Posted on 03/12/2022 11:02:53 AM PST by MarvinStinson
The director of Amnesty International USA on Wednesday said Israel "shouldn't exist as a Jewish state" in the wake of his organization's release of a controversial report on Israel that drew backlash from U.S. officials.
American Jews want a "safe Jewish space," Executive Director Paul O'Brien said, rather than an explicitly Jewish state. O'Brien, who is not Jewish, called on the Jewish community to "collectively change the conversation" and bring about a secular state by adhering to "core Jewish values, which are to be principled and fair and just."
"Amnesty takes no political views on any question, including the right of the State of Israel to survive," O'Brien said.
O'Brien made the remarks at an event hosted by the Woman's National Democratic Club. The director of the human-rights group defended a report released last month by his parent organization that accused Israel of carrying out an apartheid against Palestinians and called for Israeli officials to face prosecution in international courts.
That report was rebuked by State Department officials and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) called it a "gross mischaracterization" that perpetuated "longstanding tropes" regarding the Jewish state.
O'Brien attributed Democrats' hostility toward the report to meetings representatives held with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, according to Jewish Insider.
The director was unequivocal in opposing the existence of Israel as a state for the Jewish people.
"The right of the people to self-determination and to be protected is without a doubt something that we believe in, and I personally believe that," O'Brien said. "We are opposed to the idea—and this, I think, is an existential part of the debate—that Israel should be preserved as a state for the Jewish people."
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But it’s just fine to have Muslim states. Got it.
If Israel would not exist as a Jewish state, then why would Israel exist?! I gave up on Amnesty International decades ago.
AI has always been a bunch of commie AHOs.
Sure! And lots and lots of 'em!
Is Soros a major contributo to Amnesty International?
Amnesty International is against the death penalty even for the most heinous murderers.
From Amnesty International USA website:
“When you donate to Amnesty International, you become a force for human rights. Donate and join the global movement fighting injustice.”
They seem to have lost their way. Is it they become “woke”?
I’m trying to remember if Amnesty International ever got something right?
...and the Vatican?
Hosted by the ‘Women’s National Democratic Club. Surely a conservative, right wing, anti-Semite bunch, ay? /sc
“The State of Israel was born as a Jewish state. That’s the people’s decision and the question is not about the identity of the state. It was born that way and that’s how it will remain.” Israeli Arab leader Monsour Abbas .
I think the governing coalition in Israel will continue to include Mr. Abbas, and would be wise to bar Amnesty International from entering the country.
Nothing wrong with an ethnically Jewish state in the land of their forefathers. Just as there is nothing wrong with an ethnically French state in France, an ethnically Irish state in Ireland, an ethnically Korean state in Korea, an ethnically Ethiopian state in Ethiopia.
God might have a different opinion.
But for abortion.
nothing new for Amnesty International. Its been spreading gross lies against Jerusalem for years and years. It is simply another one of the communist front groups that make use of nice=sounding names or “causes” to advance their Stalinist propaganda and world agenda
With the defenestration of Jeremy Corbin from the Labor Party this is where the UK antisemites are hanging out.
AI - like many orgs including ACLU - has now just become another mouthpiece for nutcase leftists.
String’Em Up International should have been founded years ago … if only just to offend the Left.
They could celebrate the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti and other leftwinger criminals..
The Bible says it should. So take it up with the God of Israel, AI. You won’t like what tends to happen to people who trouble the Jews. Read history.
This is what US taxpayers are paying for.
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