 | By Jonathan Hoffman
January 31, 2011 | Share |
Amnesty International has put out a Press Notice "urging the Israeli authorities to end their harassment of Palestinian human rights activists" "after a veteran Palestinian campaigner was jailed for nine years earlier today and given an additional one-year suspended sentence. Ameer Makhoul, a longstanding Palestinian activist, was convicted on various counts of having contact with enemies of Israel and espionage after a plea bargain agreement at his trial. He was originally charged with an even more serious offense, "assisting an enemy in war", which could have carried a life sentence, but that was dropped by the prosecution when he agreed to a plea bargain."
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"Ameer Makhoul is well known for his human rights activism on behalf of Palestinians in Israel and those living under Israeli occupation. We fear that this may be the underlying reason for his imprisonment."
http://www.ngo-monitor.org/digest_info.php?id=3112#head
The truth is here: "On October 27, 2010 Haaretz reported that Ameer Makhoul, the director of Israeli-Arab NGO Ittijah, “confess[ed] to charges of spying, contact with a foreign agent and giving information to the enemy.” Makhoul, as head of Ittijah, has a background of anti-Israel activities characterized by demonisation and hate rhetoric. For example, an Ittijah email during the Gaza war claimed, “the IDF is turning Gaza into kind of an extermination camp, in the full sense of the word and with the full historical relativity.”
Amnesty International in London has had a succession of Israel-bashing speakers such as Ben White. I have offered them Ruvi Ziegler - an Israeli lawyer studying in Oxford who is an expert on the security fence - but they have stonewalled.
Shame on Amnesty International for its Israel-bashing biased agenda
Jonathan Hoffman
31 January, 2011 - 08:08
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There’s more. Read this Globes article
(Hebrew - http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000619117).
Among other items he passed to his handlers, according to his own admission, he identified potential candidates for spying for Hezbollah and forwarded six names. Obviously, contrary to AI’s claim, this is not publicly available information. Additionally, according to his admission, he passed along at least 10 items that he encoded for his handlers. The nature of the information was not stated but even if it were publicly available, it is inconsistent with the claim of an innocent activist passing along knowledge for innocent reasons to another political activist, caught up for political expression.
HT: A friend