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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 471

Kenneth Roth

Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch's executive director, speaks during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, on November 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
January 19, 2023, 9:36 pm
Harvard reinstates offer to ex-Human Rights Watch chief after Israel controversy
University says it was an ‘error’ to rescind position from Kenneth Roth, allegedly over anti-Israel criticism, but denies claims donor influence and politics motivated move
By Luke Tress
Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch's executive director, speaks during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, on November 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
January 7, 2023, 12:01 pm
Report: Ex-Human Rights Watch chief denied Harvard fellowship over anti-Israel bias
Dean of Kennedy School said to side with pro-Israel donors and veto Kenneth Roth’s position at human rights center; HRW has long been accused of bias against Jewish state
By Michael Horovitz
Sari Bashi, the new programs director for Human Rights Watch. (YouTube screenshot/Open Society)
May 1, 2022, 9:20 am
Jewish Israeli to become new programs director of Human Rights Watch
Sari Bashi, a longtime activist with the organization who is married to a Palestinian, to head up programming at HRW amid search for successor to departing director Kenneth Roth
By ToI Staff
Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch's executive director, speaks during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, on November 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
April 26, 2022, 12:07 pm
Human Rights Watch’s Kenneth Roth, longtime Israel critic, to resign after 3 decades
Nobel Peace Prize-winning NGO’s director, who oversaw the organization’s labeling of the Jewish state as apartheid last year, says he will step down in August
By AP and ToI Staff
Human Rights Watch researcher Omar Shakir, during an interview in Jerusalem, November 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
November 25, 2019, 2:18 pm
On day of deportation, banned human rights activist vows to soldier on
Before heading to airport, Human Rights Watch’s Omar Shakir says he’ll continue advocating against settlements from Jordan; Jerusalem says organization welcome to send replacement
By Raphael Ahren
US President Donald Trump (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold up a Golan Heights proclamation outside the West Wing after a meeting in the White House March 25, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
July 26, 2019, 12:44 pm
Human Rights Watch: Trump emboldened Israel to target local director
Organization’s chief says Netanyahu government taking cues from US president, who is ’embracing autocrats around the world’
By AFP
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, speaks during the annual press conference of the non governmental organization in Berlin, Germany, January 21, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
July 24, 2019, 11:25 am
HRW chief says Israel adopting Iran-like policies in treatment of NGOs
Supreme Court postpones ruling on deportation of the organization’s Israel and Palestine director Omar Shakir
By ToI Staff
Britain's Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party Theresa May speaks at a campaign event in Norwich, east England, on June 7, 2017, on the eve of the general election. (Ben Stansall/AFP)
June 7, 2017, 4:58 pm
Human Rights Watch blasts May’s anti-terror comments
After London Bridge assault, British PM vows to change human rights laws if they hinder efforts to prevent new attacks
By AFP
A Syrian man taken to a small hospital in the town of Maaret al-Noman by civil defense workers, following a chemical attack in Khan Sheikhun, a nearby rebel-held town in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, April 4, 2017. (Mohamed al-Bakour/AFP)
May 1, 2017, 8:10 pm
Syrian forces accused of using nerve gas in 4 recent attacks
Human Rights Watch says Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons is ‘a deadly escalation and part of a clear pattern’
By Carole LANDRY
Hamas gunmen in Gaza with suspected collaborators in August 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/euronews)
January 29, 2015, 8:37 pm
Human rights watchdog: Hamas, PA tortured hundreds in 2014
Annual report from Human Rights Watch also blasts Israel’s settlement policy, military conduct, treatment of Bedouins and African migrants
By Lazar Berman and AFP
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, speaks during the annual press conference of the non governmental organization in Berlin, Germany, January 21, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
January 21, 2014, 6:51 pm
Rights group calls for ‘real pressure’ on Syria
Human Rights Watch criticizes US for excessive focus on peace conference; slams China, Russia for protecting Syria from UN
By Frank Jordans
Judge Theodor Meron, president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (photo credit: courtesy ICTY website)
From the WebJuly 14, 2013, 7:49 pm
Israeli judge’s rulings making war-crime convictions harder
Reuters: UN tribunal justice Theodor Meron accused of setting precedent to make trying US and Israeli leaders more difficult, critics say
From the WebMarch 15, 2012, 2:29 pm
‘Unite for Syria’ campaign launched on uprising anniversary
Al-Ahram: International coalition of non-government organizations to lobby for UN resolution to end crisis
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