Human Rights Watch and Friends Hit New Low

I’ve expressed over the years my contempt for non-government  organizations like Human Rights Watch, overpaid  meddlers whose work facilitates the  outrageous conduct of the most evil rulers and outfits. Tack a fancy name on louses and they still are louses. Noah Pollak writing for Commentary reveals they’ve not improved, but in the case of Gilad Shalit have hit a new low, not even demanding his release.

 

Tomorrow marks the five-year anniversary of the Hamas raid into Israel in which Gilad Shalit was wounded and then dragged through a tunnel into the Gaza Strip, where he remains in captivity to this day. To mark the occasion, 12 prominent “human rights” organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and B’Tselem, have issued a joint statement.

If a better example of the utter moral collapse of the human rights community exists, it would be hard to find. The statement is one of passionless brevity — just a few sentences long — and expresses no opinion on the standing of Hamas, or on its 2006 raid into Israel, or on the legitimacy of its goals and methods. Remarkably, it doesn’t even demand the release of Gilad Shalit. The most that this allegedly courageous and principled human rights community could bring itself to say to the terrorists of Hamas is that they should improve the conditions of Shalit’s imprisonment. You can read the statement on Human Rights Watch’s website.