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Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Director of Research & Special Projects Liz Berney, Esq. released the following statement:
The latest report from Amnesty International (AI), whose funders include the notorious Jew-hating Israelophobe George Soros, is full of Orwellian, despicable, defamatory, twisted, antisemitic calumnies, and worst of all, promotes the “right” to murder Jews and destroy Israel. The Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan would have applauded this egregious Jew-hating nonsense, which only falsely inspires more hatred and violence against the Jewish State and the Jewish people.
Specifically, the Amnesty International report repeatedly accuses Israel of having “restrictions on the right to popular resistance.”
“Popular resistance” is the well-known, often-used “Palestinian-speak” term that means murdering innocent Jews in stabbing, boulder-throwing, shooting, car-ramming, bombing, rocket and other violent attacks. For instance, after Israeli Arabs in Israeli cities began rioting, burning Jewish synagogues and cars and Jewish homes, looting Jewish homes, and killing and injuring their Jewish neighbors in vicious pogroms in May 2021, the Palestinian Authority’s ruling Fatah party called for “escalating the popular resistance and setting the ground on fire under the occupation’s feet” – meaning escalating those violent, deadly anti-Jewish pogroms.
The Amnesty International report adds even more fuel to the fire by claiming that the “only way” for “Palestinians” to “influence Israeli politics and change political reality in the [so-called] occupied Palestinian territories” is “protest,” and accordingly, the Palestinians have organized “popular resistance,” “popular mobilization,” and the “intifadas” – such as the First and Second Intifadas (e.g., AI Report pages 111-112). The AI report thus legitimizes and promotes these deadly, murderous, inhumane tactics.
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