Amnesty International Exposes the Man Behind the Curtain
To the human-rights experts, failure to find evidence of Israel’s wrongdoing is itself evidence of wrongdoing.
February 25, 2022
Amnesty International Exposes the Man Behind the Curtain
To the human-rights experts, failure to find evidence of Israel’s wrongdoing is itself evidence of wrongdoing.
Few who have followed the activity of Amnesty International and other similar organizations in recent years had reason for surprise when it issued a lengthy and tendentious report accusing Israel of implementing systematic “apartheid” against Palestinians. But something deeply revealing happened when the Israeli journalist Lazar Berman interviewed the group’s secretary general, Agnes Callamard, and its Middle East and North Africa research and advocacy director, Philip Luther. While Berman’s questions were straightforward and even predictable, the two interviewees were at a complete loss to answer them cogently.
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