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Carrying
on its long tradition of unfairly attacking Israel, Amnesty International has
published another hatchet job masquerading as a serious investigation this
week.
The
report, “Israel/OPT: Civilian deaths and extensive destruction in latest Gaza
offensive highlight human toll of apartheid,” accuses Israel of committing a
war crime in its pursuit of Islamic Jihad terrorists in the Gaza Strip last
month.
As
is the usual fashion when it comes to Amnesty, the 1,300-word denunciation of
Israel exercising its legally-sanctioned right to defend itself is replete with
hyperbole, distortions and outright lies — the latter demonstrated in Amnesty
repeating its well-worn libel that Israel is an apartheid state.
Given
that Amnesty so clearly has an anti-Israel axe to grind, one would think that
reputable news organizations, like the BBC, which prides itself on its
commitment to impartiality, would take anything published on the Amnesty
website with a pinch of salt.
Alas,
not so.
Instead,
the BBC has regurgitated almost word-for-word Amnesty’s most damaging
allegations surrounding Israel’s role in the May conflagration, including
Amnesty’s claim that the IDF mounted “disproportionate air strikes which killed
Palestinian civilians.”
Of
course, and this should go without saying, there is nothing disproportionate
about killing terrorists who are planning to launch attacks on Israeli
civilians.
In
the piece, ‘Amnesty: Possible war crimes in recent Israel-Gaza fighting,’ the
BBC’s Middle East desk correspondent David Gritten quotes at length Amnesty’s
repeated claim that Israeli strikes to take out Islamic Jihad commanders were
excessive, as well as the NGO’s malicious assertion that the risk to civilians
in Gaza was “likely disregarded” by those in Israel who “planned and authorised
the attacks.”
While
Amnesty may have convinced most journalists that it is an unimpeachable source
of information, the BBC should really have examined the organization’s sad and
sorry history of getting things wrong or letting its ideologically-driven
leanings interfere in conflicts that it apparently knows very little about.
For
example, Amnesty was widely criticized last year when it released a report that
accused the Ukrainian military of endangering civilians by “establishing bases
and operating weapons systems in populated residential areas, including in
schools and hospitals” — apparently forgetting that Ukraine was forced to
position soldiers in urban areas to avoid being completely overrun by invading
Russian troops and to protect those very Ukrainian civilians in the path of
Russia’s military.
Unsurprisingly,
when Islamist terrorists plant rockets inside and underneath civilian centers
in Gaza, Amnesty has very little to say in the way of condemnation.
However,
the most worrying aspect of the article is Gritten’s abject failure to probe
the veracity of Amnesty’s allegations, as any serious journalist should.
If
he had, he would have noted that Amnesty’s claim that Israel started the five
days of fighting, is complete and utter fiction. As HonestReporting has
repeatedly pointed out, Operation Shield and Arrow was launched in response to
a barrage of rocket fire from the Strip after Islamic Jihad terrorist Khader
Adnan eventually died in an Israeli prison following a protracted hunger strike
in a bid to secure his release.
Gritten
also appears to go to great lengths to clean up Islamic Jihad’s image,
particularly by not bothering to mention that the group is an
internationally-recognized terrorist organization that has been proscribed by
pretty much the entire Western world, including the United Kingdom where the
BBC is based.
Indeed,
Gritten even prominently features the group’s “spokesman” Tariq Salmi saying
Islamic Jihad welcomed Amnesty’s report, which “proves that the occupation
[Israel] was the one that began the aggression by committing grave crimes.”
This, while not mentioning the fact that the group’s sworn goal is the
annihilation of the Jewish state using “the Jihad solution and the martyrdom
style as the only choice for liberation.”
As
an independent organization, Amnesty International is free to publish as many
unfair screeds about Israel as it likes.
As
a state-funded broadcaster tasked with delivering non-partisan news coverage to
millions, the BBC should robustly challenge Amnesty’s biased bilge.
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