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The Antisemitism of Amnesty

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I previously referred to the Perfidy of Amnesty. Their continuing bigotry has been brought to my attention by the indomitable Elder of Ziyon in a post entitled Amnesty proves it is antisemitic, again.

I encourage you to follow the last link and read the post on the Elder’s site. For those who want a summary, here goes:

Amnesty tweeted about a Holocaust survivor:

Right now, Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos is at the Nakba Day demonstration in London. The 88-year-old has attended almost every demonstration in the last two year’s protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Stephen stands and sits with family and members of his group the ‘Holocaust Survivors & Descendants Against the Genocide in Gaza’.

The Elder pointed out:

Amnesty-UK is publicizing a child Holocaust survivor who marches in anti-Israel demonstrations, calling the Gaza War a “genocide.” The only reason they want to promote him is to make the point that as a Holocaust survivor, Kapos knows what genocide is and has a particular moral authority to be able to describe Israel’s actions as the most heinous war crimes.

But if Holocaust survivors have a unique perspective on genocide – and they do, having survived the paradigm of all genocides – then what about the 99.9% of living Holocaust survivors who support Israel, and who recognize Hamas and October 7 as being the closest modern equivalent to Nazis? If Holocaust survivors have an important perspective on the matter, why is Amnesty ignoring the feelings of nearly all of them and promoting a fringe figure among them?

From this, the Elder (rightly) concludes that Amnesty doesn’t think most Holocaust survivors’ opinions are important. I agree. How arrogant is their attitude? How bigoted is it?

The Elder makes two particular points following this.

First, Amnesty means that the other Holocaust survivors who support Israel are — by Amnesty’s logic — supporting genocide.

Second, by promoting Kapos above the majority of other Holocaust survivors, they are clearly using him as a prop. If they cared for Holocaust survivors, they would instead quote the others who would tell Amnesty about Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and the Houthis who want to finish Hitler’s job.

And, as I don’t want to lessen the impact of the Elder’s closing words (with which I wholeheratedly agree) I set them out in full here:

To Amnesty, the Holocaust is not a lesson for them to learn from. It is only a lesson for its victims and their descendants. It wasn’t a genocide, exactly, but a giant classroom for Jews to learn to behave themselves and not act like Nazis. The rest of the world, the world that let the Holocaust happen, are now the judges that determine whether Jews fighting for their lives are crossing the line or need to be taught Remedial Holocaust 102. To Amnesty, the Holocaust is a prop meant to be trotted out when it is convenient for them to hurl the most hateful accusations against Jews and then use fringe, mentally ill Jews as a cover to protect themselves from being accused of antisemitism.

No one else can be compared to the Nazis but Jews, in Amnesty’s universe.

This tweet, alone, exposes the cynicism and hypocrisy of this supposedly “human rights” organization. And, yes, the implications of this tweet are pure Jew-hatred.

This is not imaginary. This is real. This is a once worthy human-rights organization that is clearly engaged in naked antisemitism — repeatedly. Their brand is poison and should be shunned forever.

The Perfidy of Amnesty

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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).

Amnesty post on X, starting with "Our thoughts are with the Jewish community following the horrifying arson attack in Golders Green..."

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.

WikiPedia content about Amnesty and antisemitism. (27 March 2026)

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.

Post by Agnes Callamard on X. It says "Alaa is in the UK, reunited with his son and family. I am so so happy for them all." User @HarryJonesOz posted "Once many years ago Amnesty would not engage with a person who advocated or engaged in violence. Now here you are pouring out your love for a person who advocates openly on record for killing Jews. Did you ever stop to think?"

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.