This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Joe Stork (1942 or 1943 – October 23, 2024) was an American political activist who wrote on the Middle East.
He became Deputy Director for Middle East and North Africa at Human Rights Watch.
His involvement with MERIP and anti-Israel activism before joining HRW have made him the object of criticism.
According to Maariv's report, Stork wrote an article praising the Munich massacre and attended an anti-Zionist conference hosted by Saddam Hussein in 1976.
[4] Kenneth Roth, executive director of HRW, defended Stork by saying that these events took place thirty years earlier, and he later became a staunch critic of Hussein.