On Thursday
I wrote about The Nation article claiming that Ken Roth, formerly head of Human Rights Watch, was unfairly passed over for a position at Harvard Kennedy School because of powerful Jews who didn't like his being a critic of Israel.
The argument, as I showed then, was absurd. Even according to the article, "Roth’s tweets on Israel were of particular concern."
Since then, the "progressive" crowd has been
amplifying The Nation story - and its subtle antisemitic trope of rich Jews who try to control free speech - with
no skepticism. Roth has also been tweeting the story.
So while I had
looked previously at Roth's anti-Israel tweets many
times and identified lots of
bias and
lies, I decided to do a survey of his tweets in 2021, the year before his Harvard rejection, to objectively prove that he has an anti-Israel obsession.
I looked at every tweet of Roth's that used the phrase "war crime" or "war crimes" during the year and counted which countries he was referring to. Some tweets referred to more than one country or entity - for example, Syria and Russia both bombing civilians in Syria - and I would count tweets like that for both countries.
The results are stunning.
In 2021, Roth associated Israel of war crimes 65 times, more than triple any other country or organization.
The only reason Hamas and the PA are in second place is because of his Israel obsession as well - he usually mentioned "war crimes by both sides" when talking about Hamas rockets during the May Gaza war, but most of his tweets about Israel mentioned only Israel.
Is Israel 10 times worse than Russia? Six times worse than Syria? And infinitely worse than North Korea, who didn't get accused of war crimes once?
This is not "criticism of Israel." This is obsessive, psychotic hate, which is part of a consistent pattern we've seen over years of his tweets. And his 2021 tweets were even more obsessive over Israel than his
2020 tweets were.
But the sheer number of anti-Israel tweets, and scores of flatly false accusations of war crimes (neither
settlements nor
Israeli actions in Gaza are illegal, let alone war crimes), prove without a doubt that Roth has no credibility.
I have plenty of other evidence that Human Rights Watch under Roth was also obsessed with Israel - but the tweets are his own words, from his own keyboard, and these statistics cannot be denied. Roth has a crazed obsession with demonizing Israel. The numbers don't lie, and anyone can reproduce my research.
Harvard did the right thing.
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