Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing over 2,500 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in American public policy, today blasted Amnesty International’s new report, “‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza,” as antisemitic propaganda akin to that which led to the murder of six million Jews less than a century ago. In a post to X (formerly Twitter), CJV Managing Director Rabbi Yaakov Menken outlined numerous “obvious lies” packed into the report, which, in its opening sentence, tells readers: “On 7 October 2023, Israel embarked on a military offensive on the occupied Gaza Strip (Gaza) of unprecedented magnitude, scale and duration.”

Amnesty International inverted the victim and murderous attacker. The military offensive of October 7 was the unprovoked attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Only weeks later did Israel enter Gaza in response to the vicious Hamas pogrom involving rapes, kidnappings, beheadings of babies, and mass murder. Only much later in the report does Amnesty acknowledge the mass murder of Israelis that started the war, and Amnesty never directly credits Hamas with the rapes that Hamas proudly livestreamed.

Further, Gaza was not “occupied.” Israel left Gaza in 2005, forcibly removing thousands of Jews from their homes. Amnesty never notes, much less objects to, this act of ethnic cleansing. Instead, it ludicrously asserts that a region utterly Judenrein except for victims of kidnapping was “occupied” by Israel.

Finally, and most critically, Amnesty deliberately mischaracterizes Israel’s military effort to free the hostages and remove the threat that Hamas poses, as “genocide.” It is obviously false (and libelous) to assert that Israel is committing “genocide” when all killings will cease the moment Hamas surrenders and releases the hostages.

“Amnesty clearly accused Israel of ‘genocide’ in order to cover for the openly-genocidal Hamas agenda, and to demonize Israel for forcing the surrender of this terrorist organization,” said CJV Israel Regional Vice President Rabbi Steven Pruzansky. “The report stoops to a level of hatred and bigotry worthy of the Nazi era. Far from being a human rights group, Amnesty International is providing material support to a foreign terror organization—one that openly hopes to implement Hitler’s Final Solution. It is clear that supporting Amnesty today is tantamount to directly supporting that hateful and genocidal cause.”