Letter from Richard Sherman to the Rutland Herald citing the article by Mark Hage for criticism as the latter quotes Zionophobic organizations to make his anti-Israel points

Dear Letter to the Editor:

Mark Hage cites Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and BTselem to support his progressive criticism of the Jewish people of Israel (" VFI Outrage").

He conveniently ignores the fact all three are proven Zionophobic organizations. The founder and former president of Human Rights Watch, Robert L. Bernstein, declared in a lengthy and famous Op Ed in The New York Times in 2009, that Human Rights Watch had devolved into an anti Israel organization ("Rights Watchers, Lost in the Mideast", October 19, 2009).

Mr. Bernstein( Harvard 1944) wrote:

"Human Rights Watch has lost critical perspective on a conflict in which Israel has been repeatedly attacked by Hamas and Hezbollah, organizations that go after Israeli citizens and use their own people as human shields.....Yet, Israel, the repeated victim of aggression, faces the brunt of Human Right Watch's criticism...

"Only by returning to its founding mission and the spirit of humility that animated it can Human Rights Watch resurrect itself as a moral force in the Middle East and throughout the world. If it fails to do that, its credibility will be seriously undermined and its important role in the world significantly diminished." ( Robert L. Bernstein, New York Times, 10/19/09).

Also, on December 5, 2022 Steven Postal in the Jewish News Service wrote that "NGO Monitor finds over 300 flaws with Human Rights Watch report on Israel's ' apartheid."

Further, Amnesty International is a Zionophobic organization that denies Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state.

See: " Amnesty's US Director: Israel ' Should Not Exist ' As A State for the Jewish people", Times of Israel, 3/15/22.

Finally BTselem constantly wallows in the antisemitic trope of Jewish supremacy, a trope made infamous by the Russian forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. ( "A Regime of Jewish Supremacy", 1/12/21)

Of course the United Nations goose steps to the Zionophobia of these three "human rights" organizations and the others that Mr. Hage cites.

As the computer scientists say, garbage in, garbage out.

Richard Sherman, Florida