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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Yeah, that’s okay according to them, actually they’d sue to keep it going.
your note reminds of the office gag ...
a very nice fellow arrived at his desk to see his Save the Whales poster covered over with a new Nuke the Whales poster.
(I happen to really think whales are amazing creatures, the above was just a joke for the guy’s birthday is all..)
For “has now just become”, read “always has been”.
The ACLU’s founders were all communists; one of them, Roger Nash Baldwin, openly declared “Communism is of course the goal.”
Peter Benenson, founder of AI, was a Labour Party politician who wanted to impose the communistic UN’s Charter of Fundamental Rights on the whole globe.
“secular state”. They tried that, but secular Jews don’t reproduce. Orthodox Jews have a very high population growth rate. Have both in the same nation and after a generation or three, only Orthodox Jews will be left.
Secularism is sterile. A good lesson to other nations.
It exposes their goal masquerading as “research.”
Not.
Israel is an economic miracle because of its economic policies, not because of its religion. What’s missing from this, and most other Leftist wailings, is that if its Jewish heritage is eliminated, its economic policies will also be eliminated. If it is forced to no longer remain as a “Jewish State” It will become just another Muslim hell hole.
On the one hand, calling itself a Jewish state is racist, but on the other hand, criticizing Jews and Israel isn't racist because Judaism isn't a race.
Let O’Brien ask the Moslem states to have only a “secular state” and see how fast they cut off this head!
Not to my knowledge. Been rotten for decades.
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