Dear Editor:
One should judge a source of an assertion by the quality and truthfulness of the assertion, rather than visa versa.
Given that in Israel, all citizens have equal rights, while almost all the Arabs in the disputed territories have their own government, free of interference by Israel except when required to thwart terror attacks, the perverse libeling of Israel with the blatantly false accusation of "apartheid" by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International clearly reveal more about those organizations than about Israel.
Peter Beinart refers to the two as being "the world's leading human rights organizations." Unfortunately, their repetition of blatantly false, indeed antisemitic, accusations make it clear that while they began as human rights organizations, they no longer merit that description and all their proclamations about Israel deserve very skeptical scrutiny, as do Beinart's.
If "the fight against antisemitism [has] lost its way," it has been in not reacting quickly enough and strongly enough against the mainstreaming of antisemitism by the likes HRW, AI and Beinart.
Sincerely,
Alan Stein