{"id":946906,"date":"2023-01-06T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2023\/jan\/06\/harvard-kennedy-school-blocks-role-former-head-human-rights-watch-israel"},"modified":"2023-01-06T11:00:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T11:00:48","slug":"harvard-blocks-role-for-former-human-rights-watch-head-over-israel-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/06\/harvard-blocks-role-for-former-human-rights-watch-head-over-israel-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard blocks role for former Human Rights Watch head over Israel criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kennedy School allegedly bowed to donors unhappy with organisation accusing Israel of apartheid in occupied territories<\/p>\n<p>The dean of one the US\u2019s leading schools of government blocked a position for the former head of Human Rights Watch (HRW) over his organisation\u2019s criticism of Israel\u2019s oppression of the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>The Harvard Kennedy School\u2019s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy offered Kenneth Roth a position as a senior fellow shortly after he retired as director of HRW in April after 29 years. Roth is highly regarded within the human rights community for the part his organisation played in advances such as the creation of the international criminal court and the prosecution of major human rights abusers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2023\/jan\/06\/harvard-kennedy-school-blocks-role-former-head-human-rights-watch-israel\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kennedy School allegedly bowed to donors unhappy with organisation accusing Israel of apartheid in occupied territoriesThe dean of one the US\u2019s leading schools of government blocked a position for the former head of Human Rights Watch (HRW) over his or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25921,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52286,47590,429,6,82,2019,1315],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946981,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946906\/revisions\/946981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}