Ken Roth of Human Rights Watch tweeted this:Something is wrong when she has lived in the United States since age 3 but isn't considered an American. https://t.co/tNZXgLsxLA pic.twitter.com/068ZTb2OKV— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) November 6, 2016
This is richly ironic - because there is one group of people that HRW believes should not have the automatic right of citizenship after a much longer period of time i a country.
HRW and Amnesty have never advocated for the rights of Arabs of Palestinian descent to become citizens of the countries that they - and their parents and grandparents - have been born in.
Palestinians in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Syria, Egypt and especially Lebanon (as well as thousands in Jordan) are supposed to be stateless, according to these "human rights" groups. Instead of citing international conventions that demand that people born in a nation become citizens, HRW and Amnesty lie about international law to demand that they become automatic citizens of Israel - even for the huge number who would happily accept citizenship in the countries they live in!
For only one group of people does HRW insist on a fictional right to "return" as superseding the right to nationality - the people who identify as Palestinians. Not to mention that the rights of Palestinians to become citizens in their host countries far exceed the right of the Mexican-born woman in the NYT article he cites to be considered an American citizen.
HRW and Amnesty have never advocated for the rights of Arabs of Palestinian descent to become citizens of the countries that they - and their parents and grandparents - have been born in.
Palestinians in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Syria, Egypt and especially Lebanon (as well as thousands in Jordan) are supposed to be stateless, according to these "human rights" groups. Instead of citing international conventions that demand that people born in a nation become citizens, HRW and Amnesty lie about international law to demand that they become automatic citizens of Israel - even for the huge number who would happily accept citizenship in the countries they live in!
For only one group of people does HRW insist on a fictional right to "return" as superseding the right to nationality - the people who identify as Palestinians. Not to mention that the rights of Palestinians to become citizens in their host countries far exceed the right of the Mexican-born woman in the NYT article he cites to be considered an American citizen.