Amnesia – anti-Semitism writ large?

by | Mar 1, 2022 | Articles

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Oh dear. Amnesty International has added another milestone to its journey on the road to egregious intolerance. Since our earlier article, Amnesty has reinforced its credentials as a rabble-rouser against Jews. https://christiancomment.org/2020/12/30/amnesia-international/ Tellingly, if you follow the links in our earlier artcicle, you will find that most have been taken down – Amnesty evidently has some powerful friends in the tech companies.

This year

Two key dates for Jewish people worldwide came in January 2022. First, January 20th marked the 80th anniversary of the infamous “Wannsee Conference”. There, in January 1942, key leaders of Nazi Germany met to plan the “Final Solution to the Jewish Problem”. What emerged has become known the world over as “The Holocaust” (in Israel it is called “The Shoah”): the industrialised slaughter of at least six million Jewish men, women, and children, along with thousands of others from various ethnic, political, and religious minorities across the “Third Reich”.

Then on January 27th (or near to it), many nations marked International Holocaust Memorial Day, and the 77th anniversary of the Allied liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death-camp. At commemorations around the globe the words “Never Again!” were once more uttered. Yet in many of these same nations, Holocaust denial and distortion is on the rise; while daily verbal abuse and physical attacks on Jewish people, businesses and communal meeting places increase at truly alarming rates. These are the incidents that are reported… Many are not.

At the beginning of this February 2022, Amnesty International – a once worthy advocacy organisation that has today utterly lost its way – issued a 280-page report on so-called “apartheid Israel”. Filled with lies and distortions it essentially advocates the destruction the State of Israel. Several key nations – including the USA, UK, Australia, and Germany – strongly condemned this ‘report’ for bias against Israel. Sadly, many other countries, who claim to be Israel’s “friends”, have remained silent. Needless to say, the Palestinian Authority – along with its “allies” around the world – are rubbing their hands with glee at the thought of how they can use the contents of this appalling document to further undermine the legitimacy of the Jewish State.

Just prior to the release of Amnesty’s report, another organ of hatred toward Israel, the ‘United Nations Human Rights Commission’, announced it had established and funded a permanent – repeat, permanent – “Commission of Enquiry” into Israeli “war crimes”. There will, of course, be no investigation of Islamic terror attacks on Israel via the Gaza Strip, from Lebanon, or from Syria. Nor any enquiry into the almost daily threats of annihilation from Iran and its proxies.

Putting all of this together we begin to ask if we have all been transported back into the 1930s… or what?

Other media on Amnesty and Anti-Semitism in Europe

Amnesia – international ‘report’ in 2022
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18199/amnesty-international-israel

Since January 2000 some 60,000 Jewish people have emigrated from France, against a backdrop of widening persecution
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18206/france-freedom