Omar Shakir is objective?
Even if we ignore his pro-BDS activities before joining HRW (and he was obviously hired because of them, not in spite of them,) since he joined he tweeted this antisemitic cartoon about ISIS in Syria attacking Palestinians that claims that Jews are behind the terror group, and called the cartoon "powerful:"
But what about HRW (and Amnesty International) as a whole? Are they objective when it comes to Israel and Palestinians?
Today, the top stories at both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty websites are both about Israel.
HRW's is about this court case:
Amnesty is still pushing its months-old campaign against TripAdvisor allowing Jewish-owned tourist spots to be mentioned, clearly the top human rights issue of our time based on its website:
What a coincidence that while there are still human rights crises worldwide, both of the major human rights organizations are obsessing over Israel!
Amnesty's headline, "Stand With Palestinians," implies that these groups are not so much interested in bashing Israel as in protecting the human rights of Palestinians. Is this true?
No.
For the past few weeks, Palestinians in Lebanon have been loudly protesting laws that penalize any businesses that either employ Palestinians or are owned by Palestinians, making their already precarious existence in Lebanon even worse.
Yet the Lebanon pages at Amnesty and HRW still don't mention a word about it.
Their purported concern for Palestinian human rights seems to end where Arab country borders begin.
I'm not even mentioning the hundreds of examples of anti-Israel bias by Amnesty and HRW in the past. This is bias you can see today by just going to their websites.
When Ken Roth claims that human rights NGOs report "objectively" from the Middle East, he is either delusional or knowingly lying.