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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/11/28/btselem-award-al-haq/
 
 
If there was ever a moment that captured the moral rot at the core of
the human rights community, surely it is this new development: the
Danish PL Foundation has awarded its annual human rights prize jointly
to the Israeli group B’Tselem and to the Palestinian group Al Haq.
 
The award will be presented in Copenhagen a few days from now, but
only Jessica Montell, the head of B’Tselem, will be on hand to receive
it. The head of Al Haq, Shawan Jabarin, cannot fly to Europe, or in
fact anywhere — because he is banned from travel by both Israel and
Jordan owing to his extensive involvement with the  Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine, an infamous Palestinian terrorist group.
 
Remarkably, Montell will accept the award, and so proud is she to be
sharing a prize with a terrorist that B’Tselem sent out a press
release announcing it.
 
Al Haq, for its part, barely pretends to be interested in human
rights. It advances spurious war crimes allegations against the Jewish
state, promotes the worst kinds of anti-Israel (and anti-Semitic)
activism, such as the Russell Tribunal and the Durban Conference, is
deeply involved in the BDS and lawfare movements, and seeks the
indictment of Israeli officials in European courts — goals, of course,
often shared by Montell and B’Tselem.
 
The willingness of Montell to share an award with a terrorist is but a
small window into the perverse world of the “human rights” community
in Israel. The Palestinian groups specialize not in promoting peace
and tolerance, but in attacking the legitimacy of Zionism and
tarnishing Israel’s image in the world. Greatly enamored of
international prosecutions of Israelis, I cannot recall a single
instance in which one of the groups recommended the same treatment for
a Palestinian. Tellingly, none of them takes a prominent stand against
Palestinian terrorism or defends the human rights of Israelis not to
be victims of attacks — and in the case of Al Haq, terrorism is in
fact endorsed as legitimate “resistance.”
 
And they are joined, sadly, by groups such as B’Tselem, which call
themselves Israeli, but cannot seem to find any actual Israelis
willing to support them. They thus depend for their livelihood on
donations from foreign governments and foundations. It is a profitable
arrangement for everyone involved: the Europeans get a fig leaf of
Israeli cover for the advancement of an anti-Israel agenda, and
radicals such as Montell enjoy prominence they would never achieve
without their careers being underwritten by foreign benefactors.
 
It is this state of affairs that the Knesset sought to begin
addressing through recently-proposed NGO legislation. No other
democracy would tolerate the flourishing of a foreign-funded political
war against its legitimacy from within its own borders, and while the
new bills have their shortcomings — and some do not deserve passage in
their present form — the reasons they have been proposed are
legitimate and serious. The Washington Post editorial page, normally a
sober source of commentary on Israel, editorialized against these anti-
NGO bills last week, specifically citing B’Tselem as an example of a
foreign-funded group that only has Israel’s best interests at heart.
The editorialists at the Post would do well to pay closer attention.
Something has gone horribly wrong when the head of a human rights
organization is proud to share a prize with a leader of a terrorist
group.

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qui c'era il post di uno che una volta diceva di essere half britt ed
ora si e' scoperto norvegese.
 
 

 group.
 
quoto. Mettere un'assistente del marito di Bill Clinton a capo della
sezione yankee di Amnesty International è una macchia che cancellerà
ogni traccia di credibilità di quell'associazione per almeno un
millennio

 millennio
 
si e' gia' squalificata da sola
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gita_Sahgal#Amnesty_International_controversy.3B_Moazzam_Begg_and_Cageprisoners