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'''Joe Stork''' is an American political activist and Deputy Director for Middle East and North Africa at [[Human Rights Watch]]. He holds an M.A. in International Affairs/Middle East Studies from Columbia University.<ref name=hrw_bio>http://www.hrw.org/en/bios/joe-stork</ref>
'''Joe Stork''' is an American political activist and Deputy Director for Middle East and North Africa at [[Human Rights Watch]]. He holds an M.A. in International Affairs/Middle East Studies from Columbia University.<ref name=hrw_bio>http://www.hrw.org/en/bios/joe-stork</ref>


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===Controveries===
===Controveries===
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According to ''Tablet Magazine'', Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared political war on Human Rights Watch, the employer of Stork, and other non-government organizations that investigate Israel's human rights record. “We will dedicate time and manpower to combating these groups,” Netanyahu’s chief policy adviser, Ron Dermer, told the paper. “We will insist that they defend their record and their values.”<ref name=broken_watch /> [[Mark Regev]], spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister [[Binyamin Netanyahu]] then stated that "a whole series of individuals who work in the Middle East department of Human Rights Watch have histories in partisan anti-Israeli politics," including Stork, and said that "This is the real story, because Human Rights Watch is claiming to be objective, professional and credible, yet all the evidence points to the contrary."<ref>HRW analyst suspended over Nazi items, E.B. SOLOMONT AND HERB KEINON, Jerusalem Post, Sept. 16, 2009 [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251804580113&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull]</ref>
According to ''Tablet Magazine'', Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared political war on Human Rights Watch, the employer of Stork, and other non-government organizations that investigate Israel's human rights record. “We will dedicate time and manpower to combating these groups,” Netanyahu’s chief policy adviser, Ron Dermer, told the paper. “We will insist that they defend their record and their values.”<ref name=broken_watch /> [[Mark Regev]], spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister [[Binyamin Netanyahu]] then stated that "a whole series of individuals who work in the Middle East department of Human Rights Watch have histories in partisan anti-Israeli politics," including Stork, and said that "This is the real story, because Human Rights Watch is claiming to be objective, professional and credible, yet all the evidence points to the contrary."<ref>HRW analyst suspended over Nazi items, E.B. SOLOMONT AND HERB KEINON, Jerusalem Post, Sept. 16, 2009 [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251804580113&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull]</ref>

[[Ben-Dror Yemini]], an op-ed columnist for the newspaper [[Ma’ariv]], accused Stork in an op-ed of attending a 1976 anti-Israel conference in Syria organized by Saddam Hussein, after which, according to Yemini, he wrote "bitterly anti-Zionist screeds at roughly the same time." This provoked a heated letter from Mr. Stork, who said he had written exposes against Hussein in the 1970s and did not espouse the anti-Zionist views attributed to him. In August 2009, Yemini accused Stork in another op-ed of supporting the [[Munich massacre|1972 Munich Massacre]], quoting Stork as having said, <blockquote>“Munich and similar actions cannot create or substitute for a mass revolutionary movement. But we should comprehend the achievement of the Munich action… It has provided an important boost in morale among Palestinians in the camps.”<ref>[[Ben-Dror Yemini]], [http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AWXYV56qlacKZGdwYzRoYzlfMTMyZDc5OHpqeGc&hl=en The Big Lie of HRW : Author of Report Against Israel Supported Munich Massacre], 16.8.2009, orginally [http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/930/244.html published in Hebrew] in [[Maariv]]</ref><ref> [http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/76201 ''Commentary''] </ref></blockquote> [[Noah Pollak]], writing for [[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary]], condemns what he views as Stork's "explicit support of terrorism against Israel," and that Stork "lauded the murder of Israeli athletes at Munich in 1972.<ref> [http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/76201 ''Commentary''] </ref>
According to [[NGO Monitor]] Stork responded to this and other quotes purporting to show his support [[Palestinian political violence|Palestinian terrorism]]: <blockquote>“Most of them I do not recognize, and they are contrary to the views I have expounded for decades now. For instance, selective excerpts about the Munich massacre come from an unsigned editorial that appeared 37 years ago where at the time I was one of seven volunteers that produced the publication.”<ref> [http://ngo-monitor.org/article.php?viewall=yes&id=2598 NGO Monitor] </ref> "All my work since then shows that I would never support such an attack." <ref> [http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgpc4hc9_133hnfjbwcj] </ref> </blockquote>


A group of 10 Israeli rights groups has protested that the Israeli government has been attempting to "instill fear and silence or alarm vital organizations" that were engaging in free public discourse.<ref name=NPR>[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112900014&ps=cprs ''NPR'':
A group of 10 Israeli rights groups has protested that the Israeli government has been attempting to "instill fear and silence or alarm vital organizations" that were engaging in free public discourse.<ref name=NPR>[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112900014&ps=cprs ''NPR'':

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Joe Stork is an American political activist and Deputy Director for Middle East and North Africa at Human Rights Watch. He holds an M.A. in International Affairs/Middle East Studies from Columbia University.[1]

Career

Before joining Human Rights Watch in 1996, Stork co-founded the Middle East Research & Information Project MERIP[1] and was editor of the Middle East Report.[2] Stork served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkey.[1] He presently serves as Chair of the Middle East Studies Association's Committee on Academic Freedom and sits on the advisory committees of the American Friends Service Committee, Foreign Policy in Focus and the Iraq Revenue Watch project of the Open Society Institute[3]

Controveries

According to Tablet Magazine, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared political war on Human Rights Watch, the employer of Stork, and other non-government organizations that investigate Israel's human rights record. “We will dedicate time and manpower to combating these groups,” Netanyahu’s chief policy adviser, Ron Dermer, told the paper. “We will insist that they defend their record and their values.”[4] Mark Regev, spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu then stated that "a whole series of individuals who work in the Middle East department of Human Rights Watch have histories in partisan anti-Israeli politics," including Stork, and said that "This is the real story, because Human Rights Watch is claiming to be objective, professional and credible, yet all the evidence points to the contrary."[5]

A group of 10 Israeli rights groups has protested that the Israeli government has been attempting to "instill fear and silence or alarm vital organizations" that were engaging in free public discourse.[6]

Stork's reports have caused a rift between Human Rights Watch and Sid Sheinberg, vice-chair of HRW’s board.”[4]

Books and other publications

  • Political Islam: A Reader with Joel Beinin
  • Political Islam: Essays from "Middle East Report" with Joel Beinin
  • Middle East Oil and the Energy Crisis

References

  1. ^ a b c http://www.hrw.org/en/bios/joe-stork
  2. ^ American Expressions of Relief over Iran-Iraq Peace, AMERICAN EXPRESSIONS OF RELIEF OVER IRAN-IRAQ PEACE, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Aug 22, 1988.
  3. ^ http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Stork
  4. ^ a b Broken Watch; Does Human Rights Watch have an Israel problem?, Allison Hoffman, Tablet Magazine, Aug. 26, 2009 [1]
  5. ^ HRW analyst suspended over Nazi items, E.B. SOLOMONT AND HERB KEINON, Jerusalem Post, Sept. 16, 2009 [2]
  6. ^ [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112900014&ps=cprs NPR: Rights Analyst Suspended Over Nazi-Era Collection]
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