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Kenneth Roth

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Former Human Rights Watch executive director (1993-2022). Now senior fellow, Yale University (Law and Jackson). My book: "Righting Wrongs" (Knopf/Allen Lane).
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    Kenneth Roth
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    Mar 1, 2025
    This isn't the first time the US government stood on the wrong side of an essential human rights challenge. In my new book, "Righting Wrongs," I explain how the human rights movement repeatedly circumvented and overcame US obstruction. We can do it again.
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    Righting Wrongs by Kenneth Roth: 9780593686973 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
    From the long-time head of Human Rights Watch, the fascinating and inspiring story of taking on the biggest villains and toughest autocrats around the world “A remarkable book that will...
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    Kenneth Roth
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    Leave it to Trump to ignore deadly violence by his deportation agents but to investigate the people who protest against their outrages. I explain in the Guardian:
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    Trump’s spying on leftwing groups recalls J Edgar Hoover’s Cointelpro | Ken Roth
    From theguardian.com
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    Kenneth Roth
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    The petty, vindictive Trump reduces US military exercises with South Korea evidently because South Korea didn't join his counterproductive war of choice against Iran.
    In his post on Sunday, President Trump did not mention a rift in relations with North Korea in 2017, when Kim Jong Un called him a “mentally deranged dotard.”
    Trump Orders Pentagon to Curtail Military Exercises With Ally South Korea
    From nytimes.com
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    Kenneth Roth
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    Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir advocates killing 30-40 people each night in Gaza: "Not just those who pose an immediate threat -- there are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people.”
    Israel's Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, prays during the mourning ritual of Tisha B'Av at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, July 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
    Israel's Ben Gvir advocates killing '30 to 40' people in Gaza nightly while speaking to ex-hostage
    From apnews.com
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    Kenneth Roth
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    Israeli defense minister Israel Katz's plan to give responsibility for protecting Palestinians in the occupied West Bank to Israeli police would "put the fox in charge of the henhouse" because the police are overseen by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, an extremist
    Israeli soldiers patrolling a street Thursday during an operation in the village of Qusra, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
    As Army Fails to Protect Palestinians, Israeli Leaders Sympathize With Settlers
    From nytimes.com

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