Amnesty and the Modern-Day Inquisition Against Israel

In January, Israel's Foreign Ministry circulated a report warning that 2022 would likely be the year Israel is officially saddled with the label of "apartheid state." Amnesty International published a study this month that concludes Israel maintains an apartheid system to rule over and suppress "Palestinians." The report set off criticisms from Israel and its allies worldwide. The United Nations and the media are doing their part to unfairly single out the Jewish state for unjust condemnation as an "apartheid regime" in what amounts to a modern-day inquisition against Israel.

A few of the Amnesty allegations are: 1) Israeli authorities impose a system of domination and oppression against the Palestinian people in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories and against Palestinian refugees; 2) Amnesty Identifies all Arabs in Israel and Palestinian-ruled areas as "Palestinians" and then claims Israel practices apartheid against them all; 3) Alleges that Israel was born in sin because it was created in 1948 to be a "Jewish state" and has imposed measures ever since to maintain that Jewish majority. This totally ignores the fact that the United Nations itself approved a partition plan for creating a Jewish-majority and an Arab-majority state side by side in the area of Mandate Palestine, which was being vacated by the British at the time.

It is amazing that allegations that are made go against historically documented agreements and lack concern for Israel to defend itself against the constant threat of Palestinian terrorism.

There is some hope in sight! According to AIPAC, this past weekend, foreign ministers from the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Egypt were in Israel meeting with Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid. Over the past month, AIPAC had lobbied senators to sign a bipartisan letter to combat anti-Israel discrimination at the U.N. More than 2/3 of the Senate signed and sent that letter to Secretary Blinken, urging the Biden administration to stop the U.N.'s "discriminatory and unwarranted treatment of Israel," including the new anti-Israel "Commission of Inquiry."

We hope to soon have further updates as we continue to pray that the US/Israel relationship will remain strong and secure so that Israel can further realize the dream of living in peace with its regional partners.

(Materials gathered for this article were from the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem and AIPAC.)