[Opinion] Israel Under Fire: NGO Warfare: From Human Rights Watch to Campus Mobs
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Many of the slogans chanted by antisemitic mobs on university campuses and in major cities following the October 7, 2023, atrocities – “genocide… starvation… apartheid… war crimes… from River to the Sea…” – are propelled by an extensive network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that carry the flags of human rights and international law. Similarly, the statements and reports of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the pronouncements of the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan, including the decision to seek arrest warrants for at least two Israeli leaders – Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Galant on the claim of “starvation” – directly reflect the impact of these NGOs.
Immediately following the October 7 attacks, these NGOs launched concerted major political campaigns that downplayed or whitewashed Hamas and the other perpetrators and targeted Israel. Interviewed as “experts” on major media platforms and using social media posts, NGO officials like Omar Shakir (Human Rights Watch) declared: “Depriving an occupied population of food & electricity is collective punishment—a war crime—as is using starvation as a weapon of war.”
