In 2020, the online news organization The Intercept revealed that HRW’s then-Executive Director, Ken Roth, accepted a $470,000 donation from a Saudi billionaire based on the condition that HRW would not use the money to protect the rights of the persecuted LGBTQ-plus community in the Middle East. 

Roth was compelled to return the donation after The Intercept report.

  • @[email protected]
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    -11 year ago

    The “genocide” debate here is activists trying to seize the high ground after Hamas’s hideous acts. Their hope, after an assault of such barbarity, is to label the response “genocidal” and hope that people chase that shiny lure instead of remembering why this war happened at all.

    • Flying Squid
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      41 year ago

      So all the children they killed were part of Hamas?

      • @[email protected]
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        -41 year ago

        Quite the strawman. People deploying the word “genocide” are either ignorant of what the word means or are intentionally misusing it for political purposes because they would otherwise be faced with having to discuss why this war began at all. Word play debates do little to alleviate people’s suffering. Denial of the other side’s humanity & dueling victimhood, eliminate empathy. We’ve had FEW cases of legal genocide since 1948, the question is how do these debates help long term?

        • Flying Squid
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          61 year ago

          You were the one who said they were doing it to stop Hamas. So were the 5000+ children part of Hamas or not?

          Also, ‘legal genocide’ is weaseling out of this. Trump didn’t ‘legally’ commit rape against E. Jean Carroll. He still raped her.

          • @[email protected]
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            -41 year ago

            You were the one who said they were doing it to stop Hamas. So were the 5000+ children part of Hamas or not?

            Again, you are forcing a strawman. This war began with the barbarity of October 7th. As with all wars, there are civilian causality.

            I also wouldn’t put too much faith in the numbers as they come from Hamas. Not only do they not differentiate between their own members and civilians, but have been known to fabricate for propaganda purposes as I explained.

            Also, ‘legal genocide’ is weaseling out of this.

            The term genocide is a criminal charge and has a legal definition. Making up a definition is weaseleing out, not using a proper legal definition

            Trump didn’t ‘legally’ commit rape against E. Jean Carroll.

            Actually, the judge said he did commit rape.

              • @[email protected]
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                -41 year ago

                How many wars kill 5000 children in less than 2 months?

                Syria, Libya, Yemen, Ethiopia, Somalia, etc etc

                Millions dead. Almost 40 million forcibly displaced.

                He was not legally found to have raped her

                When the judge says you’re guilty, you’re guilty.

                • Flying Squid
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                  51 year ago

                  The judge did not say he was legally guilty of rape. Read the article.