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Lay Off Israel, Human Rights Watch: Founder

Group founded to light closed societies has gone astray

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 20, 2009 9:42 AM CDT

(Newser) – Human Rights Watch has lost its way, writes founder and chairman emeritus Robert L. Bernstein. The once even-handed organization has launched a jeremiad against Israel—a liberal democracy with a “vibrant free press”—while effectively ignoring abuses in closed, autocratic societies in the...   Read full story »

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