Kenneth Roth

This isn't the first time the US government stood on the wrong side of an essential human rights challenge. In my new book, "Righting Wrongs," I explain how the human rights movement repeatedly circumvented and overcame US obstruction. We can do it again. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739898/r…

China's long-time one-child policy, combined with resulting selective abortions, has yielded a huge 22.5 million more men of marriageable age than women. Their involuntary celibacy is fueling an outpouring of misogyny. trib.al/HT9OYIi

Japan has allowed itself to be turned into a center for Russian agents to circumvent sanctions and secure the technology needed to prosecute Putin's unlawful invasion of Ukraine. trib.al/bl8Dy6F

Will Republican senators stoop so low as to confirm Trump's personal attorney as the nation's top law-enforcement official? It looks that way. They may settle for meaningless CYA verbal "assurances."  trib.al/q566428

Younger voters are more likely to turn against Israel because they only have ever known it as a repressor. Time is not on the side of AIPAC and Israel's other unconditional supporters. trib.al/17kftMH

Australian universities will be required to adopt a definition of antisemitism, but fortunately not the discredited IHRA one, which is widely used to suppress legitimate criticism of Israel. trib.al/KVglXfq

US Congressman Ro Khanna accused the Israeli government and military of “lying” when they claimed to have quickly dispersed armed settlers who were detaining and threatening him on a recent visit to the Israeli-occupied West Bank. trib.al/VQMvpIN

Beyond the killings in the street, 52 people have died in ICE detention over the past year and a half under Trump. trib.al/fwmAaFo

How many bombs must be dropped, how many missiles launched, for Putin and Trump to save face after starting their disastrous wars? trib.al/mnbCAly

Both Putin and Trump started disastrous wars that they don't know how to end. Trump is more desperate because he presides over a democracy that he hasn't yet destroyed. Putin can impose enormous costs on Russia because he is a dictator. trib.al/ialYtqc

Israel has been hemorrhaging support in the United States because of its genocide in Gaza, apartheid in the West Bank, endless occupation, and pointless war with Iran, but Lindsey Graham could see no evil. trib.al/KlLcdSy

Putin's war is coming home. Drivers across Russia are waiting for hours to fill up at gas stations — and, in some regions, for days. As fuel shortages worsen, people are driving across entire cities in search of gas stations that are still open. trib.al/H2lKF4D

Remember Iran's nuclear program? It is uncontained because Trump ripped up Obama's deal and chose war over negotiation. Now, because of Trump's war of choice, the Strait of Hormuz is the new controversy and the nuclear program is sidelined. trib.al/Ju1XrbK

Lindsey Graham "was a true defender of freedom" unless the persecutor was Israel. trib.al/wZVyB78

First Israel silenced Palestinian citizens. Now it turns to their leaders: digging up old statements and seeking severe punishment in Israeli courts. trib.al/q7JLmZM

The cost of double dealing: “Strong doubts persist [in Iran] about the United States upholding any bargain. Given the history..., there is widespread suspicion that Trump, although he wants a deal to help reduce oil prices, will eventually renege on it." trib.al/lgV2xaF

Israel's plummeting popularity among American voters (because of the genocide in Gaza, the endless occupation, the needless war with Iran) has made support for Israel a huge hazard for Democratic politicians. trib.al/BRQOfEO

Trump has himself to blame for the Strait of Hormuz controversy: 1. It wasn't an issue before Trump's war of choice with Iran. 2. Trump signed off on an MOU that implicitly ceded control to Iran by saying there would be "no charge for 60 days only." trib.al/gEjFvKn

Netanyahu told Trump that killing the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would lead to a popular uprising in Iran. Instead, it "strengthened the hand of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in running the country," reinforcing a hardline position. trib.al/BHcUVFY

Lindsey Graham supported the International Criminal Court when it charged Putin but turned on it when it charged Netanyahu. Principled, he wasn't. trib.al/p38NoWa

The British wife of toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has been revealed as a central figure in his murderous operation and at the heart of its decision-making. Putin is now harboring the two of them to prevent their prosecution. trib.al/cKHFqMm