Israel Matzav

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

'Human rights watch' official, AP and AFP reporters, trash Israel in private Facebook group

A 'human rights watch' official, and several foreign correspondents for AP and AFP, trashed Israel in a private Facebook group after the Israeli government released a report exposing Muhammad al-Dura's 'death' as a fraud.

A “secret” Facebook group of foreign correspondents and human rights activists quickly devolved into an anti-Israel hate-fest on Tuesday following the release of a new Israeli government report that cleared the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of wrongdoing in the 2000 death of a Palestinian boy.

The Israeli government report contests the claim that the IDF killed a Palestinian boy, Muhammad al-Durrah, in a famous 2000 incident in Gaza that helped ignite the Second Intifada.

Journalists and activists mocked the report, attacked the IDF, and claimed pro-Israel lobbyists were influencing the media coverage, in a private Facebook group for foreign correspondents known as the “Vulture Club.”

Peter Bouckaert, a senior official at Human Rights Watch, dismissed the report as “typical IDF lies.”

“As usual, it takes them a long time to really build up the falsehood,” wrote Bouckaert.

Bouckaert also blasted the New York Times for its coverage of the report.

“It really isn’t good journalism to write this up as if these are credible allegations when it is a pack of lies,” he wrote.

Correspondents from numerous outlets, including the Associated Press and the Agence France-Presse, also piled on.

According to my sources, Bouckaert was the direct supervisor of Marc Garlasco at 'human rights watch.' Garlasco was the organization's senior military analyst until he was suspended in September 2009 after his hobby of collecting Nazi memorabilia was uncovered by bloggers.

Read the whole thing. It includes a screen cap of the Facebook page in question.

The Vulture Club has about 3,500 members. It's not a small group.

Labels: France 2, Human Rights Watch, Marc Garlasco, Mohamed al-Dura, Pallywood, Phillippe Karsenty

Wednesday, March 09, 2011

The 'Human Rights Watch' hierarchy

Here's a look at some of the people in the hierarchy of 'Human Rights Watch' (Hat Tip: Shy Guy).

A deep look into the HRW’s hierarchy reveals their anti Israel agenda:

-The former Human Rights Watch’s military expert, Marc Garlasco, is a collector of Hitlerian memorabilia.

-According to the Ngo Monitor, Joe Stork, Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Division, took part in a conference on “Zionism and Racism” at the University of Baghdad in 1976, under the auspices of Saddam Hussein.

-Sarah Leah Whitson, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Division, promoted boycott campaigns against Israel.

-Researcher Lucy Mair worked for the radical website “Electronic Intifada”.

-Associate Nadia Barhoum campaigned to divest from Israel.

-Staff member Darryl Li, promoted a project on the “Israeli war criminals” at Harvard.

-The “European Press Director”, Reed Brod,y took an active role in the effort to bring Ariel Sharon to trial in Belgium.

-The vice chair of the Human Rights Watch board was instrumental in inviting Iran’s Ahmadinejad to Columbia University in 2007.

The motivation behind this article is the appointment of Shawan Jabarin to the board of 'Human Rights Watch' board, but perhaps there is something else they are missing. I am working on it. More later if I find something.

Labels: Human Rights Watch, Joe Stork, Marc Garlasco, NGO Monitor, Sarah Leah Whitson