Israel slams Amnesty ‘apartheid’ report, urges group to withhold release

Israel's overseas ministry criticized an upcoming report from Amnesty Worldwide UK as 'antisemitic.'
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Israel’s overseas ministry on Monday slammed an upcoming report by Amnesty Worldwide UK accusing the nation of apartheid — claiming the human rights group was fueling antisemitism.

“Amnesty’s report successfully serves as a inexperienced gentle … to hurt not solely Israel, however Jews world wide,” a spokesman for the overseas ministry mentioned in a press release obtained by The Occasions of Israel.

“Its extremist language and distortion of historic context have been designed to demonize Israel and pour gas onto the hearth of antisemitism.”

The ministry urged Amnesty to with out releasing the report, which is scheduled to be offered Tuesday at 11 a.m. native time throughout a press convention in a Jerusalem lodge, in keeping with the web newspaper.

Israeli Overseas Minister Yair Lapid known as the Amnesty report “delusional.”

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Titled “Israel’s Apartheid Towards Palestinians: Merciless System of Domination and Crime Towards Humanity,” the report paperwork alleged crimes dedicated by Israel in opposition to Palestinians.

Israel Overseas Minister Yair Lapid launched his personal assertion blasting the group and the report.

Amnesty UK “isn’t a human rights group, however simply one other radical group which echoes propaganda with out severely checking the details,” Lapid mentioned.

“As an alternative of searching for the reality, Amnesty echoes the identical lies shared by terrorist organizations.”

Lapid mentioned the accusations within the report are “delusional and disconnected from actuality.”