A new report into humanitarian NGO Amnesty International accuses the organisation of “an institutional hostility towards Israel that borders on obsession”.

The report is based on an investigation by researcher David Collier into social media and other public activities by Amnesty staff.

Mr Collier concludes that “it is as if Amnesty has declared war on Israel”.

The report draws on hundreds of thousands of social media posts from over 50 Amnesty accounts, as well as the output of more than 40 staff and volunteers who work or have worked for the NGO.

Among the accounts cited are those of an Amnesty media manager for the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region who advised Palestinian terror groups like Hamas not to publicly identify their “martyrs” if they were lost in an action, but rather to have the West believe the fallen were innocent civilians.

An Amnesty consultant tweeted an image of two Islamic Jihad terrorists, with a love heart, and wrote the word ‘heroes’ above the images. In the same week, she tweeted that others in Gaza should be careful about what they say publicly so as not to harm “the resistance”.

Mr Collier writes that following the abolition of an Amnesty rule preventing people from working on issues where they may have a conflict of interest, the NGO now employs people with a history of anti-Israel activism who are then sent as supposedly unbiased human rights workers to report on what is happening in the region.