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  • Human Rights Watch Parts With General Counsel for [Racial Slur] Use During Columbia Class

    04/15/2021 5:37:45 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 7 replies
    New York Post ^ | April 15, 2021 | Selim Algar
    The international advocacy group Human Rights Watch parted ways with its general counsel last week after she repeatedly used the N-word during a class she teaches at Columbia University. Dinah PoKempner, an adjunct professor, used the term 11 times in half a minute while recounting a conversation to students during an April 1 Zoom session, the Columbia Spectator reported. The decorated attorney, who is white, was discussing legal implications of hate speech at the time, according to the report. During the lesson, PoKempner relayed an anecdote that included dialogue between a Ku Klux Klan member and a lawyer associate of...
  • Why Netanyahu, or someone like him, can't lose in Israel

    05/03/2021 12:26:05 AM PDT · by Jyotishi · 20 replies
    The Pioneer ^ | Monday, May 3, 2021 | Gwynne Dyer
    It is a hard fact that the centre of gravity of Israeli politics is now far to the Right, and still moving rightwards. This will remain so, with or without ‘Bibi’ There was a tempest in a small teapot recently, as Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Israel of apartheid. That echoed the views of the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, which said in January that the current Israeli Government is an “apartheid regime.” But the official response was different. The Israeli Government ignored B’Tselem, but its Washington Embassy gave HRW the standard response to foreign criticism: “We strongly reject the...