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.

  • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Or do you think they’re going to let the innocent people they didn’t murder come back now that they’re occupying it?

    Given than this hasn’t happened yet, it feels a little premature to go tossing around words like genocide.

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      1 year ago

      It seems like most people claiming Israel wants to reoccupy Gaza genuinely don’t realize that Israel voluntarily disengaged in 2005, closed the existing settlements, and withdrew all military. Or that part of the reason that Hamas was able to execute the deadliest terrorist attack in Israel’s history was due to Israel’s willingness to ease border restrictions.

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      1 year ago

      How long do we have to wait for them not to let Palestinians back into Gaza before we can call it genocide?

      Seems like the people who say it’s too early to talk about gun legislation in America every time there’s a mass shooting.

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        1 year ago

        It not being a literal active war zone is probably a good first step, I’d say. That, and “back into Gaza” implies they’ve been forced out of Gaza, which isn’t true.

        If Israel were truly attempting to eliminate the Palestinians as a people, it would take a few hours. It’s not like they lack the firepower. I’ll readily concede that they’ve been much less careful about preventing civilian casualties, and they absolutely should be criticized for that, but that’s a significant and meaningfully different thing from deliberately targeting and killing civilians.