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Jul 15 2009, 1:17 pm by Marc Ambinder

Did a staff member for Human Rights Watch attempt to raise funds in Saudi Arabia by advertising your organization's opposition to the pro-Israel lobby? The answer, apparently, is yes, reports Jeffrey Goldberg.

Comments (2)

AlchemyToday July 15, 2009 1:46 PM

Since Goldberg doesn't allow comments, I'll just point out here that it's somewhat ridiculous to bait someone into writing a thousand words or so and then take one sentence out of context to claim that HRW thinks it's fighting a war against all of Israel's supporters. In every other e-mail in the conversation it's abundantly obvious that Roth is talking about "reflexive defenders of Israel," or those involved in the "cottage industry out there devoted to criticizing anyone who criticizes Israel." Not every defender of Israel, but the subset of them that defends Israel against every attack regardless of its merit. Goldberg's rank dishonesty in his quest for a quote to inaccurately paraphrase doesn't do much to prove that HRW isn't up against sometimes deceptive defenders of Israel, does it?

NGO Monitor July 16, 2009 7:21 AM

NGO Monitor's May 27 report revealing HRW's Saudi Arabian (mis)adventures is part of the ongoing and systematic analysis of this NGO superpower's confused mix of speculation, pseudo-research, ideology, and international legal rhetoric. See http://tinyurl.com/mp6yyz, http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/human_rights_watch_hrw_