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What makes a human rights organization successful? Its ability to bring about human rights advancements or its ability to capture extensive, uncritical media coverage abroad?
Some international media outlets covering the publication of B’Tselem’s vitriolic report last week outrageously demonizing Israel with apartheid and “Jewish supremacy” have inflated the credibility of the controversial organization by labeling it Israel’s “leading human rights organization.” Yet, a close examination of the organization’s activity and successes in advancing rights of Palestinians, or more accurately lack thereof, exposes the falsity of the title.
The Associated Press’ initial article, republished in media outlets around the world, carried the headline “Leading human rights calls Israel an ‘apartheid’ state.” AP’s Joseph Krauss opened his Jan. 12 article referring to B’Tselem as, “a leading human right group.” In the ensuing days, AP upped the ante, p