Call the resulting storm of protest "progress". Roth's admitting tacitly how often HRW caved to pressure. He's admitted it before, openly, in private.

And Kenneth Roth here implies that wealth correlates with principle:

“If any academic institution can afford to abide by principle, to refuse to compromise academic freedom under real or presumed donor pressure, it is Harvard, the world’s richest university.”

— asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل (@asadabukhalil) January 10, 2023