In its recent report alleging Israeli war crimes in the May fighting with Hamas in Gaza, Human Rights Watch (see analysis here) repeatedly questioned Israel’s claims that the IDF was targeting Hamas tunnels and underground command centers, saying that HRW’s investigators could find no trace of these supposed tunnels. But now comes a report from Gal Berger, the Palestinian affairs…
The Guardian published an op-ed length letter by dozens of Palestinian and Arab academics, journalists and intellectuals (including PLO official Hanan Ashrawi and Guardian contributors Raja Shehadeh and Rashid Khalidi) taking aim at the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. The letter (“Palestinian rights and the IHRA definition of antisemitism”, Nov. 29) begins with a variation of the Livingstone Formulation, by…
The Guardian continued its assault on the legitimacy of the International Holocaust Rememberance Association’s Working Definition of Antisemitism today by publishing a letter full of distortions about the definition. The IHRA definition, we should note, has been adopted or endorsed by 30 (democratic) countries, the EU Council, EU Parliament, EU Commission, EU Council, the UN Secretary General, the UN Special…