(JNS) NGO Monitor has published a scathing analysis of an April 2021 report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that accused Israel of committing “apartheid.” NGO Monitor analyzed the 217-page report along with its 867 footnotes.

HRW conducted almost no primary research, NGO Monitor found. Instead, HRW cited itself approximately 175 times, or in 20% of the document’s footnotes. HRW also cited B’Tselem approximately 70 times, and 20-40 times for Peace Now, Adalah, Gisha, HaMoked and Ir Amim, which are “all politicized NGOs active in the anti-Israel ‘apartheid’ campaign,” according to NGO Monitor.

In total, NGO Monitor found 303 total flaws with HRW’s report, divided into 105 errors, 136 misrepresentations, 37 omissions and 25 instances of a double standard.

Key errors in the report include false claims that Arabs in Israel are “hemmed in” with “density problems.” Salo Aizenberg, an independent scholar and author of the NGO Monitor report, told JNS that this is an “egregious” falsehood, given that “the largest 16 Arab cities have a density of about 2,550 persons per square mile, while the greater Tel Aviv metro area has a density of about 9,000, and key cities like Haifa and Jerusalem are two to three times more dense than these Arab towns.” According to Aizenberg, false claims surrounding such population density are repeated in 18 separate pages of HRW’s report.

Other errors that NGO Monitor found with the HRW report include assertions that:

• Israel granted entry permits to “...

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