Founder of Human Rights Watch Fights Back

The founder of Human Rights watch wrote in the New York Times that the organization seems to have lost its way in the Middle East.

Israel is home to at least 80 human rights organizations, a vibrant free press, a democratically elected government, and a judiciary that frequently rules against the government. Meanwhile, the Arab and Iranian regimes remain brutal, closed and autocratic, permitting little or no internal dissent. The plight of their citizens is being ignored as Human Rights Watch’! s Middle East division prepares report after report on Israel. Human Rights Watch has lost critical perspective on a conflict in which Israel has been repeatedly attacked by Hamas and Hizbullah.

The former HRW chair hits it home on that one.  In this article, he points out the gross oversight of HRW on the real problems while focusing almost solely on the biggest democracy in the Middle East.  Something is wrong there.  We already knew it.  Now that one of their own is saying so, I hope change happens.

Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast – Robert L. Bernstein [New York Times]