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and under
in 1961 by lawyer Peter
Benenson, scion of a leading
Anglo-Jewish family which
was reknowned for its
Zionist activism.
Benenson, she says,
"rejected everything the
family stood for, including
Judaism," and created
something of a scandal at
Amnesty's 25th anniversary
celebrations in May 1986 by
calling for a boycott of Israel
to protest Israeli policies.
"He constantly referred to
Israel as Palestine," Moon-
man said, "and he constant- -
ly compared Israel to South
Africa." Amnesty Interna-
tional was sufficiently em-
barrassed by Benenson's
outburst that its chairman
dissociated himself and the
Nothing that Israel
has done could
begin to match the
atrocities
committed by its
neighbors.
organization from the sen-
timents of its founder.
Nevertheless, in the con-
text of the Israel-Palestinian
dispute, Israel alone is por-
trayed as the violator and
the abuser of human rights.
In all the mass of press
releases and pamphlets that
Amnesty sent me, I read not
one word to suggest that the
Palestine Liberation
Organization might be guil-
ty of incitement, intimida-
tion, assault, murder, acts of
terrorism, even the teeniest
infringement of human
rights.
Could this lack of balance
be attributable to a charter
which holds governments
alone to be responsible and
accountable for violations?
No, I discovered on a closer
reading of Amnesty's bulky
package.
"Some groups in opposi-
tion to governments have
acquired characteristics that
in practice make them simi-
lar to governments," notes
an official Amnesty tract,
and the organization
"expects them to respect in-
ternational human rights
standards."
It occurred to me that the
PLO — which has proclaim-
ed a Palestinian state, which
is recognized by more coun-
tries than recognize Israel
and which claims to be the
sole, legitimate represen-
tative of the Palestinian
people — must surely qualify
for consideration under
Amnesty's own rules.
This point clearly upset
the otherwise smooth, ar-
ticulate presentation by
Richard Reoch, a charming
Canadian who has been with
Amnesty for 21 years and is
now the organization's head
of press and publications.
Waving a plastic card,
Reoch let me into the com-
puter- guarded headquarters
of Amnesty in a heavily
commercial district of cen-
tral London.
It was not only Jews and
Israelis who got mad at the
organization, he assured me
cheerfully. Either they are
angry that we criticized
their government or they are
angry that we did not. We
get it both ways."
Reoch, just back from
Jerusalem where he was the
star attraction at a public
meeting to discuss Israel and
Amnesty International, was
feeling particularly on top of
Israeli and Jewish sen-
sitivities.
Instead of meeting an
"Amnesty International
animal obsessed with
Israel," he said, the Israeli
audience had come to under-
stand that the organization
dealt with many countries.
It was only on the subject
of Amnesty International's
total failure to condemn
decades of human rights
abuses by Palestinians —.
against each other, against
Israelis specifically and
against Jews generally —
that Reoch's confidence
faltered.
He said a debate was
raging within the organiza-
tion about whether to stick
strictly to the original letter
of its charter and deal only
with governments, or
whether to broaden the con-
cept of human rights to in-
clude non-governmental
bodies.
The "purists" argued that
human rights were in
essence about the relation-
ship between the individual
and the state and that to
broaden that brief would be
to plunge Amnesty into
chaos.
The "reformers," however,
insisted that Amnesty's pre
sent stance left it vulnerable
to accusations of imbalance
and that the real world
—where non-governmental
groups took hostages, com-
mitted atrocities and in-
dulged in terrorism — must
be taken into account.
Three days later, for the
first time, Amnesty Interna-
tional condemned the
murder of 100 Palestinian
"collaborators" in the ter-
ritories.
Amnesty then went on to
insist that Israel track down
and prosecute the killers,
reminding the world that it
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