the global community chose instead to use its limited time and resources to try to delegitimize Israel. Just a few months after the Cambodian atrocities began
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many leftists dismissed the atrocities as western propaganda. Activists Gareth Porter and George Hilderbrnd wrote
especially at the United Nations. While Pol Pot was murdering millions
meeting with him regularly in New York. In 1967
[check year] he asked me to help him in an informal capacity as an advisor on human rights and matters of international law.
it will have to make a choice: either to perpetuate its double standard on human rights
coupled with its willingness to send observers to Israel
the national vice-president of the guild. After learning that the guild had decided to send an observer to a trial of an alleged terrorist in Israel
to choose sides. The guild changed dramatically in the late 1960s and early 1970s
according to one member of the delegation
the guild subsequently decided to send what it called an objective delegation to the Middle East. The organizer of this “objective” group was Abdeen Jabara
especially among lawyers who had represented left-wing causes and individuals. Battle lines were quickly drawn. Some
the radical Left was beginning its campaign against Israel. In a highly publicized speech delivered on October 19
a lapsed Catholic priest who had become the darling of the hard left as the result of his anti-Vietnam War activities
the PLO was a terrorist gang that was hijacking airplanes
the consensus regarding human rights was beginning to change. Although the Soviet Union had long used the language of “human rights” (as well as the language of “civil rights”) as a club against western democracies
trash-talked me or in any way misbehaved
but I’ve never experienced so grim a place as this “life or death row
I learned about a legal provision that seemed unique to China. When the sentence of death was imposed for certain types of crimes
including the use of unacceptable interrogation methods