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Saturday, May 26, 2007

Scrutinize Amnesty International

Not much to this story, but the concept deserves serious consideration.
Recently, the Economist, published in Britain, noted that "an organisation which devotes more pages in its annual report to human-rights abuses in Britain and America than those in Belarus and Saudi Arabia cannot expect to escape doubters' scrutiny." Other critics, including law professor at Harvard, Alan Dershowitz, and the U.S.-based Capital Research Center, have been more pointed, providing evidence of Amnesty's systematic bias and reports based largely on claims by carefully selected "eyewitnesses" in Colombia, Gaza, and Lebanon.

As a result of revelations of other "do-good" organizations perpetrating hoaxes to vilify Israel and America, no one is above scrutiny.

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