Even by the usual standards of NGO methodological mutton dressed up as lamb, Amnesty International’s newly released report on October 7 is appalling, and what it “concludes” at this point in its sorry race to the ideological bottom is worth nothing. I should know: as ex-senior editor at Human Rights Watch, I’ve read and edited hundreds of these documents.

More than two years after the attacks, and a full year after it “concluded” that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty has for the first time found that the actions of “members of Palestinian armed groups” during and following the October 7, 2023, attack that sparked the war in Gaza constitute crimes against humanity.

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