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Post Documents Reveal How Israel Made Amnesty's Local Branch a Front for the Foreign Ministry in the 70s

The Israeli government funded the establishment and activity of the Amnesty International branch in Israel in the 1960s and 70s. Official documents reveal that the chairman of the organization was in constant contact with the Foreign Ministry and received instructions from it.

ed note–a lil’ something to keep in mind the next time some ‘international agency’ is grandstanding on some issue either pro or ‘con’ as far as Israel is concerned, because if the Jews had their hooks into orgs such as AmInt 50 years back, all can rest assured the number of other orgs ‘enjoying’ similar status has increased exponentially. Also note well how one Mr. Kaufman, who eventually became Chairman of the Board of the now much-vaunted B’Tselem organization (operating under the pretenses of opposing the occupation) also had regular meetings with the Israeli Foreign Ministry, and despite the manner by which he is depicted in this piece as being not quite as enthusiastic a spy as some of his counterparts, how nevertheless he was indeed working in collusion with the one ministry tasked with engaging in hasbara on a daily basis for the benefit of the Jewish state.

At the beginning of April 1970 Police Minister Shlomo Hillel stepped up to the Knesset podium. He updated the legislators on contacts between the government of Israel and Amnesty International concerning detainees imprisoned in Israel and torture. He concluded: “We can no long trust the goodwill and fairness of the Amnesty organization.”

What the minister reported to the Knesset was that for a number of years, Israel had tried to influence the Amnesty’s activity from within. Documents collected by the Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research and revealed here for the first time show that some of the people who headed Amnesty Israel from the end of the 1960s to the mid-1970s reported on their activity directly and in real time to the Foreign Ministry, consulted with its officials and requested instructions on how to proceed. Moreover, the Amnesty office was at the time supported by steady funding transferred to it through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: hundreds of Israeli pounds for flights abroad, per diem allowances, registration fees and dues payments to the organization’s headquarters.

The documents show that the most substantive connection was between the Foreign Ministry and Prof. Yoram Dinstein, who headed the branch between 1974 and 1976. Dinstein, an internationally renowned expert on the laws of war who later served as president of Tel Aviv University, had previously been a Foreign Ministry official and served as the Israeli consul in New York.

During his time as chairman of Amnesty Israel, years after he left the ministry, he regularly reported to his former colleagues on his activities and contacts with the international organization.

Amnesty International was founded in London in 1961 by British lawyer Peter Benenson, who, incensed over the arrests of Portuguese students, sta

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