George Soros showers $100 million on Human Rights Watch
Transnationalist billionaire George Soros is spreading his left-wing wealth across the globe. The NYTimes reports a record Soros donation to Human Rights Watch:
George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist, plans to announce on Tuesday that he is giving $100 million to Human Rights Watch to expand the organization’s work globally.
It is the largest gift he has made, the largest gift by far that Human Rights Watch has ever received, and only the second gift of $100 million or more made by an individual this year, according to the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.
…Human Rights Watch will use the gift to add about 120 staff members to its team of 300 around the world, expand translation of its reports and open new offices. The intent, said Kenneth Roth, the advocacy group’s executive director, is to increase its influence in emerging power centers. The group, which is based in New York, investigates and draws attention to human rights abuses around the world.
Mr. Roth said that South Africa had more sway in Zimbabwe than the United States and other Western powers. Similarly, India, China and Japan are more influential in Sri Lanka. “We need to try to generate pressure on those governments, those emerging powers, now, which means expanding our capacity to deploy our information,” Mr. Roth said.
Mr. Soros put it differently. “I’m afraid the United States has lost the moral high ground under the Bush administration, but the principles that Human Rights Watch promotes have not lost their universal applicability,” he said. “So to be more effective, I think the organization has to be seen as more international, less an American organization.”
The anti-Israel bias of HRW is so brazen that liberal lawyer Alan Dershowitz took to the blogosphere to denounce it:
“Who will guard the guardians?” asked Roman satirist Juvenal. Now we must ask, who is watching Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s best-financed and most influential human rights organizations? It turns out that they cook the books about facts, cheat on interviews, and put out pre-determined conclusions that are driven more by their ideology than by evidence. These are serious accusations, and they are demonstrably true.
…Many former supporters of Human Rights Watch have become alienated from the organization, because of, in the words of one early supporter, “their obsessive focus on Israel.” Within the last month, virtually every component of the organized Jewish community, from secular to religious, liberal to conservative, has condemned Human Rights Watch for its bias. [HRW head Kenneth] Roth and his organizations willful blindness when it comes to Israel and its enemies have completely undermined the credibility of a once important human rights organization. Human Rights Watch no longer deserves the support of real human rights advocates. Nor should its so-called reporting be credited by objective news organizations.
Closer to home, HRW has spearheaded attacks on Arizona’s immigration enforcement policies, pushed for closure of Gitmo, and is crusading for civilian trials of Gitmo detainees on American soil.
Now, HRW will reap the benefits of Soros’s very good crisis. Recovery Summer indeed.
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[MM note: excerpt of Ezra Levant column redacted.]
Update: FYI, Sun Media and Levant have retracted the above-referenced column after threat of a lawsuit by Soros.
Update, September 28, 2010: The original version of this post excerpted an Ezra Levant column that contained false statements about Soros. When Sun Media later retracted Levant’s column, I immediately updated this post, noting the retraction. (See above.) Today I received a letter from Soros’ legal counsel requesting that I remove the excerpt of Levant’s article. In accordance with his request, I have done so.
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Sorry, but in the US, you have been replaced by the Tea Party movement. Maybe freedom loving citizens in other nations need to start their own tea parties.
He is the taskmaster to Obama and the left.Slave owner.
Come on…Dershowitz would denounce Mother Teresa if she criticized Israel.
2012 is the time to sic the IRS pitbulls on Soros and the tentacled beast Tides Foundation tax frauds.
Screw Dershowitz and the rest of the liberal jews. He should understand that if you go to bed with a prostitute, you’re likely to get something you didn’t want in exchange for your romp between the sheets.
To this day Soros talks with pride about how he as a 15 year old turned over his Jewish neighbors to the Nazis.
That’s all you need to know about the man.
Link or it didn’t happen.
You nailed it. Liberal Jews like Dershowitz make me puke. The Jewish community should have voted 100% against Obama. Their 70% vote for Obama was wildly insane.
Something about that culture is grossly suicidal. Maybe it’s the beaten wife problem. They keep voting for the likes of Obama, cluelessly hoping for mercy.
The memes involved probably served the culture well when any big governments were all distant and they just had to appease the local noble, or such.
Jews need to understand any animal that is okay with the destruction of Israel is also perfectly okay with the extermination of the Jews.
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/09/07/george-soros-showers-100-million-on-human-rights-watch/
You must be right – The GOP and conservatives have been the strongest allies and supporters of Israel while the Dems continually browbeat that nation, and yet too few Jews are conservative or Republicans. Willful blindness on the part of liberal Jews.
bluesoc, how could you ever doubt me?
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Meanwhile–the human rights respecting Iranian theocracy gives a woman awaiting death by stoning 99 lashes because some other woman’s photo appeared in a newspaper without a headscarf. But no problem–they may “commute” her sentence to hanging by slow strangulation–no quick Saddam type death.
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Possibly Israel could apply some Adolf Eichmann style justice to George Soros for his genocide aiding WW2 work with the Nazis. Obviously no international court will do so.
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I didn’t know there was any statute of limitations on rich Nazi killers.
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John Bibb
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Human Rights Watch: ‘Confession,’ Stoning Sentence a Mockery of Justice
Bluesoc: I took a sh*t this morning, but I never posted the event online, so you won’t be able to find a link to it soon or ever. According to you, it never happened because someone hasn’t posted about it on the internet.
(hint: the saying isn’t literal)
If there was any truth to the accusation, wouldn’t you expect at least one credible source to have posted about it online? Maybe i overestimate the intertubes
I was listening to a local radio station KTLK-FM. One of the callers was a Conservative Jewish attorney who was ostracized by his community and synagogue. His explanation for the liberal voting record goes back to the Nazi’s. They believed right wing Nazi’s have morphed into the Republican right wing in the U.S. and right wing political groups in Europe and the Mideast. It’s become more of a Stockholm syndrome brainwashing where the idiot liberal Jews in America refused to critically think about their politics and discuss the fatal consequences. But now that Obama has made Islam his State religion, they have been stunned into the realization of a major voting blunder. Obama is their enemy. These fellow Jews have apparently communicated their regret to this attorney. Possibly a great awakening for their people?
If you want human rights guaranteed then I suggest a well trainined, highly motivated American soldier or U.S. Marine equipped with his weapon, a basic load of ammunition, and a bayonet.
That is the only form of human rights enforcement tyrants truly understand.
Soros is a despicable man. He should have been hung as a nazi for his war-crimes.
AmericaFirst, there are three things in this world that are constant – death, taxes and jews voting liberal. It will never change. Obama could take a photo beside the next Iranian nuclear weapon with a banner in the background that read “Death to Israel is only days away” and the jews in America would still vote democrat.
I have interacted with the jewish community through my business dealings in the retail sector, and for the most part, they are very strategic and good business people, but when it comes to politics and their survival, they show complete stupidity.
Just like the UN, eh?
While this administration throws Israel under the bus, liberal jews are either suffering from the normalcy bias or they are hoping that it they make a pact with the devil that they will not get the short end of the stick. Either way, it will end in disaster.
This might help explain Jewicidals (a term created either by Pam Gellar or the bitter blogger who can not be named).
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/04/why_are_jews_liberal.html
Hey George throw some right my way, I’m a human, at least more so than some of those poinyoins you hang out with!
That goes firmly under the category, “I’ll believe it when I see it,” right next to blacks abandoning their robotic support for the donks.
Soros’s wealth has made him untouchable. Barring nature taking it’s course, or karma catching up to him, he’s going no where.
And, Human Rights Watch? It’s anything but!
Much like the words uttered by the social progressives, the organizations they create and support, do the opposite of what they avocate.
Any group that has in it’s title, people’s, human, union, democratic, progressive, civil, advancement, rights, etc., does exactly the opposite of what it says it avocates, and should immediately raise red flags to freedom-loving people.
When George Soros was a teenager in Hungary, he actively collaborated with the Germans to steal the property of his fellow Jews when they were deported to the death camps, so that he could stay alive.
When Steve Kroft pressed him about this on 60 Minutes, he was proud of what he did.
Soros really is a sociopath. And a very dangerous one at that.
At some point, Soros will have spread himself to thin in an effort to achieve global dominance. He is not too big to fail nor is he a spring chicken. He is evil personified!
That is part and parcel of the Leftist-activist: “the killing will continue-the revolution never ends”
Soros’s wealth has made him untouchable-for now. If these fools make their move too soon perhaps we can hang them with old ropes.
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When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed.
Is this serious? “Liberal lawyer Alan Dershowitz” who happens to be one of Israel’s staunchest defenders?
Attacking George Soros for spending his own money on causes believes in strikes me as incredibly hypocritical coming from anyone who opposes campaign finance laws, and anyone who takes a blind eye to the Kochs’ bankrolling of the tea party movement.
And speaking of blind eyes, is Michelle Malkin really going to ignore the church in Florida that’s going to burn the Koran on 9/11?
There’s not much that’s more amusing than seeing (I assume) white Christians talk about how Jews and blacks should see the world just as they do.
Great minds apparently are thinking alike. First Roger Kimball and now Roger Simon over at Pajamas Media have a few thoughts on Soros.
Great stuff.
No, it would only be hypocritical for anyone who champions Communist causes and supports groups that use lofty phrases like “human rights” to hide their true anti-Western agenda.
How much money does it cost to hold a freaking demonstration? I’ve been to these events, and no one paid me a dime. Yardstick, duct tape, placards, magic markers, gas to get there, those are about the only expenses involved, and they’re all borne by the participants themselves (the overwhelming majority of whom, unlike perhaps in many other sorts of demostrations you’ve heard of in the past, have jobs).
People are not paid to go to TP or the Glenn 8/28 event. People are paid and bused, seiu, acorn, union members to go to events.
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Just so we are clear RSS, I attack George Soros because he is a Nazi, demonstrably.
He openly admits to turning in people who were ultimately sent to the death camps. That man should be charged and tried tomorrow.
Wow, the trolls really show up to defend Soros, eh?
And speaking of blind eyes, is Michelle Malkin really going to ignore the church in Florida that’s going to burn the Koran on 9/11?
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So, you demand that MM or someone on this blog denounce that church and what they are going to do?
Okay, here it is: I denounce them. It is wrong to desecrate or destroy a book that is sacred to the followers of any faith, even one whose teachings you do not believe in or oppose.
That being said, perhaps the best thing for this particular pastor and church is to be ignored. Perhaps the less free publicity they get, the better.
Nothing racist about guys like you, eh?
Let’s all divide up along lines of race, since we can’t possibly understand eachother. That’s the ticket. But you’re not racist.
On September 7th, 2010 at 2:04 pm, Flyoverman said:
He openly admits to turning in people who were ultimately sent to the death camps. That man should be charged and tried tomorrow.
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His money has to be the reason he is still free – even alive – today. The Left will deny what he has done even after he publicly admits it. Others have been executed for war crimes for doing what he did.
George Soros? Is he still alive? He is older than dirt. I was hoping that maybe he kicked off sometime when I wasn’t paying attention. Sigh. Well, he doesn’t have many days left before he will have to answer to a Higher Power and it will suck to be him. Can’t take it with you, Georgie!
Nazi collaborators
(who publically admit to having no remorse for their actions)
fund and support the American Left.
(all together now…)
I’m shocked!…shocked!!
“That was mere foreplay. Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
(German: “Das war Vorspiel nur. Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.”)
- Heinrich Heine, Almansor (1821)
His four score and ten are near. Better give it all away now, George.
Addendum for the feebleminded: No, I do not advocate burning books or flags. That is all.
On September 7th, 2010 at 2:10 pm, Roland said:
Nothing racist about guys like you, eh?
Let’s all divide up along lines of race, since we can’t possibly understand eachother. That’s the ticket. But you’re not racist.
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It’s what they (the Left) do; support their political agenda, or they’ll question your loyalty to your race if you are a minority, or your loyalty to women (or if you really ARE a woman) if you are a woman.
I wonder if it has anything to do with this?
Personally, I’d like to set all of Soros’ bank accounts to zero.
Being a godless heathen myself, I’m not so sure about that, but burning any book in a free society seems a bit daft.
Even if they didn’t buy the korans themselves (which would be obviously nuts), the burning just reduces the supply, thereby increasing the demand relative to supply, leading directly to the purchase of more of the books, thereby putting more money into the hands of the publishers of those books and leading the publishers to print more in the hope of making even more of a windfall.
“Big Money got no soul!” – Rush
Not always true, but in this case the soul is evil to the core.
An interesting view of the book burning on the Buzzworthy (for when it gets replaced)
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2010/09/fear-of-nazi-street.html
Don’t burn mein kamph ! You’ll upset the Nazis !
Setting aside the wisdom of insulting vicious people, I am sympathic to the idea it is generally a morally good thing to insult viciously intolerant people.
The greater the chance of blowback against the insulters, the more moral the act of insult, for it reflects the greater evil of the intolerant and the greater need to illustrate their intolerance.
People in the West clearly still don’t understand what Islam really is.
On Soros: there’s enough info on this Nazi sympathizer documented on the internet to float a battleship; lots of info in Mark Levin’s book.
On burning the Koran: no, even if we hate Islam and islamist terrorists – no burning books—see Flyoverman@41.
On September 7th, 2010 at 3:13 pm, Roland said:
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The White House has warned that the Koran burning could be a threat to national security; it may incite yet more Muslim extremists to violence.
YA THINK???!!!
I don’t believe in any religion nor do I live my life in a pure manner, so I usually don’t care one way or another about any particular religion. However, I think it is important to break the stranglehold of fear that the West dislays anytime someone so much as even thinks of a negative thought toward Islam and the Koran.
If the Koran was burned every day by those in the West and denounced by other methods as well, the untouchable status of this religion would be broken. If we don’t break the status, it will continue to creep into every aspect of our culture and overtake North America. Eventually, Sharia will become the law of the land and when those that look back on its development brainstorm as to the cause of the downfall of a once great northern hemisphere of human civilization, they can look to their self-imposed limitations in tackling the evil contained in Mohammed’s crazy rantings as the cause of the downfall.
I always insult islam, Allah and Mohammed whenever I get the opportunity. I once refused a relationship with a woman because she of her Mulsim religion. I couldn’t envision my daughter being raised a slave to some pedophile’s dilerium. I am doing my part, but I don’t have confidence free-minded people will do theirs.
Fat chance.
That’s an oxymoron. Nazis are socialists.
I’m against burning the Koran. But I wonder, would the ashes be considered ‘art’? Suppose some of you got it…
You’ve got a point. This church might qualify for a NEA grant if they just put the Quran in a jar of urine.
FIFY
I have done a little cursory research on this, and it seems to really be a stretch that the man (then a 14 year old Hungarian Jew) was a Nazi sympathizer. Someone please give me your basis for this accusation.
What we learn here is that all religions are not created equally. The one which tolerates the least is the one that receives the most slack. We are to accept whatever the islamists dish out, but they will not accept anything. We have to not judge them by a few nuts who are terrorists and yet they will judge us for one nut burning a koran. We have to listen to all those chants of “death to the oppressor de jour”. When are these crack pots going to grow up and realize that is they can’t take it then don’t dish it out! For a group which prays 5 times a day, I don’t see where they have gained anything for the effort.
I oppose the Qur’an-burning. I don’t like the burning of books. I’d rather that the contents of the Qur’an, and the ways that jihadists use those contents to justify violence, be known.
[However]
The idea that in wartime one should be careful not to do anything that the enemy is likely to respond to with irrational and even murderous anger may seem tactically wise at first glance, but ultimately it is a recipe for surrender. One is already accepting the enemy’s worldview and perspective, and working to accommodate it, instead of working on various fronts, not just the military one, to show why it is wrong and should be opposed.
-Robert Spencer
Said something stupid, again. Mommy must be out of the house.
Nobody accuses him of being a sympathizer. He was apparently a collaborator. There’s a difference. He may not have liked them, or believed in what they were doing. But, he helped them, to save his own skin.
Distraction ploy:
HAY! Look over here!
B-b-but the evil capitalist corporation Target is buying elections in Minnesotaaarghh!
You might want to turn off the volume, or the stupid song is going to get stuck in your head and you’ll be retching the rest of the night.
Cursory indeed. This will do for know. In the man’s own words.
I am sure the video is on YouTube somewhere.
http://thehive.modbee.com/node/15129
Okay hotshot, now that I have answered you twice you show me he is innocent, has ever expressed regret, apologized etc. Good luck on that one.
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I think that the Pastor who is going to burn the Korans on 9/11/2010 is pretty stupid–on two counts.
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First–burning flags and Bibles is free “speech” and only offends sane people. Burning Korans offends crazy people who will cut off your head–or burn down your church.
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Second–book burning does not achieve any real improvement–it just makes the burners look stupid.
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I think the pastor should get a Kevlar collar, helmet, breastplate, greaves, etc. He is really going to need to put on the “full armor of God” to stay alive.
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I hope he has an all metal church building. And he should expect to see his casualty insurance canceled stat. We already know that steel doesn’t do very well against lots of fire–or explosives either. The Religion of “Peace” has a long memory.
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John Bibb
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I think you are missing the reason they are doing this. If they are attacked, they’ve proved their point.
Indeed, by your certainty they will be attacked you are already accepting their point as true: Islam is not the same as anything else in our world of which we are “tolerant.”
Tolerance of intolerance is not tolerance at all. It is nothing but cowardly, obsequious appeasement. And the appeased intolerance will not become tolerant. It will only demand more and more submission from the weaklings appeasing it.
I’m sorry, this is still really a stretch. It’s easy to come down on a 14 year old kid faced with death when you’ve never experienced such peril yourself (at least I haven’t), but a lot of people did things they weren’t exactly heroic (suicidal) during the war in order to save their butts, and I do not begrudge them in the least. Given how frank he is in discussing the past, I tend to take him at his word that he made no difference in the number of Jews killed, and because of his actions and only because of his actions, he saved his life.
RedStateSkeptic: Are you freaking serious? Read the interview again. He compares helping the Nazi’s kill Hungarian Jews to being a player in the economic marketplace.
If you excuse his behaviour because he was 14, then at least condem him for his attitude about his past now.
When I was a teenager, I used to break into people’s houses and steal their property. At the time I didn’t have one ounce of guilt about it, but if you ask me to comment about it now, I am shock and disappointed in my actions. I am an adult now and I can look back on my actions with remorse.
Soros, even at his adult age now, feels absolutely NO REMORSE. Think about that, he couldn’t care less about it. His response of ‘Well, if not me, someone else would of done it’ is ridiculous. According to Soros, it’s okay that people sell drugs, pimp prostitutes, scam seniors out of their retirement funds etc., because if not someone, then someone else. Hell, I might as well go around raping women or molesting little girls, because hey, if not me, someone else will do it.
Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?
RSS is defending George Soros, the man who is trying to destroy our Country! Enough said.
1. What? So you wouldn’t criticize Soros for spending his on money by giving $100m to Al Qaeda?
2. Why do you think that conservatives oppose all campaign finance laws?
3. Do you think before you comment?
What a load of crud.
What’s wrong is wrong. It doesn’t matter if one is 14 and faced with peril or not.
I’ll bet you feel bad for Charles Manson, because no one understood him.
Anne Frank was 14 years old too. I worked for a man who at age 10 helped with the Danish Resistance. They hung his father.
Every POW the NVA caught they ultimately broke or killed. To a man, all felt remorse. Soros felt NOTHING for the people he helped turn in to the Nazis. “Better men then me.” He collaborated. He enabled.
Guess what he would like to do to the people on this site who stand in the way of his worldview? I have seen evil close up and personal. I know what evil is. I have no illusions about what George Soros is.
Soros must have bought Time magazine. This week’s cover asks “Why Israel Doesn’t Care About Peace”.
He is a complete POS!