Two Top Human Rights Watch Researchers Resign After Report on Palestinian Refugee Return Blocked

Human Rights Watch Israel-Palestine Team Quits Over Blocked Report on Right of Return

“I have lost my faith in the integrity of how we do our work and our commitment to principled reporting on the facts and application of the law,” said resigning staffer Omar Shakir.

How Human Rights Watch Killed a Report Calling Israel’s Denial of Palestinians’ Right of Return a Crime Against Humanity

Drop Site is a 100% reader-funded, independent news outlet. Without your support, we can’t operate. Please consider making a 501(c)(3) tax-deductible donation today.Omar Shakir, the now-former Israel-Palestine director for Human Rights Watch, and Kenneth Roth, the former executive director, in Ben-Gurion airport after being expelled from Israel in 2019. Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images.The Israel-Palestine director of Human Rights Watch (…

Two top Human Rights Watch researchers resign after report on Palestinian refugee return blocked

Omar Shakir and Milena Ansari step down, citing leadership’s decision to halt a report alleging Israel's denial of the right of return as a “crime against humanity”

HRW ’blocks’ report on Palestinian refugees right of return

Two researchers from Human Rights Watch's Israel and Palestine team have resigned after the organisation's leadership blocked publication of a report examining Israel's denial of Palestinian refugees' right of return. Omar Shakir, who led the team for nearly a decade, and assistant researcher Milena Ansari stepped down after HRW blocked the report, which concluded that the long-term refusal to allow refugees to return to their homes could amount…

Israel-Palestine head of Human Rights Watch quits over ‘blocked’ report

Omar Shakir, who has worked for the rights group for more than 10 years, says he has lost faith in the organisation.