Amnesty International: The Devil is in the Details

Mon, Jun 4, 2007 at 8:43:28 am PDT

On Amnesty International’s page for their latest Israel-bashing, Palestinian-excusing report, they couldn’t even be bothered to spell “Israel” correctly: Amnesty International - Enduring occupation - Palestinians under siege in the West Bank.

(Hat tip: Meryl Yourish.)

UPDATE at 6/4/07 9:06:01 am:

From this seemingly trivial spelling error we segue into a much less trivial article on AI’s Communist origins, by Claudio Veliz (who was there): The True Genesis of Amnesty International.

THE HIGH TIDE of the Cold War concealed vastly more than fanciful antics by KGB agents, and it is unlikely that we will ever know how many quiet initiatives originally designed to divide, influence, distract or, ultimately, to overcome resistance to the communist onslaught escaped detection at the time and will remain hidden forever. Some probably failed ingloriously, and most of those that succeeded at first were later crushed under the rubble of the Berlin Wall, but a few survived the Soviet debacle and went on to prosper in its aftermath, and of these, Amnesty Inter-national must be counted among those that most convincingly went on to flourish after managing the difficult transition with suitable adroitness. Only three years have passed since 2004 when the fiftieth birthday of its governing idea should have been celebrated and it is meet and just, albeit belatedly, to throw light on its true origins and rescue from obscurity the name of its real begetter.