Harvard’s Cave-In to Human Rights Watch Is Part of a Bigger Problem

Many quasi-research entities which have sprung up at universities across the country whose purposes are more causist than scholarly.

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Human Rights Watch's executive director, Kenneth Roth, at Beirut on January 29, 2015. AP/Bilal Hussein, file

The decision  by the dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard to  reverse his veto of a fellowship for Kenneth Roth, the ex-head of Human Rights Watch, should dismay those long concerned by  the group’s disproportionate criticism of Israel.  One may have questions about Israeli policies, but Human Rights Watch is not one for nuance. 

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