Excerpted from article by Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
Jewish organizations and Israeli officials sharply condemned his words, as did all 25 Jewish Democratic members of Congress.
The director of Amnesty international’s (AI) American branch has apologized to U.S. lawmakers for declaring last month that American Jews want a “safe space” rather than a Jewish state and that Israel should not exist as one. In a March 25 letter obtained by Jewish Insider on Thursday, Paul O’Brien walked back the comments he had made at an event held earlier in the month at the Women’s National Democratic Club…
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O’Brien told a Jewish Insider reporter at the event that although people have a right to self-determination, “we are opposed to the idea — and this, I think, is an existential part of the debate — that Israel should be preserved as a state for the Jewish people…”
O’Brien also went on the attack in backing the recent Amnesty report that fallaciously labeled Israel an apartheid regime…
The human rights organization completely ignored the fact that Israeli Arabs can be found throughout all branches of government and the private sector, leading the advocacy group Coalition for Jewish Values to call Amnesty “an antisemitic hate group.”
Read the full article at World Israel News.