With a little help from his 275 staff members, Human Rights Watch director Ken Roth voices moral outrage on his Twitter feed once every hour, 24 times a day, seven days a week.
Yet when a Hamas terrorist today rammed his car into a crowd of Israelis in Jerusalem, and then got out to attack them further with an iron bar, Ken Roth’s voice suddenly turned into that of a neutral Swiss reporter.
Here are the standard Roth tweets, criticizing, demanding, condemning:
When it reviews #Egypt, UN Human Rights Council should press to stop imminent threat to shut most prominent NGOs. http://t.co/Xl4Vx7FAyb
— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) November 5, 2014
#Hungary PM Orban flouts European values with his Putinesque "illiberal democracy" but so far EU & NATO just shrug. http://t.co/HECBg5GpcD
— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) November 4, 2014
GCHQ massive invasion of our privacy helped sparked encryption backlash but new GCHQ head faults only the encryptors. http://t.co/hTcKCWI6w5
— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) November 4, 2014
And here, suddenly switching to an unfamiliar just-report-the-facts mode, is Roth’s anodyne tweet after today’s attack, in which Hamas terrorist killed one and injured a dozen more:
For 2nd time in 2 weeks, Palestinian drives his car to target Jerusalem train stop, killing 1. http://t.co/egWhWYrMP3 pic.twitter.com/F5op0ldI9r
— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) November 5, 2014
Less than an hour later, however, Roth immediately switched back to moral outrage — to criticize Israel:
#Israel's calling Hamas rocket attacks and tunnels "terrorism" doesn't change its duty to respect Geneva Conventions. http://t.co/msoCQEvFZi
— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) November 5, 2014
Roth’s weird personal obsession with Israel is what caused Human Rights Watch founder Robert Bernstein to quit in 2009, and was exposed in detail by The New Republic.
