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The human-rights world has spent the last month debating the Goldstone Report’s conclusions that Israel may have committed war crimes during its assault on Gaza last winter. Human Rights Watch is pointing out that the report accused Hamas fighters of potential war crimes, too. The group—which has lately been under fire for what critics call ...

Pro-Israel columnists and groups long accused Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental organization that tries to ferret out and document humanitarian abuses around the world, of evincing an anti-Israel bias. Earlier this summer, the Netanyahu administration pledged to put a bulls eye on the group after reports emerged that it attempted to raise money from ...

On July 15, David Bernstein published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal criticizing senior officials of Human Rights Watch, the New York-based advocacy organization, for traveling to Saudi Arabia—a state frequently cited for its own human-rights abuses—to solicit support, and possibly raise money, from influential Saudis by describing HRW’s work in the Middle East. ...

The Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal today carries an indignant op-ed by David Bernstein, a law professor George Mason University, about a recent Human Rights Watch fundraising trip to Saudi Arabia. He is partly indignant that HRW even ventured to the human rights-challenged kingdom. (Though it seems to us there’s nothing wrong with following Willie ...