{"id":1378533,"date":"2022-03-15T08:06:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T12:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1378533"},"modified":"2022-03-15T12:20:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T16:20:20","slug":"israel-shouldnt-exist-as-a-jewish-state-amnesty-international-usa-director-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-shouldnt-exist-as-a-jewish-state-amnesty-international-usa-director-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel \u2018Shouldn\u2019t Exist As A Jewish State\u2019: Amnesty International USA Director: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisrael-shouldnt-exist-as-a-jewish-state-amnesty-international-usa-director-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1378533&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1233026143.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Speaking to the Women\u2019s National Democratic Club, Amnesty International USA Director Paul O\u2019Brien reportedly told the audience that Israel \u201cshouldn\u2019t exist as a Jewish state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, <em>Jewish Insider<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/jewishinsider.com\/2022\/03\/israel-shouldnt-exist-as-a-jewish-state-amnesty-usa-director-tells-democratic-group\/\">published a story<\/a>\u00a0about the event and reported various quotes attributed to O\u2019Brien. O\u2019Brien contended that there were quotes attributed to him that were not accurate. On Monday Jewish Insider (JI) <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishinsider.com\/2022\/03\/amnesty-usa-director-paul-obriens-remarks-to-the-womens-national-democratic-club\/\">released the full audio<\/a> of his lecture and his conversation with a JI reporter at the end of his speech. Some excerpts follow, including this exchange about whether Israel should exist as a Jewish\u00a0state:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>JI: Maybe Israel should exist, but it shouldn\u2019t exist necessarily as a Jewish state, which is what it is.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>O\u2019Brien: That\u2019s where I do feel I\u2019m coming from.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JI: So Israel shouldn\u2019t exist as a Jewish state but Israel is a Jewish state.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>O\u2019Brien: It shouldn\u2019t exist as a Jewish state.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Audience member: Then you don\u2019t believe it should exist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>O\u2019Brien: No, I think it should exist.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>O\u2019Brien pushed for moving the Overton Window in the U.S. Jewish community, reportedly saying, \u201cI think it needs to start first and foremost with the Jewish community. And it is starting first and foremost with the Jewish community. One in four Jewish Americans believes that there is apartheid in the region. \u2026 I think if the right conversations are held, if the right depth of understanding happens, this Overton Window is going to change and it won\u2019t just be by Jewish Americans, but they will be very important. It will also be by those who\u2019ve lived and experienced the wrong side of this system of human rights abuse, and it will be by their allies, and in that sense as a human rights organization dedicated to the law, and the evidence, Amnesty counts itself as an ally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not Amnesty\u2019s position, in fact we are opposed to the idea \u2014\u00a0and this, I think, is an existential part of the debate \u2014 that Israel should be preserved as a state for the Jewish people,\u201d O\u2019Brien stated, according to JI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if you exactly said it that way, but you said something about should there be a state for the Jewish people,\u201d he continued, JI reported. \u201cThat is, in essence, the 2018 law, that the State of Israel is preserved for Jews alone, and it should be theirs alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What the 2018 law <a href=\"https:\/\/main.knesset.gov.il\/EN\/activity\/Documents\/BasicLawsPDF\/BasicLawNationState.pdf\">actually stated<\/a> was this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The Land of Israel is the historical homeland of the Jewish people, in which the State of Israel was established. \u2026 The State of Israel is the nation state of the Jewish People, in which it realizes its natural, cultural, religious and historical right to self-determination. The exercise of the right to national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish People.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The State shall strive to ensure the safety of members of the Jewish People and of its citizens, who are in trouble and in captivity, due to their Jewishness or due to their citizenship. The State shall act, in the Diaspora, to preserve the ties between the State and members of the Jewish People. The State shall act to preserve the cultural, historical and religious heritage of the Jewish People among Jews in the Diaspora.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Attorney Daniel Bral <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.lmu.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1798&#038;context=ilr\">noted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Israel is no stranger to the scorn of the international community. In many respects, Israel is held to a different standard than other nations. In July 2018, that hypothesis was tested when Israel\u2019s Knesset passed The Basic Law: Israel \u2013 The Nation State of the Jewish People. Though largely symbolic, the Law declares, inter alia, \u201c[t]he exercise of the right to national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish People.\u201d Critics lambasted the clause for allegedly violating international law by rejecting non-Jews\u2019 right to exercise self-determination in the State of Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This note argues that the clause complies with international law because the Palestinians\u2019 right to national self-determination is linked to a future Palestinian state. The British Mandate, the Partition Plan, and international law have all recognized Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people, where Jews exercise their exclusive right to national self-determination. Palestinians and other non-Jews, like minority populations in other nations, may exercise the right to internal, not national, self-determination in the State of Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to the Women\u2019s National Democratic Club, Amnesty International USA Director Paul O\u2019Brien reportedly told the audience that Israel \u201cshouldn\u2019t exist as a Jewish state.\u201dLast Friday, Jewish Insider\u00a0published a story\u00a0about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}