{"id":402262,"date":"2022-02-01T05:55:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T02:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/amnesty-internationals-latest-israel-smear\/"},"modified":"2022-02-01T05:55:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T02:55:37","slug":"amnesty-internationals-latest-israel-smear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/amnesty-internationals-latest-israel-smear\/","title":{"rendered":"#Amnesty International&#8217;s latest Israel smear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Amnesty International&#8217;s latest Israel smear<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Amnesty International UK waited until after Holocaust Remembrance Day to publish its latest report on Israel \u2014 which depends on ignoring that history and Palestinian efforts to repeat it.<\/p>\n<p>Expect the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> to be all over it, since Amnesty is, for the first time, officially accusing Israel of \u201capartheid\u201d (joining Human Rights Watch, which made the same obscene jump last year).<\/p>\n<p>Anti-Zionist activists and politicians love using the word to smear Israel\u2019s citizenship laws and national-security policies \u2014 to delegitimize the Jewish state by equating it with South Africa\u2019s old racist regime.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty has only accused one other country of current apartheid policies, by the way: Myanmar, which is regularly genocidal against the Rohingya minority. Not China, Iran or Syria, which also seek to wipe out minority populations.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/amnesty-israel-498.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Militants stand guard around the stage as Yahya Sinwar,\" class=\"wp-image-21042875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/amnesty-israel-498.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/amnesty-israel-498.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/amnesty-israel-498.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Anti-Zionist activists and politicians often use the word \u201capartheid\u201d  to demean Israel\u2019s citizenship laws and national-security policies.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The report reviews Israel\u2019s history since independence, pointing to a skein of examples that supposedly prove the \u201capartheid state\u201d canard.<\/p>\n<p>But what a lot of history Amnesty ignores. The Holocaust <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears\u00a0<em>only<\/em>\u00a0in discussing Israel\u2019s 1952 proffer of citizenship to any Jew who wanted it. It mentions \u201cexpulsion\u201d \u2014 without noting, for example, Jews getting the boot from Gamal Abdel\u00a0Nasser\u2019s Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Yasser Arafat does not appear. It mentions Hamas 25 times but no specifics of its political and military programs that openly aim at Israel\u2019s annihilation. References to Egypt\u2019s \u201ctight\u201d restrictions on the Rafah border crossing don\u2019t explain the \u201cwhy\u201d \u2014 namely, that nation\u2019s desire to prevent terror attacks on both sides of that border. It describes the unprovoked May 2021 indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israeli citizens as just \u201carmed hostilities [breaking] out.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/amnesty-israel-497.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Rockets launched towards Israel from the northern Gaza Strip\" class=\"wp-image-21042874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/amnesty-israel-497.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/amnesty-israel-497.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/amnesty-israel-497.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The Holocaust appears only in discussing Israel\u2019s 1952 proffer of citizenship to any Jewish person who wanted it. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Simply missing is any real sense that the Palestinian political leadership has long pursued policies founded in the denial of Israel\u2019s right to exist. Then again, it never treats Palestinians as having any control over their own actions.<\/p>\n<p>The long \u201cRecommendations\u201d section calls for sanctions, arms embargoes and other international actions against Israel as a whole. But it asks of the Palestinians only that their political leaders \u201cdocument . . . the discriminatory impact of Israel\u2019s system of apartheid against the Palestinian population\u201d and stop security co-ordination with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing about Hamas abandoning\u00a0its genocidal rhetoric, let alone its efforts to deliver on it. Or about committing to no further rocket attacks on civilian targets.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sad to see a second big-name global human-rights group pushing this garbage, but Amnesty isn\u2019t offering anything new: just more distortions, double standards and table-pounding.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Expect the media to be all over it, since Amnesty is, for the first time, officially accusing Israel of \u201capartheid\u201d (joining&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":402263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/newspress-collage-21038731-1643683059233.png?w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[125211,94192,43,103820,2184,70241,79017],"class_list":["post-402262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-31-22","tag-amnesty-international","tag-editorial","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-palestinians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}