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 | founder      = [[Emmanuel Weiss]]
 | dissolved    = 9 August 2022 (dissolved via compulsory strike off)
 | location     = United Kingdom
 | key_people   = [[Jonathan Neumann]] (spokesperson)

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 | name         = Jewish Human Rights Watch
 | type         = Advocacy group
 | founder      = [[Emmanuel Weiss]]
 | dissolved    = 9 August 2022 (dissolved via compulsory strike off)
 | location     = United Kingdom

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 | founder      = [[Emmanuel Weiss]]
 | founded_date = February 2015
 | location     = United Kingdom
 | key_people   = [[Jonathan Neumann]] (spokesperson)

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 | name         = Jewish Human Rights Watch
 | type         = Advocacy group
 | founded_date = February 2015
 | location     = United Kingdom
-| key_people   = [[Emmanuel Weiss]] (founder), [[Jonathan Neumann]] (spokesperson)
+| key_people   = [[Jonathan Neumann]] (spokesperson)
 | focus        = Countering BDS and defending the Zionist regime's colonial policies
 | website      =

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-'''Jewish Human Rights Watch''' (JHRW) is a pro-Zionist advocacy group founded in February 2015 by [[Emmanuel Weiss]] to counter the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement calling for accountability over the Zionist entity's colonial practices in Palestine. The organisation positions itself as a defender of Jewish rights, but its primary activities involve suppressing criticism of the settler colony known as 'Israel', often by equating anti-Zionist activism—protected as a philosophical belief—with antisemitism. JHRW has engaged in legal challenges against local authorities supporting BDS, media campaigns promoting the Zionist regime, and collaborations with far-right Zionist networks to disrupt events highlighting the Jewish State's apartheid and occupation. This focus reflects broader Zionist strategies to maintain impunity for colonial violence while marginalising voices advocating for Palestinian justice.<ref name="JC2015">Josh Jackman, [https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/poverty-charity-s-boycott-is-like-nazi-germany-says-new-group-1.65196 Poverty charity’s boycott is like Nazi Germany, says new group] ''Jewish Chronicle'', February 19, 2015.</ref> JHRW's efforts exemplify the use of "human rights" rhetoric to shield the Zionist colony from scrutiny, contributing to a climate where protected anti-Zionist positions are targeted under the pretext of combating hate.
+'''Jewish Human Rights Watch''' (JHRW) is a pro-Zionist advocacy group founded in February 2015 in Manchester by [[Emmanuel Weiss]] to counter the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement calling for accountability over the Zionist entity's colonial practices in Palestine. The organisation positions itself as a defender of Jewish rights, but its primary activities involve suppressing criticism of the settler colony known as 'Israel', often by equating anti-Zionist activism—protected as a philosophical belief—with antisemitism. JHRW has engaged in legal challenges against local authorities supporting BDS, media campaigns promoting the Zionist regime, and collaborations with far-right Zionist networks to disrupt events highlighting the Jewish State's apartheid and occupation. This focus reflects broader Zionist strategies to maintain impunity for colonial violence while marginalising voices advocating for Palestinian justice.<ref name="JC2015">Josh Jackman, [https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/poverty-charity-s-boycott-is-like-nazi-germany-says-new-group-1.65196 Poverty charity’s boycott is like Nazi Germany, says new group] ''Jewish Chronicle'', February 19, 2015.</ref> JHRW's efforts exemplify the use of "human rights" rhetoric to shield the Zionist colony from scrutiny, contributing to a climate where protected anti-Zionist positions are targeted under the pretext of combating hate.
 JHRW claims to monitor and combat antisemitism, but its operations are geared toward defending the settler colony's policies, including settlement expansion and military actions in Gaza. The group's founding amid growing BDS momentum in the United Kingdom positioned it as a diaspora tool for the Zionist entity, aligning with global hasbara efforts to normalise apartheid. By framing BDS as discriminatory, JHRW seeks to criminalise solidarity with Palestine, ignoring the colonial context of 'Israel's' dispossession of Palestinians. The organisation's legal failures, such as the 2016 judicial review against local councils, highlight the limits of its strategy, yet JHRW continues to lobby and disrupt to perpetuate the Zionist regime's narrative of victimhood.

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 == Directors Table ==
 {| class="wikitable sortable"
-|+ Directors of [[Jewish Human Rights Watch]] (Company Number 09359516)
+|+ Directors of [[Jewish Human Rights Watch]] (Company Number 09359516) - Dissolved on 09 August 2022
-! Name !! Role !! Appointment Date !! Resignation Date !! Other Charities/Companies Involved
+! Name !! Role !! Appointment Date !! Resignation Date !! Date of Birth !! Nationality !! Country of Residence !! Correspondence Address !! Other Charities/Companies Involved
 |-
-| [[Emmanuel Weiss]] || Founder and Director || February 2015 || Active || None on record
+| [[Robert Henry Festenstein]] || Director || 27 May 2015 || N/A (active at dissolution) || April 1960 || British || United Kingdom || Suites 2-3 Quebec Offices, Bury Street, Manchester, Lancashire, M3 7DY || [[UK Lawyers for Israel]] (associated)
 |-
-| [[Jonathan Neumann]] || Spokesperson and Director || February 2015 || Active || [[Campaign Against Antisemitism]] (associated)
+| [[Joseph Rosenfield]] || Director || 11 June 2015 || N/A (active at dissolution) || September 1949 || British || United Kingdom || Rhf Solicitors, Suites 2-3 Quebec Offices, Manchester, United Kingdom, M3 7DY || None on record
 |-
-| [[Robert Festenstein]] || Director || February 2015 || Active || [[UK Lawyers for Israel]] (associated)
+| [[Osker Heiman]] || Previous Director || 17 December 2014 || 17 December 2014 || May 1977 || British || England || 47 Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester, United Kingdom, M25 9JY || None on record
 |-
-| [[Joseph Rosenfield]] || Director || February 2015 || Active || None on record
+| [[Jonathan Neumann]] || Director || 17 December 2014 || 1 August 2017 || November 1987 || British || United Kingdom || 12-13, Hatton Garden, London, United Kingdom, EC1N 8AN || [[Campaign Against Antisemitism]] (associated)
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-| [[Osker Heiman]] || Previous Director || February 2015 || Unknown || None on record
+| [[Manny Weiss]] || Director || 11 June 2015 || 29 December 2020 || September 1952 || American || England || Rhf Solicitors, Suites 2-3 Quebec Offices, Manchester, United Kingdom, M3 7DY || None on record
 |}
 == Timeline ==
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 *[[Emmanuel 'Manny' Weiss]] - founder and director
 *[[Jonathan Neumann]] - spokesperson and director
-*[[Robert Henry Festenstein]]
+*[[Robert Henry Festenstein]] - director
-*[[Joseph Rosenfield]]<ref>Ben White, [https://benwhite.org.uk/2016/03/02/israel-and-friends-battle-the-boycott-in-britain/ Israel and friends battle the boycott] BenWhite.org, 2 March 2016</ref>
+*[[Joseph Rosenfield]]- director<ref>Ben White, [https://benwhite.org.uk/2016/03/02/israel-and-friends-battle-the-boycott-in-britain/ Israel and friends battle the boycott] BenWhite.org, 2 March 2016</ref>
 ==Notes==

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 '''Jewish Human Rights Watch''' (JHRW) is a UK-based pro-Israel organisation founded by [[Emmanuel Weiss]] in February 2015.<ref>Josh Jackman, [https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/poverty-charity-s-boycott-is-like-nazi-germany-says-new-group-1.65196 Poverty charity’s boycott is like Nazi Germany, says new group], ''Jewish Chronicle'', 19 February 2015</ref>
-Its aim is to counter the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement for Palestinian rights.<ref>[https://www.jhrw.com/about About], Jewish Human Rights Watch, accessed 16 March 2017.</ref>
+Its aim is to counter the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights.<ref>[https://www.jhrw.com/about About], Jewish Human Rights Watch, accessed 16 March 2017.</ref>
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