Human Rights Careers is a website to help aspiring human rights workers learn more about the field, provide online courses and showcase various job opportunities.
It also showcases how much anti-Israel propaganda.is an inherent part of the larger human rights community.
Very few articles on the site target any specific country. There are passing mentions about human rights in Iran buried in much longer articles. But three of their articles are primarily written with Israel in mind.
One of them is explicitly pro-BDS and calls Israel genocidal, making Israel the only country in the world that these human rights professionals say they want to boycott.
The title is "Academia in Times of Genocide: Why are Students Across the World Protesting? There is not one word against Hamas or even mention of Hamas, starting off with, "Protest encampments have sprung up at university campuses around the world in recent months, calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine and atrocities committed in Gaza. The protests have been sparked by the events following the attack on October 7th, 2023, which led to a severe military response from Israel. "
Some people did,....something.
The article praises the students for their actions, not saying a word about their antisemitism and targeting of Jews on campus. The article then castigates the London School of Economics for refusing to accede to student demands to boycott Israel.
There are no articles calling for LGBTQ rights in Muslim majority countries. But there is one that somehow pretends that the bogus charge of "pinkwashing" in Israel is a human rights issue.
Instead of praising Israel for its gay-friendly policies, it condemns Israel for publicizing its gay-friendly policies, as if that somehow hurts Palestinians. It is a conspiracy theory that the only reason Israel helps the LGBTQ community is to hide how awful it really is. Any conspiracy theory about Israel is antisemitism.
A third article discusses NGOs helping Palestinians. Again, there is no comparable article for any other human rights issue. A number of the NGOs they recommend explicitly support BDS, meaning they are antisemitic as well.
Beyond that is the article's own execrable description of the October 7 massacre:
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has caused immense suffering, with countless individuals displaced, harmed, and killed over the years. Tensions heightened on October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel, leading to Israeli retaliation and worsening the conflict. This escalation has created a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with 2.8 million people, including 1.2 million children, in need of assistance amidst airstrikes and bombings.
Oh, Hamas attacked Israel? Like, they shot rockets or sent their army to fight the IDF?
Besides some random mentions of the Holocaust - which minimize that as well - the site simply does not consider Jews today as being worthy of human rights protections.
(h/t Jill)
