How Human Rights Watch Killed a Report Calling Israel’s Denial of Palestinians’ Right of Return a Crime Against Humanity (Drop Site News, 2026-02-04)
>> The Israel-Palestine director of Human Rights Watch (#HRW), Omar Shakir, resigned effective on Monday after over almost a decade at the organization in protest of a top-level decision to shelve a report that characterized Israel’s decades-long campaign to deny Palestinians the right of return to their homes and land a “crime against humanity.”
>> The 43-page report formally underwent every step in Human Rights Watch’s internal review process, including evaluations by … the legal team over seven months. After that process was completed, incoming Executive Director Philippe Bolopion halted the report roughly two weeks before its scheduled publication …
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