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Junio 02, 2010
Las críticas a Israel
Tenía guardada esta fe de errores de The Sunday Times desde hace unas semanas y había olvidado compartirla. A la luz de los acontecimientos de los últimos días, cobra un mayor interés. El periódico publicó un reportaje para atacar a Human Rights Watch con el caso de Marc Garlasco, un investigador de la ONG al que le descubrieron una excéntrica y algo demencial afición por los souvenirs militares. La prensa israelí, organizaciones judías y bloggers proisraelíes utilizaron la polémica con la intención de desprestigiar a HRW. Los argumentos de costumbre: los que critican a Israel son unos antisemitas camuflados y no utilizan el mismo rasero moral para juzgar violaciones de los derechos humanos producidas en otros lugares del mundo.
El periódico hizo básicamente un corta y pega de todas esas acusaciones. La rectificación es ésta:
A Magazine article, “Explosive Territory” (March 28) by Jonathan Foreman, mostly about Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) work on Israel, requires clarification and correction. The magazine said that HRW had not published any report on the post-election abuses in Iran when in fact the organisation published one in February this year.Marc Garlasco, the former senior military analyst for HRW, was not the only person in the organisation who had military experience; a number of the HRW staff have military expertise. In the 20-year Kashmir conflict HRW has published nine reports, not four as the article stated. One HRW researcher has had articles published by the Palestinian pressure group Electronic Intifada without her permission but was not directly employed by that group, as the article suggests.
Although HRW never produced a full report about the shelling at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in 2007 it did write three press releases, not one as the article stated. We regret the errors. Mr Foreman quoted a critic of HRW saying the group “cares about Palestinians when mistreated by Israelis but is less concerned if perpetrators are fellow Arabs”. In fact Human Rights Watch has reported on abuses of Palestinians by the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Iraq, Kuwait and Jordan.
Mr Foreman cited unnamed sources that said Mr Garlasco resented what he felt was pressure to sex up claims of Israeli violations. HRW and Mr Garlasco both say HRW never pressured Mr Garlasco to change his findings. We are happy to clarify HRW’s position.
Pero no tan contentos como para que la rectificación ocupara un espacio similar al del artículo original.
Posted by Iñigo at Junio 2, 2010 12:07 AM
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Los anti-sionistas somos El M.A.L.
Posted by: ifrit at Junio 3, 2010 08:51 PM