"#Amnesty #Israel had skilled Palestinian staff and board members ready to contribute. It wasn’t because the Palestinians in Amnesty Israel have no legal expertise. It’s because a common pattern in progressive Israeli spaces is that #Palestinians can provide labor, translation, lived experience and trauma to feed the analysis of Israeli Jews, but cannot be equal partners who get to do the analysis side by side and set the agenda together.”
https://forward.com/opinion/681370/why-i-resigned-as-chairman-of-amnesty-israel/
https://forward.com/opinion/681370/why-i-resigned-as-chairman-of-amnesty-israel/
Israeli human rights groups need to have Palestinian representation – The Forward
Amnesty Israel cannot claim to defend human rights in israel without having adequate Palestinian representation among its leadership.The Forward