But it’s very clear that that threshold has been crossed,” says Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch. “It’s time for the international community to recognize ...

Dozens of students and University guests packed into Dwight Hall chapel for a conversation with Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch Omar Shakir. The Monday evening discussion focused ...

The regional director of Human Rights Watch, Omar Shakir, was expelled from Israel Monday night, after the Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision banning Shakir from Israel over his support ...

Human Rights Watch said neither it nor Shakir has called for an outright boycott of Israel. It said ... but it will be a step to silencing the BDS activity of Omar Shakir himself,” he said. ...

Omar Shakir's visa was withdrawn early this month ... Both Shakir, a US citizen who serves as Human Rights Watch's Israel and Palestine director, and the New York-based organisation denied ...

A senior Human Rights Watch (HRW) official who was expelled from Israel over his alleged support for promoting boycotts of the country will continue carrying out his work from a neighbouring ...

Omar Shakir, a California native who is the Israel and Palestine director for Human Rights Watch, has been stripped of his work permit and ordered to leave the country within 14 days, according to ...

including further blocking lifesaving aid,” Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch, said in a press release. In its Jan. 26 ruling on a genocide case brought forth by ...

Human Rights Watch's Omar Shakir, the report's chief author, says he does not expect immediate international action on its findings but hopes for a "recognition of the crime." "The international ...

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The European Union on Tuesday called on Israel to reinstate the visa of Omar Shakir, the representative of Human Rights Watch in the country, which was withdrawn after Israel accused him of supporting ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Supreme Court upheld a government decision to deport a Human Rights Watch (HRW ... refusal to renew the work visa of Omar Shakir, a U.S. citizen representing ...