Dear Editor:
It doesn't take much fact checking to demonstrate that Human Rights Watch, which started out as the exemplary Helsinki Watch, has changed from a guardian of human rights to a demented hate group obsessed with demonizing the world's only Jewish state.
In Israel, Arabs are full citizens with rights equal to those of all others.
In the disputed territories (deliberately mislabelled "Occupied Palestinian Territories" by HRW), not only are almost all the Arabs living under their own government, but the population of Arabs in the portion governed by Israel has risen dramatically, obviously because they prefer Israeli rule to that of their own governments (Hamas in Gaza, the Palestinian Authority in Areas A and B of Judea and Samaria, the latter dominated by Fatah, with both Hamas and Fatah being terror groups).
Not only that, but in the Palestinian Authority, it's a capital crime to sell land to Jews!
Yet Human Rights Watch libels Israel by charging it with Apartheid!
Sincerely,
Alan Stein