{"id":7424,"date":"2022-07-08T11:31:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T23:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/?p=7424"},"modified":"2022-08-10T22:31:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T10:31:41","slug":"amnesty-internationals-israel-report-deeply-flawed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/2022\/07\/amnesty-internationals-israel-report-deeply-flawed\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty International UK Promotes Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amnesty International UK has shown no shame in launching a <\/span>propaganda campaign against Israel.<\/span><\/a> This is the branch of the AI organisation that has come under scrutiny for being <\/span>\u2018colonialist and institutionally racist\u2019.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

AI UK is relying on the February 2022 Amnesty International (AI) Report, <\/span>\u201cIsrael\u2019s Apartheid Against the Palestinians\u201d<\/span> to bolster its lies.<\/span><\/p>\n

NGO Monitor has found:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026the Amnesty publication is fundamentally flawed, using lies, distortions, omissions, and egregious double standards to construct a fraudulent and libelous narrative of Israeli cruelty. A careful examination of the text shows that Amnesty conducted almost no primary research. Rather, it is bloated with cut-and-paste phrases and quotes and conclusions taken from third-party sources \u2013 notably other political NGOs that are part of the same libelous campaign against Israel. The footnotes are glaringly thin on primary documents, such as official Israeli government statistics, Palestinian documents, court documents, Knesset transcripts, interviews from leading officials, and much of the data is obsolete (often well over a decade old).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

In preparing this report, we examined and critically assessed every line of the Amnesty publication and closely read the sources and citations provided. We uncovered five categories of faults: Errors, Misrepresentations, Omissions, Double Standards, and Dead Citations. This systematic review conclusively shows, contrary to Amnesty\u2019s claims, that Amnesty\u2019s allegations have no substance or merit.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

As we examined and critically assessed every line of the Amnesty report and followed up on nearly every source and every endnote, we documented five categories of faults. There is some level of overlap and subjectivity in how each item was classified, but in the end they are all serious flaws that in aggregate shows the report to be mendacious and its authors as incompetent.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Overall, our analysis uncovered 287 total flaws comprised of 102 errors, 97 misrepresentations, 29 omissions, 24 double standards, and 35 dead citations.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The full NGO Monitor report<\/a> that provides evidence for these claims:<\/span><\/p>\n

Supporters of the \u2018apartheid\u2019 charge like to point out that there is a \u201cconsensus\u201d among human rights groups and NGOs that Israel is in fact an apartheid state. However, in reality it is a fabricated thesis held by a tight knit circle of like-minded activists who share information and work together to create a false impression of broad based agreement against Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Legal experts have deconstructed the definitions and claims of apartheid propagated by a group of NGOs. Barrister Joshua Kern of 9 Bedford Row, London and NGO Monitor Legal Advisor Anne Herzberg, have published two companion reports, top-level legal analyzes that <\/span>expose the premeditated attempts of powerful NGOs such as Human Rights Watch and B\u2019Tselem to delegitimize the Jewish State.<\/span><\/a> They have found that the use of the term \u2018apartheid\u2019 against Israel is not legally substantiated. Instead, these groups promote artificial and manufactured definitions designed to extend the ongoing campaigns that seek to delegitimize and demonize Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Their <\/span>main findings<\/span><\/a> were:<\/span><\/p>\n