Tag Archive: Human Rights Watch
NIF Grantees Protest Deportation of Human Rights Defender
The Supreme Court approved the deportation of Human Rights Watch’s Omar Shakir. Israeli human rights organizations are speaking out.
Progressive Jewish Letter of Support for Omar Shakir
We write on behalf of five American Jewish organizations in support of Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine Director of Human Rights Watch. We call on the Israeli government to cease its efforts to deport Shakir and on the Israeli Supreme Court to reverse the lower court ruling that upheld the deportation.
New Israel Fund CEO, VP Detained at Ben Gurion Airport Respond to Israel Denying Visas to Human Rights Watch:
“Every country has the right to decide to whom to grant visas. But having that right doesn’t make it any less wrong for Israel to decide to bar the entry of our colleagues at Human Rights Watch. . . this may be legal, but it’s morally unacceptable and anti-democratic.”