Dr. Norman Finkelstein: A Forensic Analysis of Amnesty International's Reports on Gaza Following Operation Protective Edge

Amnesty International is among the premier human rights organizations in the world. Its pronouncements shape public opinion, while councils of state feel obliged if not to heed them at any rate to respond. A movement for justice aspiring to reach a broad public and inflect state policy can ill afford to ignore Amnesty if and when it goes astray. It is the contention of this monograph that Amnesty has indeed lost its way, and it is the intention of this monograph to document this proposition, in the hope that Amnesty will perform—or its grassroots membership will compel it to perform—a midcourse correction.

In recent years, Amnesty International has issued meticulously documented, legally unflinching human rights reports on the Israel-Palestine conflict, for example, Operation “Cast Lead”: 22 days of death and destruction, a searing indictment of Israel’s 2008-9 assault on Gaza. But this has not always been the case. For many decades, this venerable human rights organization effectively gave Israel a free pass on its pervasive torture practices in the occupied Palestinian territories. Judging by the reports it issued after Israel’s summer 2014 assault on Gaza, Operation Protective Edge, Amnesty is regressing to its earlier apologetics.

Part 1 - Has Amnesty International Lost Its Way?
https://www.byline.com/project/13/article/149

Part 2 - Ominous Arsenal
https://www.byline.com/project/13/article/163

Part 3 - Evidentiary Bias
https://www.byline.com/project/13/article/170

Part 4 - Targeting of Hospitals, Schools, Mosques, Power Plant
https://www.byline.com/project/13/article/192

Part 5 - Why Israel Targeted Civilian Homes in Gaza
https://www.byline.com/project/13/article/201

Part 6 - The whole point of OPE was to leave 'families under the rubble'
https://www.byline.com/project/13/article/205

Part 7 - Hamas War Crimes and Violations of International Law
https://www.byline.com/project/13/article/211

Part 8 - Indiscriminate and Deliberate Targeting of Civilians and Civilian Objects
https://www.byline.com/project/13/article/220

Part 9 - We entered Gaza with an insane amount of firepower
https://www.byline.com/project/13/article/227

Part 10 - Why didn't Hamas fighters line up like ducks?
https://www.byline.com/project/13/article/240

Conclusion - Amnesty's Betrayal of a Forsaken People
https://www.byline.com/project/13/article/261

Paul de Rooij: Amnesty International - Whitewashing Another Massacre in Gaza
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/08/amnesty-international-whitewashing-another-massacre/