Tag: Amnesty International
In wake of Amnesty ‘apartheid’ report, Palestinians urge UN to sanction Israel
The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday night welcomed Amnesty International UK’s report accusing Israel of apartheid, and also urged the U.N. General Assembly and Security Council to impose sanctions on the Jewish state. The P.A. also called...
The Amnesty report on Israel affirms the PLO’s 60-year ‘apartheid’ strategy
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,...
Report: State Department weighs designating human-rights groups ‘anti-Semitic’
U.S. President Donald Trump may soon declare that several prominent international NGOs, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam are, in fact, anti-Semitic organizations, Politico reported on Thursday.
Citing sources familiar with the issue, the report...
Amnesty International and Qatari information warfare
Amnesty International recently suffered a blow, potentially as much to its reputation as to its operations, when the Tel Aviv District Court ruled to dismiss its complaint against Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group/Q Cyber...
Tel Aviv court decision is a setback to dubious accusations against NSO
Since at least 2018, Amnesty International had gone on a mission trying to expose the Israeli cybersecurity Pegasus software producer NSO Group/Q Cyber Technologies of allegedly playing a role in facilitating human-rights abuses, in...
Court rejects Amnesty petition to revoke export license of Israeli spyware firm
The Tel Aviv District Court ruled on Monday against an Amnesty International petition to cancel the export license of the Israel-based technology company NSO Group, whose spyware, Pegasus, enables the remote surveillance of smartphones.
Amnesty...
Watchdog accuses Amnesty International of anti-Semitic campaign against Israel’s tourism industry
Amnesty International published “The Tourism Industry and Israeli Settlements” on Jan. 29, a report alleging that “the Israeli government has political and ideological reasons for developing a tourism industry in occupied East Jerusalem and Area...
Israel to apply anti-BDS law to Amnesty International
Israel is acting to enforce anti-BDS law against Amnesty International after the human-rights organization embarked on a campaign calling for a boycott of products from Judea and Samaria, as well as a weapons embargo on Israel, which...
WORLD American Media Continues to Ignore Historic Hunger Strike Underway in Israeli Prisons
Since April 17, over 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners have been on hunger strike. Each time the political prisoners declare their intention to strike, Israeli authorities put them into solitary confinement. Attorneys for Addameer, a...