In 2020, the online news organization The Intercept revealed that HRW’s then-Executive Director, Ken Roth, accepted a $470,000 donation from a Saudi billionaire based on the condition that HRW would not use the money to protect the rights of the persecuted LGBTQ-plus community in the Middle East. 

Roth was compelled to return the donation after The Intercept report.

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      On what basis are you making your claim that Palestinians are a distinct ethnic group? Even pro-Palestinian organizations refer to them as Arabs. As far as I'm aware, Palestinians only began existing as a group when local Arab nationalists emerged as a regional group opposing Jews in the levant.

      I think calling Palestine a nation and not an ethnicity is more accurate, but I will correct my language if you can provide me a source.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, and Sephardic Jews refer to themselves as Jews. They're still a distinct ethnic group. The difference according to you is, apparently, 'Wikipedia says so.'