Any organization that relies on donations to exist is somewhat sensitive to offending a substantial block of potential donors. Possibly, HRW has lost so many Jewish donors and assumes the loss is permanent, so they don’t care, but with regard to panhandling those great respecters of human rights in the Arabian Gulf, I expect HRW would point out that Saudi is attempting to act as a peace broker in the I/P. I know the Saudi peace proposal is bogus as it carries “right of return” with it, but HRW would still hold this figleaf out and some potential Jewish donors DO do have oil sheiks as business partners(Canada’s Issy Sharp comes to mind).

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251804571092&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter

“‘Jews harvesting Algerian kids’ organs’

Haviv Rettig Gur , THE JERUSALEM POST
The anti-Semitic blogosphere and many Arab and Muslim media outlets are aflutter in recent days over accusations of an international Jewish conspiracy to kidnap Algerian children and harvest their organs.”

Surely the spreading of malicious anti Jewish gossip meant to arouse hatred against Jews is also a human rights issue.

Notice too how the articles in the Swedish paper have now taken on a life of its own. This is not unexpected and gives the lie to those who thought that the Swedish paper’s slander was not antisemitic.

After all, they made a play to pick up money from the Saudis before.

Had the HRW suspended Garlasco (or put him on leave) whilst they investigated the nature of his “hobby” and how it might affect his work then HRW might have got out of this mess with fewer bad marks against them, but as it is their attitude to the matter is rather dismissive and condescending, which is counterproductive from their point of view.