'You can't savage Amnesty International's and Human Rights Watch's work on Israel-Palestine without undermining their work everywhere else.'
The group was also cited extensively in the State Department's"You can't savage Amnesty International's and Human Rights Watch's work on Israel-Palestine without undermining their work everywhere else."
"It says in the report, 'Amnesty International found 'x' with Xinjiang and the Uyghurs and we determine that we think it's a genocide,' and you guys come out and cite that and say, 'We also agree that it's a genocide,'" said Lee, who then asked Price when the State Department has disagreed with the group's human rights findings on countries such as Iran, China, and Syria.
Price dismissed Lee's remarks, saying the State Department has a"vehement disagreement" with Amnesty's report on Israel and Palestine, which detailed Israel's"segregation and control of Palestinians" through restrictions on movement and other policies; the unlawful killing of Palestinians; the deprivation of Palestinians' economic and social rights through illegal blockades, military offensives, and unequal allocation of resources; the unlawful killing of...
On Thursday, human rights groups in Israel condemned attacks on Amnesty's work in Israel and Palestine and accusations that the group's report was antisemitic. "We wholeheartedly reject the idea that Amnesty International's report is baseless, singles out Israel, or displays antisemitic animus,""Attempts to distract from Israeli violations and to avoid substantive debate by hurling spurious accusations is the standard and ongoing practice of successive Israeli governments and their echo chambers overseas," they added.
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