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Amnesty International Apartheid Report Slammed in South Africa for Extreme Bias

(South African Jewish Report) Tali Feinberg - An Amnesty International (AI) report calling Israel an apartheid state has been criticized by leading South African Jewish organizations. The report calls for Palestinian refugees and their descendants "to return to homes where they or their families once lived," which would mean Israel would no longer be a Jewish state. It also calls for Israel to be isolated from the international community. Sara Gon, a policy fellow at the South African Institute for Race Relations, said, "There's no mention of the genocidal anti-Semitism of the Palestinian leadership....AI believes that Israel has no right to exist, and Jews don't even come into the equation." South African Friends of Israel (SAFI) General Manager Pamela Ngubane said the report resorted to "hijacking South Africa's apartheid suffering to defame Israel. Millions of South Africans who suffered and fought under actual apartheid should be angered and insulted by Amnesty's attempt to dilute their own history and experience....SAFI rejects in the strongest terms the report that calls into question Israel's very existence and gives a free pass to terror campaigns against the Jewish state by cloaking the perpetrators in a stolen mantle of victimhood."
2022-02-07 00:00:00
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