Israel: Human Rights Watch Denied Work Permit

(Jerusalem) - Israeli authorities denied Human Rights Watch's application for a work permit for its Israel and Palestine director on the grounds that it is not a real human rights group, the organization said today. In its February 20, 2017 letter denying a work permit for Omar Shakir, the Interior Ministry cited an opinion received from the Foreign Ministry that Human Rights Watch's "public activities and reports have engaged in politics in the service of Palestinian propaganda, while falsely r...