Volume 53, Number 17 · November 2, 2006
The Attack on Human Rights Watch
By Aryeh Neier
On August 3—three weeks after a Lebanese Hezbollah raid into Israel set off a war that lasted until August 14—Human Rights Watch published a report, 'Fatal Strikes: Israel's Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Lebanon,' that inspired a series of vitriolic attacks on the organization's credibility. According to some of the critics, the organization's executive director, Kenneth Roth, is biased against Israel and an anti-Semite. Unfortunately, the criticisms are based on misunderstandings and distortions of international humanitarian law. They contribute to an atmosphere that makes rational discussion in the United States of Israel's policies and practices increasingly difficult.
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