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Isranet Daily Briefing
Tuesday, February 8th 2022
Report: NGOs Behind Amnesty Int’l ‘Israeli Apartheid’ Report Received over $100 Million from Foreign Governments: Jewish Press, Feb. 6, 2022 — Seventy-seven percent of the NGOs cited in Amnesty International’s damning report against Israel (Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians) were Israeli organizations that received a total of $105,209,347 (NIS 337,553,677) from foreign governments since 2012, Im […]
Analysis
Tuesday, February 8th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Ken Cohen JNS, Feb. 2, 2022 “… one of the most pernicious lies about Israel’s creation is that it was born due to the Holocaust, a result of the United Nations Partition Plan of 1947. The truth is, Israel was created by the Jews themselves as a result of more than a half-century of organizing.” […]
Gershon Baskin Jerusalem Post, Feb. 2, 2022 “For the first time in decades, a true representative democratic election was held within a Palestinian political party. The outcome of the election was a great surprise to almost everyone, especially to those who are completely out of touch with the Palestinian public.” An interesting development occurred recently […]
Abraham Benlolo and Jerry S. Grafstein National Post, Feb. 4, 2022 “Where was Amnesty International?” On June 1, 2001, a Palestinian terrorist blew himself up outside a Tel Aviv night club, killing 21 Israelis, 16 of whom were teenagers. Two months later, another Palestinian suicide terrorist entered the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem and killed 15 […]
Kenneth Jacobson The Times of Israel, Feb. 5, 2022 “To claim that Israel conducts an apartheid system toward its Arab citizens when there is no evidence to sustain that bespeaks a bias against the very idea of a Jewish state.” In a world where criticism of the State of Israel and its policies is hardly […]
Monday, February 7th 2022
Withdraw Amnesty’s Charitable Status — Charity Commission Guidance Note CC9 says ‘a charity can campaign using emotive or controversial material, where this is lawful and justifiable in the context of the campaign. Such material must be factually accurate and have a legitimate evidence base.’Amnesty International’s appalling vilification of Israel – published today – is entitled […]
Monday, February 7th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Hillel C. Neuer Newsweek, July 17, 2020 China’s appointment in April to a U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) panel that selects world human rights monitors sparked global outrage. Even worse, it now turns out that among the 17 different appointments to be made this year by this five-nation consultative group, the vetting of the expert on freedom of […]
Dan Diker JNS, Feb. 1, 2022 A new Amnesty International report, called “Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and crime against humanity,” is the latest in a series of political assaults on Israel by various “human rights” organizations, among them B’Tselem and Human Rights Watch. The 211-page indictment is a voyage into an alternate reality. […]
Daniel Hurst The Guardian, Feb. 2, 2022 Amnesty International has called on the Australian government to unequivocally condemn “crimes against humanity” after the prime minister dismissed the group’s assessment that Israel is perpetrating apartheid against Palestinians. Scott Morrison told reporters “no country is perfect”, in response to Amnesty’s 280-page report on Israel. A spokesperson for the foreign affairs […]
Richard Kemp Gatestone Institute, Feb. 2, 2022 The latest grotesque exhibition of anti-Israel vitriol among NGOs is this week’s publication of a report by Amnesty International that recycles tired, repeatedly disproven yet deliberately provocative antisemitic tropes and accusations of racism. This from an organization that was itself last year branded as “systemically racist”. The title of the […]
Friday, February 4th 2022
WATCH: The REAL History of Israel: Isranet, YouTube, May 26, 2021: Produced by Montreal’s Sochaczevsky family. Sholem Aleichem: Spokesman for a People: Isaac Bashevis Singer, NY Times, Sept. 20, 1964 The Jewish Mark Twain: William Deresiewicz, Atlantic, January/February 2014 New Documentary Follows Leading Yiddish Writer’s Life in New York City: Joseph Berger, NY Times, July 24, 2011 […]
Friday, February 4th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Joshua Cohen Harper’s, Oct. 17, 2013 Jeremy Dauber on the remarkable life and afterlife of the man who created Tevye the Dairyman by Joshua Cohen on October 17, 2013 Jeremy Dauber is the Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture and Director of the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University. He is also a friend. […]
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