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HYPOCRISY: Human Rights Watch Opposes Israeli ‘Settlements,’ Supports Settlements Elsewhere

Josh Hammer
HYPOCRISY: Human Rights Watch Opposes Israeli ‘Settlements,’ Supports Settlements Elsewhere
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We in the pro-Israel community are certainly accustomed, by now, to the myriad of pro-Palestinian activists and political leftists who engage in rank hypocrisy when it comes to the Jewish state. In fact, the U.S. State Department’s working definition of anti-Semitism actually includes such hypocrisy as one example of anti-Semitic behavior: “Applying double standards by requiring of [Israel] a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.”

Alas, someone ought to notify the folks at far-left Human Rights Watch.

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