Human Rights Watch’s executive director Kenneth Roth is anything but impartial when it comes to Syria, Russia, Iran and Iraq. His obsession with Bashar Al-Assad and barrel bombs has been a running joke on twitter for years now. When it comes to ISIS, he has mixed feelings. He may criticize them for enslaving Yazidi girls and beheading Westerners but whenever they commit any atrocities in Syria, he has to always qualify his condemnation of them with something like “they are no worse than Assad”. Here is one of dozens of examples of this sort of thing:

Same thing in Iraq. He is always reminding us of the role that “Shia mistreatment of Sunnis played in the growth of ISIS”. Again there are dozens of examples of that…