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24 Oct 2009, 8:22 pm
  But, to take a few examples of people I've written about on this blog, the definition of "pro-Israel" would have to exclude the likes of Joel Beinin, Juan Cole,Norman Finkelstein, Joel Stork, Philip Weiss,   and Sarah Leah Whitson, no matter how "progressive" and purportedly "pro-peace" they are (pro-peace, to some people, means "Israel surrenders"). [read post]
20 Oct 2009, 9:36 pm
  Recall, for example, the speech by HRW Middle East Director Sarah Leah Whitson on human rights problem in the Middle East, covered previously on this blog, in which she spent a huge chunk of her time denouncing "Israel's [recent] wars", and a total of twelve seconds incoherently mentioning Hezbollah and Hamas. [read post]
20 Oct 2009, 5:37 am
  Moreover, Sarah Leah Whitson has stated categorically that HRW has never raised money from the Saudi government. [read post]
20 Oct 2009, 2:33 am
  Maybe the growing dismay of long-time HRW supporters like Bernstein explains why Middle East Director Sarah Leah Whitson decided to expand HRW’s donor base to Saudi elites? [read post]
10 Sep 2009, 7:28 am by Zahir Janmohamed
In the report’s press release, Sarah Leah Whitson, the Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch said:  All the Saudi Shia want is for their government to respect their identity and treat them equally. [read post]
22 Jul 2009, 7:07 pm
In her ongoing attempt to defend Human Rights Watch's indefensible, Israel-bashing, fundraising dinner with Saudi elites, with government officials in attendance, Sarah Leah Whitson has now played the racism card. [read post]
16 Jul 2009, 1:05 am
An HRW spokesperson, Sarah Leah Whitson, highlighted HRW's battles with "pro-Israel pressure groups in the US, the European Union and the United Nations. [read post]
14 Jul 2009, 6:07 pm
I blogged in June about a trip a delegation from Human Rights Watch took to Saudi Arabia, where Sarah Leah Whitson, director of HRW's Middle East and North Africa division,... [read post]
16 May 2008, 6:05 am
Responding to an NGO Monitor Report accusing Human Rights Watch of anti-Israel bias (a topic that has been covered here before), HRW's Middle East Director Sarah Leah Whitson [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 1:24 pm
Sarah Leah Whitson, the Middle East Director at Human Rights Watch, observes, "There seems to be no end in sight to the Iranian government's persecution of women's rights activists. . . . [read post]