Amnesty International Investigation Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide

[al bupp]

27. If that's true

Then the blatant partiality of the authors of Amnesty Israel's report, which included exactly zero people Palestinian descent, has to also be true.

Referring to what Daniil Brodsky says in his rebuttal to Amnesty Israel's report (linked once more here):

The lack of any Palestinians members being involved in writing it...

" isn’t because there were no Palestinians present. Amnesty Israel had skilled Palestinian staff and board members ready to contribute. It wasn’t because the Palestinians in Amnesty Israel have no legal expertise — after all, the Israeli staff doesn’t either. It’s because, as Palestinian activists and scholars Haneen Maikey and Lana Tatour have pointed out, a common pattern in progressive Israeli spaces is that Palestinians can provide labor, translation, lived experience and trauma to feed the analysis of Israeli Jews, but cannot be equal partners (emphasis mine) who get to do the analysis side by side and set the agenda together."

"Amnesty Israel finds itself in the awkward position of being neither a source of legal expertise, nor providing a diverse human rights perspective of Israelis and Palestians. It is just another place for Israeli Jews to express themselves."

As for Daniil's short tenure at Amnesty Israel, it was cut-off not due to being "ill-suited", unless that's a euphemism for objecting racist practices, but because he resigned, for the reasons laid out in his opinion piece. Arguing that his short tenure there demonstrates his incompetence is a circular and obviously self-serving argument. If Amnesty Israel's wasn't so clearly biased towards the perspective of only Israelis, then he might have remained as their chair of the board for who knows how long. By the way, what do his so-called "rather unimpressive credentials" say about Amnesty Israel in selecting his the chair of their board?

About the partiality of Amnesty Israel, in Daniil's own words:

"When I became chairman of Amnesty Israel in January 2024, there were no Palestinians on the board of managers or in managerial positions on staff. By way of comparison, this is a lower standard than the one found in Israeli public service and government-owned corporations (emphasis mine), which are, according to the attorney general’s guidelines, at least obligated to have a proper representation of Arabs “in all ranks and professions, in every office and auxiliary unit,” including the board of directors."

The "shitty" job that was done was Amnesty Israel's report, which was obviously and partial and "agenda-driven". Again in Daniil's words:

"I insisted on Palestinian representation in managerial roles, but nothing changed. Members of management and the board were reluctant to make the necessary structural adjustments. Staff told me that there was a rule that says a Palestinian staff member must be consulted on issues pertaining to Palestinians, something Amnesty Israel pointed out in their defense recently."

So, it turns out that Amnesty Israel didn't even follow its own rules in writing the report. Seems like evidence of an "agenda-driven" argument to me.