Resorting to an old tactic, Israel accused Amnesty International of being anti-Semitic, for stating that both parties violate humanitarian laws, and that Israel is an apartheid state.
Israel has accused Amnesty International of “bias” and “anti-Semitism,” after the organization said all parties in the current Gaza conflict have violated humanitarian law, including by committing war crimes, Politico reported on Thursday.
Earlier the same day, Amnesty International had called for an immediate ceasefire and an independent investigation into “longstanding impunity for war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
Israel just called Amnesty an antisemitic org.
The tactic of dismissing any criticism of Israel as antisemitism is contemptible. Israel is so reckless at doing this that the term is losing its real meaning, it’s become a cheap rebuttal. This can only hurt Jewish ppl globally pic.twitter.com/Na0gX5tlGO— Juan Cruz Ferre (@WorkerTF) October 27, 2023
A statement from the organization also described one of the “root causes” of the conflict as “Israel’s system of apartheid imposed on all Palestinians.”
The group’s secretary-general, Agnes Callamard, said that “serious violations of international humanitarian law, including war crimes,” had been committed by all parties to the conflict.
In response, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman told Politico that “Amnesty International is an anti-Semitic organization that is biased against Israel.”
He claimed that the internationally renowned rights organization “lacks moral authority to portray itself as a human rights organization.”
According to the spokesman, Amnesty International is “a propaganda organization working for Hamas terrorists.”
People who have been called "antisemitic" for criticising Israel and defending Palestinian rights:
Jeremy Corbyn
Desmond Tutu
Bernie Sanders
Ken Loach
Roger Waters
Noam Chomsky
Norman Finkelstein
Emma Watson
Amnesty International
Greta Thunberg
António Guterres https://t.co/e5WIP9a0q7 pic.twitter.com/wn3jEsDP2g— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇾🇪 (@OwenPaintbrush) October 24, 2023
Meanwhile, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council on Tuesday that the Hamas attack “did not happen in a vacuum,” and that the Palestinian people “have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation” while their hopes for a political solution to their plight “have been vanishing.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen responded by accusing Guterres of showing “compassion” for terrorists and murderers and called on him to resign.
Israel has, thus far, killed 7,326, including nearly 3,000 children, and 1,700 women; and wounded over 19,000 more.
Israel has blasted "antisemitic" Amnesty after the rights group published its finding of "war crimes, by all parties" in the Israel-Hamas conflict.https://t.co/XzVmEaZMjw
— POLITICOEurope (@POLITICOEurope) October 26, 2023
Palestinian Ministry of Health reports and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
Israel says that 1,400 of its citizens were killed in Hamas-led attacks on October 7. Many of those killed are soldiers and officers in the Israeli occupation army.
Gaza has been under a tight Israeli military siege since 2007, following a democratic election in occupied Palestine, the results of which were rejected by Tel Aviv and Washington.
(RT, PC)
