Travesty International   

Amnesty’s Israel obsession is bigotry pure and simple. Here’s a roadmap to Amnesty’s travesty, in eight easy steps

The report was absurd, a combination of misleading information and outright lies, and the product of rabid anti-Semites. The bottom line was that in a modern Middle East full of dictators and terror regimes, the region’s lone democracy was once again singled out for condemnation.

Some might argue that it would be better not to dignify such bigotry with a response, but in a world of rising anti-Semitism that is demonstrably tied to anti-Zionism, knowing how to respond is important. So here’s a roadmap to Amnesty’s travesty, in eight easy steps:

1. Apartheid involves race

There are two generally accepted definitions of apartheid under international law. Per the United Nations’ 1973 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, apartheid includes “inhumane acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them.”

In 1998, the Rome Statute, which defines crimes under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, codified something similar: Apartheid consists of “inhumane acts… committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.”