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Amnesty's dirty little secret
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are attacking Israel for acting in self-defense against Hezbollah, accusing her of "war crimes" and "indiscriminate bombardment" in Lebanon. These groups have a long, documented record of disproportionately picking on the Jewish state, so these latest condemnations cannot surprise us. However, Jews will not understand this reflexive anti-Israel attitude unless they step back and examine today's broad human rights agenda, which is blind to the world's most oppressed people.
In 1993 I realized that human rights groups are not actually working for universal human rights. I read in the Economist that black women and children could be bought or sold for $15 dollars in Sudan and Mauritania. I called Amnesty and Human Rights Watch to see if they...