NGO Monitor does excellent work in providing detailed analysis and exposés of politically motivated NGO anti-Israel activities. Without this organization’s contributions, we wouldn’t know even half of what we know about them today. Just take a look at NGO Monitor’s front page:
Also, Amnesty International has been proven in times past to have seriously compromised its supposed ”neutral” role in observing state activities, in its employment of highly biased representatives, such as A.I. Finnish branch head, Frank Johansson, who called Israel a ”scum state”. Johansson is still head of the Finnish branch.
Daniel Taub, Israel’s Ambassador to the UK, said: “Amnesty’s obsessive focus on Israel, and its refusal to recognise the very real threat posed by deliberately-orchestrated violent demonstrations, suggests an agenda that has more to do with politics than human rights.”
Israeli ambassador joins chorus of criticism of Amnesty report on Israel’s ‘trigger happy’ army
Israel has reacted angrily to a report by Amnesty International which accused it of being “trigger happy,” saying that the study showed bias and “lack of experience”
12:05PM GMT 27 Feb 2014
Accusations from Amnesty International that Israel’s army killed Palestinian children with “a callous disregard for human life” have been angrily denied by Israel.
The 87-page report, published on Thursday, detailed what it described as “excessive force to stifle dissent and freedom of expression” since the beginning of 2011. The report accuses Israel of “war crimes and other serious violations of international law” against Palestinians. Amnesty said that more Palestinians living in the West Bank had been killed last year than in 2012 and 2011 combined, and said that more than 8,000 Palestinians – including 1,500 children – have been wounded by rubber bullets and tear gas since 2011.
“The frequency and persistence of arbitrary and abusive force against peaceful protesters in the West Bank by Israeli soldiers and police officers – and the impunity enjoyed by perpetrators – suggests that it is carried out as a matter of policy,” said Philip Luther, Middle East and North Africa director at Amnesty International.
Hours after the report was published, Israeli forces killed a 24-year-old man that they were seeking to arrest, after he refused to turn himself in. Soldiers in the West Bank town of Birzeit bulldozed part of Muataz Washaha’s house after a standoff lasting several hours, and opened fire. His body was found shortly after.
An Israeli military statement said that Washaha had been wanted for “suspected terror activity” and that the forces, which later found an assault rifle in the house, were operating under the premise that he was armed.
