Hold the front page! A new report from Amnesty International has documented “abuses by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups during the attacks of 7 October 2023 on southern Israel and the treatment of those seized and held captive in the occupied Gaza Strip.”
This marks a step up from the civil rights group’s previous low-key recognition that Hamas and others committed war crimes, as legally defined, during their October 7th pogrom.
Critics have noticed the glacial pace with which Amnesty trundled into action, especially in comparison to its prompt condemnations of Israel culminating, for now at least, in tech-savvy sounding allegations of “livestreamed genocide.”
Despite both its news coverage and its late delivery, the report still manages to pull its punches. Charles Lane, nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, claims
A planned report on the terrorist group’s crimes turned into a moral muddle, including a long critique of Israel.
The delay and equivocation are reportedly the product of internal divisions within Amnesty itself, sections of which appear more sympathetic to Hamas terrorists than others.
Doubters of the righteousness of Amnesty International can now look forward to the timely publication of its report into Boer War-era human rights violations.
