Human Rights Watch

The law that devoured itself

International law, between universalist fiction and organized impotence

Iranian ballistic missile cluster munitions strike dozens of sites in Israeli cities

Iran’s increasing use of ballistic missiles containing cluster munitions has spread damage and harm across Israel. On April 6, as many as 50 sites were impacted by missiles and their cluster...

Islamist Turkey: A Base for Muslim Brotherhood Jihadism

How Turkey Props up Venezuela

The government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan has provided an unexpected sanctions evasion lifeline for Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela.

Hybrid Warfare in Europe Against U.S. Interests

Moscow and Beijing’s Playbook

Iran Steps Up Persecution of Baha’i Faith 

Increased Targeting of Baha’i Minority Since War With Israel: Iranian authorities have increased efforts to target members of the Baha’i faith, subjecting Baha’i citizens...

Trojan Horse

China's Auto Threat to America

Biotech Battlefield

Weaponizing Innovation in the Age of Genomics

MSCI Continues Anti-Israel ESG Ratings as Morningstar Removes Its Own

The reliability of the New York-based investment research firm MSCI’s environmental, social, governance (ESG) ratings for thousands of U.S. and international enterprises is undergoing critical scrutiny...

What’s Driving MSCI’s Anti-Israel ESG Ratings

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How Facebook Whitewashes ‘From the River to the Sea’

The brilliance of the slogan “From the river to the sea,” is that it allows protesters to call for dismantling the State of Israel, and then insist that they have articulated nothing more than “an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence.” ...

MSCI’s Anti-Israel ESG Ratings Merit State and Federal Investigations

The New York-based MSCI, Inc., imposed “severe controversy” environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings on two Illinois-based companies for doing business in territories controlled by Israel,...

A greatly expanded arsenal means this is not the Hezbollah of 2006

Hezbollah launched dozens of rockets into northern Israel on Sunday. That attack followed a July 4 assault in which the terror group fired approximately 200 projectiles and over 20...

Why the Biden Administration’s Iran Sanctions Waivers Are Futile

The Islamic Republic also has a history of diverting resources intended for humanitarian purposes.

The second war against the Jews 

Iran’s rulers are globalizing it

10 Things to Know About Hamas and Hospitals

Hamas has commanded a network of tunnels and terror infrastructure in the Gaza Strip since it took control in 2007. The Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorist organization uses civilian...

The Real Gaza Hospital Crisis

The media firestorm over whether Israel attacked the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza is over. It was an errant rocket shot by the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad group that exploded near the compound. But another media...

Guess the new Human Rights Watch director’s first target. Yup: Israel

For the first time in 30 years, Human Rights Watch has a new executive director, Tirana Hassan. Within days of taking office, she turned her fire on Israel.  “This is a government that’s...

A Strategy to End the Systematic Theft of Humanitarian Aid in Syria

Arsenal

Assessing the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ballistic Missile Program