Anti-Israel Bias
Rep. Marie Newman (D-Ill.) is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee after a report concluded that there was “substantial reason to believe” she had violated federal law by promising employment to a political rival as a part of a quid pro quo.
They also asked U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres and High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to terminate the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry.
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations CEO William Daroff called the probe a “one-sided farce” that “again demonstrates the clear anti-Israel bias in the U.N. body.”
Israeli Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar approved the enacting of Israel’s Boycott Law, passed by the Knesset in 2011 and enables sanctions against companies that harm the Jewish state.
“This sort of rhetoric won’t do anything to solve the underlying problems and only gives talking points to radical extremists,” stated Reps. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) and Steve Chabot (R-Ohio).
Avi Bell, a professor at the University of San Diego School of Law and at Bar-Ilan University’s Faculty of Law, told JNS “the big challenge would be to find any claims by Amnesty that are defensible from a legal point of view.”
Israel ‘must go on offensive’ to counter fallacious content by Amnesty International, urge watchdogs
“The best thing is expose the facts—to show that that they’re making things up,” says Anne Herzberg, legal adviser for NGO Monitor. “Transparency is another big issue. I don’t think anyone has revealed yet who wrote the report.”
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), said the report “belies history, facts and common sense. Israel remains the only democracy in a region of autocrats and human-rights abusers.”
It follows a bipartisan letter by 42 other lawmakers to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling for defunding the Commission of Inquiry.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid says new report calling Israel an “apartheid state” shows that Amnesty is “another radical organization that echoes propaganda with no serious examination. Instead of seeking facts, Amnesty quotes lies spread by terrorist organizations.”
“These have been challenging, exciting years, full of events and activity,” says Bismuth of the post he has held since 2017.
The move follows Ben & Jerry’s decision to break its contract with its Israeli licensee, who refused to stop selling the company’s ice-cream in Judea and Samaria.
