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STATEMENT BY ISGAP RESEARCH FELLOWS
ON AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S REPORT AGAINST ISRAEL

“ISGAP strongly rejects the biased antisemitic tropes found within
Amnesty International’s recent report, “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity.”

The bending of history and facts in this report is a prime example of how contemporary antisemitism manifests itself, with the sole goal of dismantling
the only Jewish State.”

ISGAP Fellows have organized a number of resources that counter the report’s antisemitic claims. Please bookmark the page on our website as it will be regularly updated. The current resources are listed below:

Responses in Official Statements

The report’s central charge of apartheid has been rejected in official statements from representatives of several democratic governments:

The US State Department spokesman, Ned Price, said in his daily briefing for reporters on 2 February 2022: “We reject the view that Israel’s actions constitute apartheid.”
The US Ambassador to Israel, Thomas Nides, said in a Tweet on 1 February 2022: “Come on, this is absurd. That is not language that we have used and will not use.”
US President Joe Biden’s nominee for the US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, Professor Deborah Lipstadt, similarly said in evidence to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee: “I found the language used in that report more than ahistorical. I found it unhistorical. Branding Israel an apartheid state is more than historically inaccurate. I believe it’s part of a larger effort to delegitimize the Jewish state. Such language, I see it spilling over onto campuses where it poisons the atmosphere, particularly for Jewish students.“
The UK Government’s adviser on antisemitism, Lord Mann, said with regard to the report: “It is time for Amnesty to receive some training in what antisemitism is.”
A spokesperson for the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office stated: “We do not agree with the use of this terminology.”
German Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Christopher Burger, stated on 2 February 2022: “We reject expressions like apartheid or a one-sided focusing of criticism on Israel. That is not helpful to solving the conflict in the Middle East.”
French Prime Minister, Jean Castex, denounces AI at CRIF dinner stating, “How dare anyone speak of apartheid in a state where Arab citizens are represented in the government, in the parliament, in leadership positions and in positions of responsibility, where all citizens, regardless of their religion, have understood that their only hope is peace together…”
The President of the Czech Republic, Milos Zeman, wrote to the President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, “I am horrified about such a strong antisemitic stand and I completely condemn such unilateral statement” (unofficial translation Tweeted by the Czech Embassy in Israel).
The Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated in a Tweet on 3 February 2022: “We do not consider the use of the term “apartheid” in the context of the Middle East conflict to be appropriate. The serious crime of apartheid refers to a specific context. We reject the application of this term to the State of Israel.”
A spokesperson for the Australian Foreign Minister, Marise Payne, stated: “We do not agree with the report’s characterisations of Israel.”

Numerous organisations representing Jewish communities have expressed concern that the report will promote antisemitism: Toliau skaityti “ISGAP Research Fellows Statement on Amnesty International’s Report Against Israel”

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