The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) released a statement on Wednesday condemning a planned report accusing Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip that will be published on Dec. 5 by Amnesty International.
CAMERA called the charges of genocide “baseless and malicious, relying on disinformation and invented legal standards to deny the Jewish state its right to self-defense following Hamas’s genocidal attack on Oct. 7, 2023.”
“The respect once afforded to Amnesty International as a legacy institution is no longer tenable,” David Litman, a senior analyst at CAMERA, told JNS. “The professionalism that once defined Amnesty is now absent, replaced with ideological fervor. Sadly, truth isn’t the only victim.”
“Few have done more to erode confidence in the cause of human rights than Amnesty,” he added.
The International Legal Forum, which is urging President-elect Donald Trump to name Amnesty International as a hate group and apply sanctions, also condemned the charge against the Jewish state.
“To accuse Israel of ‘genocide’ in Gaza is a gross and egregious subversion and weaponization of the very term itself, made even more unconscionable given the Oct. 7 attacks were the largest mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust,” the organization said in a statement provided to JNS.
Anne Herzberg, legal advisor at NGO Monitor, said that “Amnesty’s immoral attack targeting Israel is blatant genocide inversion that seeks to turn necessary defense against terror atrocities into a heinous international crime. The NGO twists and invents legal standards, erases the monstrous Hamas war crimes of Oct. 7 and turns unverifiable accusations into ‘evidence.'”
She continued, noting for more than two decades, “Amnesty, whose founder Peter Benenson was a strong supporter of Israel, has repeated false accusations of war crimes, apartheid and similar labels that are designed to demonize and delegitimize Israel’s existence.”