An open Letter to UN Watch

To Whom it may Concern:

I have been following your organizations vital activities for over two years now. As a graduate of Brooklyn College, editor of an internationally based online magazine, and a staunch advocate of a fair and balanced international legal doctrine (not as currently delineated in the Rome Statute which was the real premise for the Goldstone report, a connection UN Watch has failed to recognize and address) that is needed if only because globalization is inevitable.

As a human and as a Jew I appreciate all that UNWatch is doing. However, there is one area where it seems that you are clearly and unnecessarily failing. Namely, you have not watered the "roots of the grass".

When I talk with my Turkish, Palestinian, Russian, Australian, or American colleges your organizations work NEVER comes up. Not because they disagree with the hierarchy of human rights initiatives that you accurately espouse. But because you have not even attempted to introduce, recruit, or advertise the validity of your cause amongst the young, in the cities of America.

Erecruiting databases for UNPAID interns are rife with advertisements for HRW, AI, and other misguided organizations. These recruits imbibe the ideologies that such organizations advocate, and they in turn influence the extraordinary and unprecedented diversity that exists on American campuses.

UNWatch would be well advised to reach out to the young and diverse population centers, such as those found at schools like Brooklyn College, because THAT is where the war for the hearts and minds of the future is being fought not in the UN OR UNHRC. Recruiting student leaders from the Sudanese, Burmese, or Chinese student populations would be a simple matter, if there was an effort to that end.

I along with the few others in Brooklyn who are aware of your existence wish you the best in your rightly guided endeavor.

With best wishes for success,

Menachem M. Hecht