Amnesty International Accuses Israel of Committing ‘Genocide’
“accusation distorts both the facts and the law for the sake of sensational headlines”
Amnesty International has adopted the worldview of leftists on college campuses. Anyone surprised?
From City Journal:
Amnesty International’s “Genocide” Smear Against Israel
Amnesty International, an organization with a long history of anti-Israeli activism, recently released a report accusing the Jewish state of committing genocide, with Human Rights Watch jumping on the bandwagon with its own report to be released Thursday. These baseless claims are yet another example of organizations redefining legal terms to suit their accusations against Israel.
Like its previous unfounded claims, Amnesty’s genocide accusation distorts both the facts and the law for the sake of sensational headlines. Consider the prevailing definition of “genocidal intent” in international law. In 2007, the International Court of Justice found in Bosnia v. Serbia that such intent can only be established when it is the only plausible inference to be drawn from a nation’s pattern of conduct; the court reaffirmed this standard in Croatia v. Serbia (2015). No reasonable observer could argue that Israel’s military actions—directed against Hamas, a terrorist organization explicitly dedicated to the Jewish state’s destruction—constitute genocide under this prevailing standard.
But Amnesty had pre-determined that Israel was guilty, so it simply dismissed international law.
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This is who Amnesty is. They lost the plot long ago, if they ever had it.
I suspect they are like most leftist NGOs; making loud statements about whatever Thing Of The Day™ is currently running , accomplishing none of their stated goals, except for successfully sending out the monthly begging emails and letters to their AWFL membership.
The cash and the moral superiority points keep rolling in.
This is part of a growing and increasingly troubling trend. For decades the West has ceded control of its educational and media apparatus to increasingly left wing forces.
The end result is a growing population of radicalized citizens who support the murder of a CEO (notwithstanding that his corporate behavior was questionable), rampant antisemitism, and support socialist/communist ideals and regimes. These are the useful idiots we have spawned who support Amnesty International and their ilk.
We must make a concerted effort to roll back the influence of the leftist education and media complexes.
There is no time like the present!
The incursion into Israel had nothing to do with it. Right? Always go back to the beginning when reviewing. And vet the history of the claimants
I would not be surprised if this NGO was funded by the U.S. State Department.
How about attacking their nonprofit status, running attack ads to undermine their fundraising, looking for fraud, self dealing, looking for disgruntled current and former employees.
They are not against genocide. They only object to the victim selection.