Amnesty International
started off in 1961
devoted to simple human rights.
Campaigning for democrats imprisoned by dictators. That kind of thing.
Sadly, like many an organisation, they gradually got taken over by people with larger agendas.
They are one of the worst examples
of left-wing
"mission creep".
They now have opinions on every topic, and many of their opinions are awful.
They have stupid and offensive leftist politics on issues to do with
the frontline Western states
- the US, UK and Israel
- and they are not trustworthy on those issues.
On other parts of the world they are fairly objective.
They are willing to criticise
communists,
Muslims, Arabs
and black Africans,
for example.
(Whereas many on the left won't.)
Ultimately, their good parts are too weak to compensate for their bad parts.
They have lost their way, and while I would quote their country reports for many countries,
I would not donate to them any more.
In 2002-2003, I was shocked to discover Amnesty opposing the War on Iraq to depose the democidal dictator Saddam Hussein.
I don't think it is appropriate
for a human rights organisation to be opposing a war to depose
a dictator.
They should stick to known human rights violations,
rather than getting involved in the political decision as to whether this war or that
against a dictator is a good idea.
The derangement of Amnesty in one image:
The most mentioned countries in Amnesty annual reports.
Israel is always no.1 or no.2.
From here.
Simplistic anti-Israel propaganda from Amnesty International.
At the time of the
2008-09 Gaza War.
Oh
Thandie Newton
I'm sorry I saw you talk such nonsense!
She says Israel has committed
"war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza."
Trying to hit Hamas rocket teams is a "crime against humanity"?
Talk about debasing the meaning of language.
The reality of the 2008-2009 Gaza war:
Hamas fighter
calls for local children to come and help him escape from a building
without being fired on from the air.
Their parents are happy for the children to be used in jihad.
The fighter leaves
using the children as human shields.
Hamas knows how decent the Israelis are.
They use that fact as a weapon of war in order to kill more Jews.
Nothing sums up the sad decline of Amnesty better than the fact that
they now claim that Jews building houses
are "war crimes".
What a pathetic organisation.
Amnesty, Nov 2019, says that Jews building houses
are "war crimes".
They absurdly say that:
"the construction & maintenance of settlements in the Occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, breaches international law & amounts to war crimes."
How far they have come since the days when they just focused on democrats imprisoned by dictators.
I sum up
the long and sad decline of Amnesty, July 2019.
From an organisation concerned about prisoners of conscience
to an organisation concerned about where Jews live.
"How can I be happy while Jews are building houses?"
- Amnesty International.
Image from here.
A "crime against humanity"
used to mean something.
It used to be a serious charge, of something like democide or genocide.
Now it just means any crime at all, real or imaginary.
It
just means anything leftists like Amnesty do not like.
If next week Amnesty describes Brexit as a "crime against humanity"
it would not surprise me.
For some reason, Amnesty is angry about 225,000 Jews
who it says are living "illegally" in East Jerusalem,
including in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem.
Lots of
Jews living in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem
makes Amnesty angry, for some reason, that says a lot about Amnesty and not about anyone else.
Amnesty officials interviewed by Times of Israel, Feb 2022.
What is extraordinary is how vague the Amnesty officials' hatred of Israel is.
They sure hate Israel, and are angry at Jews living somewhere,
but their answers as to why
they are angry
are as vague and jumbled as any students union leftist.
"Evict 0.6 million people from their homes",
declares depraved, corrupted "human rights" organisation Amnesty, March 2023.
Amnesty are happy to partner with people who hate human rights
and support human rights abusers like the Taliban.
Amnesty sacked the head of their Gender Unit,
Gita Sahgal, in 2010
for complaining about their relationship with Moazzam Begg.
Standing up for jihadis rather than prisoners of conscience:
Amnesty, 1 Dec 2011, calls for the arrest of former U.S. President George W. Bush
for waterboarding jihadists.
As if that's a big crime.
Why don't they call for the arrest of U.S. President Barack Obama for killing jihadists without trial?
It seems agenda-driven
to call for Bush's arrest but not Obama's arrest.
Amnesty's campaign for Mohmoud Abu Rideh
(or Mahmud Abu Rideh)
illustrates why I no longer support Amnesty.
At some point, Amnesty switched from defending foreign democrats and human rights campaigners
to defending all prisoners - including
violent people who despise democracy and human rights.
The useful leftie idiots who joined the above campaign
got him freed in 2009.
In 2010, oddly enough, he was
killed fighting with the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Shame on Amnesty for defending jihadis like this
and helping them do their evil work.
Amnesty MENA, 2 May 2023, mourns the death of Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader
Khader Adnan.
The guy called for the killing of random Jews, and Amnesty does not care.
Amnesty main account
also promotes this violent racist terrorist who hated human rights.
Amnesty used to refuse to defend people linked in any way to violence.
Amnesty was a better organisation then.
This is from their
1964-65 report:
"the movement recorded that it could not give the name of 'Prisoner of Conscience' to anyone associated with violence".
They refused to defend IRA prisoners in the Troubles because they were violent.
They refused to support Mandela
because he was violent.
"Prisoner of conscience"
used to mean something different.
Osama Saeed
was appointed in 2016 as communications director for Amnesty International.
He was formerly spokesman for the extremist Islamist
Muslim Association of Britain
from 2002 to 2007.
Quilliam, 2009,
describes him as an Islamist.
They show a mountain of evidence of his Islamist extremism,
including support for Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
See more
and more.
NGO Monitor on Yasmin Hussein, Amnesty International's Director of Faith and Human Rights.
They claim she
"has links to the Muslim Brotherhood and possibly to Hamas".
"Amnesty International - from bias to obsession". 200 page report on Amnesty and Israel by David Collier, Dec 2019.
"Every part of Amnesty's arsenal spends a disproportionate amount of time attacking Israel. When fused together in a coordinated manner, the focus appears obsessive and persecutory. Campaigns against Israel are visibly better funded, more frequent and promoted with far more energy - than anything else Amnesty International undertakes."
Scrutinize Amnesty International
by Gerald Steinberg, May 23, 2007,
says that:
"in 2006, Amnesty singled out Israel for condemnation of human rights
to a far greater extent than Iran, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Syria, Egypt,
and other chronic abusers of human rights.
During the year, Amnesty issued 48 publications critical of Israel, compared to 35 for Iran, 2 for Saudi Arabia, and only 7 for Syria."
Head of Finland branch of Amnesty International
calls Israel a "scum state", Aug 2010.
See more.
"Asked whether there are other countries aside from Israel that, according to him, meet the definition of a "scum state," Johansson did not specify any, but noted that there are "Russian officials" who meet the criteria."
Amnesty's journey towards human rights abuser is complete.
Amnesty hosts an
anti-Israel hatefest in London, May 2011.
This featured
Islamic terror supporter
Abd al-Bari Atwan,
who supports nuking the Jews of Israel:
"If the Iranian missiles strike Israel, by Allah, I will go to Trafalgar Square and dance with delight."
See also
Michael Weiss
and
Richard Millett
on Amnesty's Islamist partner
Middle East Monitor (MEMO).
I will never donate to Amnesty again!
Elder of Ziyon
contrasts two Amnesty reports in 2014
- on Israel (counter-jihad operations by a restrained liberal democracy)
and Syria (disgusting butcher and dictator
slaughters his own citizens).
John Connolly, 12 Mar 2014, says it seems Amnesty's heart is not in things like the Syria report:
"[The Syria report] is as dry as a Wikipedia summary, reading like something Amnesty only had to do because they were obliged. [The anti-Israel report] 'Trigger-happy', on the other hand, is an emotive call to action, somebody at Amnesty's personal crusade. 'Trigger-happy' was displayed prominently on the front page of their website for two weeks. The other was there for a day."
Amnesty's obsession with Israel:
Breakdown of tweets by official Amnesty Twitter account, July-Aug 2015.
(No, there was no war on. They just hate Israel.)
From here.
This tweet of 12 July 2015 shows why you can't trust Amnesty.
The house that the IAF attacked was a major
Hamas command and control centre
with at least six
or seven
terrorist fighters present.
But Amnesty thinks we don't need to know that.
Syksy Rasanen,
board member of Amnesty Finland, is angry at Germany banning Hezbollah, May 2020.
This person shows why I no longer donate to Amnesty, and never will again until they get rid of everyone like this.
Amnesty International's "Apartheid" Video: 15 Lies in 15 Minutes.
From CAMERA.
PFLP terrorist
Walid Daqqa
dies in prison in April 2024.
He kidnapped an Israeli soldier who was hitch-hiking, cut off his penis and gouged out his eyes.
And here is how Amnesty reacts.
They call him a "writer".
Old Amnesty: Campaigning for democrats unjustly imprisoned by dictators.
New Amnesty: Pimping for properly convicted murderers of Israelis for no apparent reason other than that Amnesty hates Israelis.
Rudolph J. Rummel
estimates that 39 million innocent people
died in the Soviet gulags.
Amnesty's Idiocy
by John Podhoretz, on the difference between Guantanamo and a real gulag.
"Maybe the people who work at Amnesty International really do think that
the imprisonment of 600 certain or suspected terrorists is tantamount to
the imprisonment of 25 million slaves.
The case of Amnesty International proves that well-meaning people can make morality their life's work
and still be little more than moral idiots."
The Jawa Report,
on what the Soviet gulags were really like.
"For Amnesty International to stoop to the low of making such a comparison
reveals their ignorance of history
and their political bias against the United States.
...
Shame on you Amnesty International, I will never take your accusations seriously again."
People who were actually in the gulag
criticise Amnesty:
Pavel Litvinov:
"By any standard, Guantanamo and similar American-run prisons elsewhere do not resemble,
in their conditions of detention or their scale, the concentration camp system
that was at the core of a totalitarian communist system."
Natan Sharanksy
describes Amnesty's gulag analogy as
"typical, unfortunately".
James Taranto,
November 21, 2006,
on a case where a jihadi is refusing to have a required heart procedure
done at Guantanamo because he thinks its medical facilities are inadequate.
"The poor terrorist has to get a lawyer to keep those monsters at Guantanamo
from performing life-saving surgery on him.
You see why people keep comparing Guantanamo to Nazi Germany. The parallels are eerie."
Amnesty used to be about prisoners of conscience.
But they now seem to have an opinion on everything.
Anti-death penalty
I have long disagreed with Amnesty on
the death penalty
for murderers.
It is a matter of opinion whether there is anything wrong with this.
Amnesty over the years has used this issue to focus a disproportionate amount of attention
on the USA,
which gets more of their attention than many
actual tyrannies.
Amnesty Ireland runs a
campaign about the quality of healthcare in Ireland,
a rich western country.
Healthcare is already free in Ireland,
and accounts for
20 to 25 percent of all state spending.
Amnesty are complaining that its quality should be better
(and taxes should be higher to pay for that).
You may agree or disagree, but this is a massive divergence from Amnesty's original mission
into a general platform of left-leaning ideas that you may or may not support.
Amnesty, Jan 2017, has views on Donald Trump as well. They have views on everything.
It doesn't matter that I agree with them on Trump.
The point is they have out-of-control mission creep.
I am pro-abortion myself,
provided that the cut off point is early enough
(1st trimester or so).
However, Amnesty's decision in 2007
to take a position on this controversial topic
is perhaps the biggest example of the mission creep that has totally changed the organisation.
It is
quite a divergence from their original mission.
Amnesty are a grab bag of leftist viewpoints, some of which I agree with, some of which I don't.
This is on the
front page of Amnesty Ireland as at Dec 2014.
If you're anti-abortion, don't join Amnesty International.
Video attacking Amnesty from anti-abortion group
Youth Defence.
I don't agree with Youth Defence.
A blastocyst
is not the same as a
25 week old fetus.
However, this does illustrate how Amnesty are not really a charity any more.
They are a controversial political party now,
with controversial positions
that many people disagree with.
This screenshot is all you need to see that Amnesty is a worthless organisation now.
The opening line of the Amnesty report
"Israel's Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza",
5 December 2024.
See here.
The opening line is:
"On 7 October 2023, Israel embarked on a military offensive on the occupied Gaza Strip (Gaza)
of unprecedented magnitude, scale and duration."
That is the opening line.
That is what happened on 7 October 2023.
Amnesty is a worthless organisation now.
