Israel received support from one of the most unlikely sources Tuesday with a harsh condemnation of the Human Rights Watch group by its own founder, Robert Bernstein. Writing for The New York Times, he charged the group with “issuing reports on the Israeli-Arab conflict that are helping those who wish to turn Israel into a pariah state.”

HRW was in the forefront in accusing Israel of war crimes in the three-week Operation Cast Lead counterterrorist campaign in Gaza.