Amnesty slams pro-Israel ‘authoritarian’ bill designed to deny it US federal funding – Middle East Monitor

Amnesty Worldwide has slammed a invoice launched by two staunch pro-Israeli Republican members of Congress designed to disclaim federal monetary assist to the human rights group. Senators Rick Scott and Mike Braun launched the invoice due to what they are saying is the group’s “anti-Israel agenda.”

“This laws follows reviews that Amnesty Worldwide, which has acquired greater than $2.5 million in federal funds over the previous 20 years, is using its platform as an Worldwide Non-Governmental Group (NGO) to foster and disseminate false, anti-Semitic reviews attacking Israel, America’s strongest ally within the Center East,” stated the senators in a press launch introducing the invoice.

“Amnesty Worldwide has confirmed itself to be a sham of a ‘human rights’ group that perpetuates anti-Semitic propaganda and refuses to carry the world’s harmful and genocidal regimes accountable, like Communist China, Iran, Russia and Venezuela,” stated Scott, insisting that US taxpayer cash shouldn’t be used to “demonizes our nice ally, Israel.”

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“Amnesty isn’t any stranger to being focused for its work,” stated the group’s US department in a press release. “Our calls to motion to make sure human rights for all have pressured us to shut our workplaces in India and Hong Kong. The Russian authorities just lately blocked entry to the web at our Moscow workplace,” it continued suggesting that the pro-Israel invoice launched by Scott and Braun is the type of assault that is to be anticipated of authoritarian regimes.

Insisting that it’s unphased by the menace, Amnesty stated: “If Senator Scott had spoken with a few of our 10 million supporters within the US and world wide, he would know that we are going to not be intimidated by authoritarian ways.”

Amnesty claimed that the actions of the 2 Congressmembers signify an try to distract from and discredit its analysis. Refuting Scott and Braun’s allegation that Amnesty is anti-Semitic, the group stated that it condemned all types of hate “within the strongest potential phrases.”

Following the discharge of its report in February by which Amnesty joined different outstanding human rights group in labelling Israel an apartheid state, advocates of the occupation state have accused Amnesty of anti-Semitism. Supporters of Amnesty have dismissed the allegation as an try to defame the group arguing that it had produced numerous reviews exposing human rights abuse world wide for years and nobody accused Amnesty of racism till it printed a report exposing Israel’s crimes in opposition to humanity.