New in PJ Media: There has been one salutary effect of the weeks-long efforts of Elon Musk to gain control of Twitter, and the debate over the freedom of speech that ensued: now the Left’s foremost individuals and institutions are out in the open about their hatred for the freedom of speech. The authoritarian heart […]
Human Rights Watch slams Canada for blocking Islamic State returnees from Syria
In a surprise move, “Canadian authorities are preventing a Canadian woman and a child detained in a camp in Syria from returning home to get life-saving medical treatment.” The woman is Kimberly Polman, who is at al-Hol camp in Syria, an extremely violent camp due to those who are living there. Islamic State brides are […]
IDF Rebuts Human Rights Watch Report on Israeli ‘War Crimes’
Human Rights Watch has become, under the malign leadership of Kenneth Roth, almost comically one-sided in its endless, and almost always baseless, charges against the state of Israel. For HRW, Israel is a “colonial settler” state, a state that practices “apartheid,” a state that routinely commits “war crimes.” Recently – on July 27 — […]
Human Right Watch accuses Israel of ‘crimes of apartheid’ and persecution of Palestinians
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused Israel of committing “crimes of apartheid” and “crimes of persecution” against Palestinians, and has condemned what it referenced as “Israel’s effort to ‘ensure Israeli Jewish domination.’” The report called on the international community to punish Israel, stating: The finding of crimes against humanity should prompt the international community to […]
Cameroon: Muslims step up jihad attacks on civilians, murdering at least 80 since December 2020
Time for the UN and the US State Department to issue more statements about the threat of “right-wing extremism.” “Cameroon: Boko Haram Attacks Escalate in Far North,” Human Rights Watch, April 5, 2021: (Nairobi) – The Islamist armed group Boko Haram has stepped up attacks on civilians in towns and villages in the Far North […]
Turkey accused of ‘dismantling human rights protections’ on an ‘unprecedented’ scale
In a forceful rebuke, Human Rights Watch has accused rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey of “dismantling human rights protections” on an “unprecedented scale.” Historically (and currently), the more Islamized a country gets, the more it tends to violate human rights. That’s because it adheres to the Sharia on issues such as the death penalty for apostates and […]
Malaysia: Government steps up attacks on LGBT people, proposing harsher penalties under Sharia
Sharia stipulates that homosexuality is punishable by death, and this punishment is still implemented in many Sharia states. Days ago in Indonesia, two gay men pleaded for mercy as they were caned 77 times each, after neighbors reported them to the Islamic religious police. The Hadith directs harsh punishment against homosexuals: “The Messenger of Allah […]
Pakistan: Surge in jihad murders of Ahmadis, who are deemed apostates
Most people in Pakistan, among other mainstream Muslims, do not view Ahmadis as Muslim at all. Only in India are they recognized as Muslims by law. In 1970, in a landmark ruling, an Indian court determined that Ahmadis cannot be declared apostates by other Muslim sects because they believe in the two fundamental beliefs of […]
Just a Few Questions for Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch (Part 2)
In October 2009, the man who founded Human Rights Watch, Robert Bernstein, published in the New York Times his own criticism of HRW for the anti-Israel bias that had become so palpable under Kenneth Roth: I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group’s critics. Human Rights Watch had as […]
Just a Few Questions for Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch (Part 1)
Kenneth Roth has been the head of Human Rights Watch since 1993, and in that position has for decades displayed an anti-Israel bias which, in its sheer relentlessness, is a wonder to behold. Not everyone is willing to let him get away with it. Chief among his opponents is Gerald M. Steinberg, the head of NGO […]