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Middle East Media Research Institute on Tuesday published a leaked Qatari government document claiming Qatar’s regime paid 3 million euros to HRW - Click the link for more details.

In 2020, the online news organization The Intercept revealed that HRW’s then-Executive Director, Ken Roth, accepted a $470,000 donation from a Saudi billionaire based on the condition that HRW would not use the money to protect the rights of the persecuted LGBTQ-plus community in the Middle East. 

Roth was compelled to return the donation after The Intercept report.

  • DarkGamer@kbin.social
    47·
    1 year ago

    Oxford dictionary:

    nation: a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.

    Also, ‘Arab’ is as much a single ethnic group as ‘European.’ Or even ‘Jewish.’

    Arab is a specific ethnic group that contains a lot of diversity/tribes. Jewish is a collection of several ethnic groups, and European is a region, not an ethnicity.

    It expelled, murdered and forcibly converted the Sephardic Jews. It was still genocide. I’m sure you’ll find that most Jews would agree on that point.

    I honestly don’t know enough about this part of history to weigh in. Was there intent to destroy Sephardic Jews, or was Spain under attack by them and defending itself?

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      42·
      1 year ago

      I notice you have absolutely nothing to say about what I said about ethnic groups. Is it maybe because that would mean that systematic murder and displacement of the Palestinian people would be a genocide just the same as the expulsion of Sephardic Jews from Spain?

      • DarkGamer@kbin.social
        37·
        1 year ago

        If you’re going to murder thousands of civilians just be a monoethnicity, that way they can’t retaliate with without being genocidal! Modern nations hate this one trick.

          • DarkGamer@kbin.social
            35·
            1 year ago

            Why are Sephardic Jews an ethnicity but Palestinians not an ethnicity?

            That’s how they’re categorized on Wikipedia.

            I presumed that the various Jewish ethnicities had more genetic drift than Arabs due to the diaspora, but upon further reading I’m not sure that’s the case:

            All Jewish groups were found to be genetically closer to each other than to Palestinians and Muslim Kurds.

            It’s a good question. I suspect this ethnic classification is how they classify themselves.

              • DarkGamer@kbin.social
                35·
                1 year ago

                On what basis are you making your claim that Palestinians are a distinct ethnic group? Even pro-Palestinian organizations refer to them as Arabs. As far as I’m aware, Palestinians only began existing as a group when local Arab nationalists emerged as a regional group opposing Jews in the levant.

                I think calling Palestine a nation and not an ethnicity is more accurate, but I will correct my language if you can provide me a source.

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                  41·
                  1 year ago

                  Yes, and Sephardic Jews refer to themselves as Jews. They’re still a distinct ethnic group. The difference according to you is, apparently, ‘Wikipedia says so.’