During a Twitter exchange yesterday, Sarah Leah Whitson of Human Rights Watch responded to Ron Kampeas of JTA defending why HRW never condemns incitement by Palestinian leaders:
Can you imagine HRW ever suggesting that stabbing people to death while eating dinner might be a reasonable result of feeling rage at their government?
Can you imagine HRW ever suggesting that anyone but Palestinians are motivated to murder because of they’ve been treated “brutally.”?
Can Sarah Leah Whitson point to a single moment in the murderer’s life that would justify his murdering a family, or is the very idea of “occupation” by Israel so obviously a reason to murder that one doesn’t need anything more specific?
This is HRW bias in a nutshell.
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