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Amnesty orders official to apologise for tweet

An Amnesty International disciplinary process has concluded that a senior official’s tweet about three Jewish MPs was “inappropriate and offensive”.

December 20, 2012 10:24
Amnesty's Kristyan Benedict

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Marcus Dysch,

Marcus Dysch

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An Amnesty International disciplinary process has concluded that a senior official’s tweet about three Jewish MPs was “inappropriate and offensive”, but not antisemitic.

Kristyan Benedict, the charity’s campaigns manager, took to Twitter during a Parliamentary debate about the violence in Israel and Gaza last month.

He wrote: “Louise Ellman, Robert Halfon and Luciana Berger walk into a bar…each orders a round of B52s … #Gaza”.

The B52 cocktail was named after the long-range US bomber and contains shots of coffee liqueur, Baileys and brandy.