Some people are making ugly and baseless accusations against Kenneth Roth, and Human Rights Watch. For example Patwan Singh accuses Mr. Roth- a Jew- of being anti-Israel. As if!

However it's not the case that HRW is apolitical. The vast majority of the funds they receive come from Western sources. Hence HRW is, for all intents and purposes, beholden to Western interests,  America's being foremost.

To its credit, HRW will on occasion identify America's war crimes and other transgressions. But it does so lightly. They don't want to bite too hard on the hand that feeds them. Hence you won't see a timely article by Mr. Roth about the destruction of Ramadi, Iraq by American war planes. Just to cite one example.

Mr. Roth has been running Human Rights Watch since 1993. If the organization hopes to take its message world-wide, it will need a new direction.