1.0 link 241634 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-levy/the-swiftboating-of-human_b_241634.html Last week witnessed a concerted attack against the credibility of the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW), seeking to link supposed fundraising activities in Saudi Arabia with that organization's criticism ("bias", according to its detractors) of Israeli practices in the occupied territories, also claiming HRW is soft peddling on Saudi violations. It started in a Wall Street Journal piece, the Israeli prime minister's office and spokespeople weighed in, and then AIPAC and the rightwing blogosphere got onboard. The attack on...

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