Yesterday Andrew Sullivan defended Human Rights Watch from a growing chorus of critics including HRW’s founder, who took to the op-ed page of the New York Times this week to castigate the organization for its obsession with Israel at the expense of real human rights abusers in the Middle East like Saudi Arabia. Sullivan also attacked UN Watch, an NGO that does exactly what its name implies and which organized a speech by Colonel Richard Kemp, the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, at the UN Human Rights Council last week. Kemp rebuked the UN and Richard Goldstone for their biased and inaccurate report alleging Israeli war crimes in Gaza. But Sullivan wasn’t impressed. “For a little background on this neutral observer,” Sullivan snipped, “here’s the Wikipedia entry on UN Watch, the hard neocon group Kemp is representing.” UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer responds: