“I could not continue to give so much of myself to Human Rights Watch, as I have for over a decade, when I no longer believed in the commitment of the organisation’s leadership to publishing the facts as we document them and consistently applying the law,” Shakir told MEE over WhatsApp. MEE reached out to HRW for comment on Shakir’s statements but did not receive a reply by the time of publication.

So glad that all it took to find his conscience was:

Shakir told colleagues that he had come under “intense external and internal scrutiny” and suffered from “personalised attacks” as HRW’s Israel-Palestine director, particularly after Israel’s war on Gaza erupted after the Hamas-led 7 October attacks on southern Israel on 7 October 2023 and the subsequent war on the enclave.