Posts Tagged: Omar Shakir
New York Times ‘Deceitful’ Coverage Fuels ‘Violent Jew-Hatred,’ Puts Jews in Danger, Israeli Ambassador Says
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, accused last week the New York Times of “overt anti-Israel bias,” saying that the Times’ “deceitful” coverage...
Top New York Law Firm Confirms Sponsorship of Conference Featuring BDS Panel Despite Unease Over ‘Extremism’
One of the world's top ten law firms has confirmed that it is sponsoring a conference this weekend promoting the so-called "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions"...
American Branch of Legal Association to Host BDS Advocates at Annual Conference
The American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA), an international scholarly legal organization, will host a panel entitled “Racism and the Crime of Apartheid...
Israeli Officials Blast ‘Apartheid’ Claims by Human Rights Watch Report as ‘Preposterous and False’
Israeli senior government officials rebuffed claims by international rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW), which accused Israel of deploying “abusive policies” of “apartheid and persecution”...
Watchdog Group Slams New Human Rights Watch Publication Attacking Israel as an ‘Apartheid’ State
A top watchdog group on Sunday slammed an upcoming publication by the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) that accuses Israel of apartheid and demands an...
Human Rights Watch Claims Palestinian Car-Rammer Was Unlawfully Killed, Demands Israel Return His Body
The notoriously anti-Israel NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) is claiming that a Palestinian who committed a car-ramming attack at a West Bank crossing earlier this...
Palestinian Rams a Checkpoint: Death, Lies, and Videotape
Two recent deaths, each captured on video, generated two different reactions about accepting truth rather than clinging to flawed narratives. Video of George Floyd's death under...
Human Rights Watch Official, Described as ‘Active BDS Propagator,’ Leaves Israel After Expulsion Order
A Human Rights Watch (HRW) official complied with an Israeli expulsion order on Monday imposed over accusations he backed the BDS movement. HRW and Omar Shakir, a US...
An NGO’s Win-Win Attack on Israel
Both ostensibly and legally, the Omar Shakir case coming before the Israeli Supreme Court on September 24 is not about Human Rights Watch (HRW) per...
Israeli Court Upholds Deportation of Human Rights Watch Official Over Alleged BDS Support
The director of the Israeli office of Human Rights Watch on Tuesday lost his appeal against deportation, having been accused of promoting pro-Palestinian boycotts of Israel, the...
Why Has Human Rights Watch Become an Anti-Israel Activist Group?
When Airbnb, the online lodging service, announced in November that it would ban Israeli listings in the disputed West Bank, hardcore anti-Israel groups took an...
Israel Orders Human Rights Watch Representative to Leave, Says He Urged Boycott
Israel's Interior Ministry said on Tuesday it had ordered the representative of Human Rights Watch in the country to leave within 14 days, accusing him...
Human Rights Group: Israel Bears ‘Ultimate Responsibility’ for Gaza Electricity Supply as Crisis Looms
Israel should refuse the Palestinian Authority's request to cut off electricity supplies to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on the grounds that it is the "ultimate...
Watchdog: Human Rights Watch ‘Deeply Implicated in BDS and Other Forms of Political Warfare’ Against Israel
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is “deeply implicated in BDS and other forms of political warfare” against the Jewish state, a watchdog group said on Friday,...
