Once upon a time, Amnesty was a real human-rights organization. Not any more. For many years, perhaps decades, it has been a front for bigotry directed at Israel, Israelis, and Jews. For those outside the battlefield, Amnesty still retains its reputation. That’s one reason why its particular bigotry is so venomous and effective. Those of us who know the true situation tend to largely ignore all of Amnesty’s activity. Once you know it’s been repurposed as an antizionist, antisemitic outlet, you start to realize that you cannot trust anything it says. And I mean anything.
I was reminded of the perfidy of Amnesty by this recent post on X (formerly Twitter).
On the face of it, you couldn’t ask for more. However, it’s a sham.
Cast your mind back to 2015. At the Amnesty International UK’s Annual General Meeting that year, there were 17 resolutions up for adoption.
The 16 that were passed covered a range of international human rights issues and internal organizational matters.
The single resolution that was rejected was the one to “Campaign against anti-Semitism in the UK” and lobby the UK Government on this issue.
As reported by NGO Monitor here:
According to the motion, neither AIUK nor the [Amnesty] International Secretariat have undertaken research or campaigning work specifically on anti-Semitism in the UK.”
And
Nevertheless, an Amnesty-UK official offered a misleading technical justification, claiming that “our membership decided not to pass this resolution calling for a campaign with a single focus.” In fact, AIUK has initiated “single focus” campaigns frequently in the past, for instance, approving “overwhelmingly” a 2010 resolution on Sinti and Roma Communities, and stating: “Within the last year widespread discrimination and violence against Sinti and Roma communities has intensified in a number of European countries, which Amnesty International has published within respective country reports.” AIUK’s silence on antisemitism stands in sharp contrast.
There was an attempt on X to explain their stance:
We condemn all forms of hate crime and discrimination. Unfortunately we can’t campaign on everything.
They do campaign about lots of issues, but not about antisemitism.
Even Wikipedia, no friend to the Jews, has material about Amnesty’s bigotry.
Agnes Callamard has been the Secretary General of Amnesty International since 2021. Wikipedia – perhaps unsurprisingly – doesn’t find space for mention of her blind spot towards the Jews. For example, when British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah was released, this was her post on X and a sample of the unanswered criticism it triggered.
In other words, she celebrated the release of a man who called for Jews to be killed. For the complete extent of Alaa’s bigotry, he also called for the death of homosexuals and “whites”.
There are plenty more examples of Callamard’s bigotry and bias. Grokipedia has some material here. But these are truly the tip of the iceberg. Given her position, there’s little likelihood of Amnesty’s stance changing.
In short, for Amnesty, Jews don’t count. That new post about the incident in Golders Green is a sham. Don’t trust Amnesty.
