they can really do is just create massive chaos and confusion surrounding any discussion of it.

Related: Net and Yoohoo Says Israel to Stop Bowing to International Community