Human Rights Watch is facing fresh scrutiny over its “honest” Middle East coverage as investigators uncover staff connections to terrorist organizations.

A damning report from Israeli watchdog NGO Monitor reveals millions being poured into HRW’s coffers by left-leaning foundations such as Soros’s Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Arab researcher Milena Ansari joined HRW’s team after spending nearly three years at Addameer, a Ramallah-based nonprofit blacklisted by Israel’s Defense Ministry in 2021 for functioning as a front for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. While at Addameer, Ansari repeatedly made it her mission to defend Jewish murderers, including PFLP terrorist Salah Hamouri, convicted in a 2005 plot targeting Israel’s chief rabbi.

“With Allah’s grace, he feels well, and as we know the prisoners, despite all the injustice they suffer, they still have a fierce spirit of resistance within them,” said Ansari in a statement denouncing Israel’s deportation of Hamouri in 2022.

“By deporting Salah, Israel thinks that it will silence him and that he will see the beauty of France and forget about the suffering of Palestine, but I am convinced that this will not come to be,” she declared in another interview. “It’s the right of the Palestinian people to resist this ongoing Israeli occupation with whatever means provided for them,” Ansari stated during a 2022 podcast interview.

NGO Monitor’s investigation also exposed HRW’s reliance on Mahdi Sadeq, executive director of the Nabatieh Emergency Rescue Service Association, as a key source in a recent report accusing Israel of war crimes in Lebanon. Following Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s death in September, Sadeq posted a tribute featuring the terrorist’s photo alongside a broken heart emoji with the message: “I had no idea that my love for you penetrates me this deep. My blessings be upon you, our master.”

Despite having prior knowledge of his affiliations, HRW prominently featured Sadeq in their allegations of “genocide” against Israel last month, quoting him saying: “For the last three days, we haven’t been able to find anything to eat here. Stores and restaurants are gone, banks are gone, food stores are all gone, all pharmacies are gone.”

NGO Monitor President Gerald Steinberg blasted HRW’s terror supporting practices in comments to the Washington Free Beacon.

“HRW ‘reports’ continue the 25-year practice of citing propagandists and terror affiliates as expert sources,” he said. “HRW’s false accusations against Israel have exploited the facade of research to push an agenda of demonization.””