The outgoing Senior Editor of Human Rights Watch has a message for her colleagues: the organization doesn’t treat the lives of Israelis as having equal worth to those of Palestinians.

In other words, some humans have more rights than others, and Jewish lives count less.

Outgoing Sr Editor of Human Rights Watch: “years of institutional creep culminated in organizational responses that shattered professionalism, abandoned principles of accuracy and fairness, and surrendered its duty to stand for the human rights of all”https://t.co/k8kJxo0XW8

— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) November 16, 2023

The message was blunt and obviously correct. HRW didn’t make an unequivocal denunciation of Hamas’ pogrom against the Jews on October 7th but instead did the whole mealymouthed moral equivalence dance that Hamas supporters do when addressing Western audiences.

Danielle Haas, in an email sent to all employees of the organization upon her departure, let them have it between the eyes:

“Following the Hamas massacres in Israel on October 7, years of institutional creep culminated in organizational responses that shattered professionalism, abandoned principles of accuracy and fairness, and surrendered its duty to stand for the human rights of all,” Danielle Haas wrote in an internal email to over 500 HRW employees, which she sent on Tuesday — her final day on the job. The email was leaked to The Times of Israel.

Gee, I could have said that, but then again I am a conservative and nobody in the MSM would take me seriously.

Then again, nobody in the MSM will take her seriously either, because she is saying something they don’t want to hear. After all, the MSM repeats uncritically anything Hamas says, while casting doubt on anything the Israelis say, even if intelligence agencies from other countries confirm the fact.

In the case of al Shifa hospital, for instance, The New York Times had reported as early as 2008 and for years afterward that it was a Hamas base, but during this conflict, everybody is casting doubt on what is obviously true. The US government declassified information and shared it with reporters confirming the facts, yet it is still treated as hearsay.

Haas pulls no punches about how HRW has treated Israel:

Haas was a senior editor at HRW for 13 years after working as a journalist for the Associated Press and Reuters, covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“HRW’s initial reactions to the Hamas attacks failed to condemn outright the murder, torture, and kidnapping of Israeli men, women, and children. They included the ‘context’ of ‘apartheid’ and ‘occupation’ before blood was even dry on bedroom walls,” Haas wrote in her email to staff.

“These responses were not, as some have since characterized it internally, a messaging misstep in the tumult after the Hamas assault. It was not the failure of a few to follow robust internal mechanisms of editing and quality control, as others have claimed,” she charged.

“It did not happen in a vacuum. Rather, HRW’s initial response was the fruition of years of politicization of its Israel-Palestine work that has frequently violated basic editorial standards related to rigor, balance, and collegiality, when it comes to Israel,” Haas alleged.

HRW has been highly critical of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians and its occupation of the West Bank. Haas acknowledged that criticism is valid but said that HRW went well beyond that.

She pointed to the Israel chapter in HRW’s annual global review of human rights, which Haas oversaw for more than a decade and claimed “has always been longer than those of rights-abusing goliaths such as Iran and North Korea.”

She panned HRW’s 2021 report accusing Israel of practicing apartheid not just in the West Bank but in Israel proper as well. “HRW knew its careful, legal argument would rarely be read in full. And there is little doubt it has not been by those—including Hamas supporters—who now bandy about the term with appalling ease.”

The hostility to Israel in the mainstream seemed to kick up a notch during the Obama Administration, reflecting Obama’s hostility to anything that smelled of “colonialism.” While Israel itself was created by the United Nations, the initial legal groundwork was laid during the aftermath of World War I when Great Britain held a mandate from the League of Nations to administer the territory, which had been part of the defunct Ottoman Empire.

Obama hated Great Britain, and famously had the bust of Winston Churchill removed from the Oval Office. It is my impression that following Obama much of the transnational elite in shifting attitudes toward Israel, which until then had the backing of the West without much question.

Haas cited the first statement issued by HRW after the October 7 massacre, asserting that it “barely addressed what had happened, contrasting starkly with its thousands of statements over the years condemning a range of human rights abuses.”

HRW wrote at the beginning of its press release: “Palestinian armed groups carried out a deadly assault on October 7, 2023, that killed several hundred Israeli civilians and led to Israeli counterstrikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians.”

Omar Shakir, HRW’s Israel and Palestine director, said in that report, “The unlawful attacks and systematic repression that have mired the region for decades will continue, so long as human rights and accountability are disregarded” — which Haas asserted “could easily be construed as blaming the victim.”

The idea behind HRW is a good one. I like the idea of organizations not affiliated with governments shining a light from without. But as with any other type of organization, ideological capture is a constant threat. Look at the ACLU, which actually used to care about civil liberties, but now focuses on alphabet ideology.

What type of school plays do your kids put on?

These Palestinian children role play murdering Israelis and becoming “martyrs.” pic.twitter.com/mUDs9LjlAY

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) November 8, 2023

Worse than HRW, though, is the United Nations, which is almost unequivocally behind Hamas where it counts: pouring money into Gaza and running its schools. Schools in which hatred for Jews and exalting of “martyrdom” are the foundational principles.

This is a school run by UNRWA, which is the United Nations org that takes care of millions of Palestinian refugees.

US taxpayers are paying about 20% to 25% of the budget for this type of education for Palestinian children. https://t.co/r3jDP3vfta

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) November 7, 2023

The hatred for Israel in our international organizations is everywhere.

It’s almost as if the “human rights” don’t apply to Jews. Where have I heard that before?