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Human rights lawyer. Formerly @amnestyusa @humanrights1st
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Daphne Eviatar retweeted
Israel is arguably guilty of war crimes in Gaza, but to charge it with genocude dilutes the meaning of the term. It also makes it more difficult to have a serious conversation about what to do about the destructive things it is doing. richardhaass.substack.com/p/…
Daphne Eviatar retweeted
At Union Square pro Palestinian protesters interrupted the vigil for the October 7th massacre. They’re chanting that Mamdani and Lander are responsible for children dying and genocide.
Daphne Eviatar retweeted
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1… This essay on the true history of Zionism by Adam Kirsch is absolutely extraordinary - clarifying and powerful and obligatory reading - for Zionists, Jews who aren't sure and - especially - for anti-Zionists.
Daphne Eviatar retweeted
Workers from Apex Labor Solutions bravely spoke out against their exploitation on affordable housing construction projects. The Construction Justice Act will set a new minimum standard wage package of $40 per hour on some of these projects across our city for all workers.
#CJA
Daphne Eviatar retweeted
I'm a journalist. And I happen to be Jewish. On Yom Kippur I went to a synagogue service in Toronto and was met by protesters trying to taunt and intimidate me from entering the building. 1/5
Speaking of betrayal of principles, Amnesty didn’t support the boycott of South African sports teams during apartheid because that wasn’t considered part of its mandate. That all changed when it came to Israel.
⚽Israel’s participation in the UEFA Nations League is a betrayal
Despite clear evidence that Israel’s football association continues to support illegal settlements, Israel's men’s football team will participate in the UEFA Nations League this autumn. amn.st/6017BGdzID
Does Amnesty encourage the suspension of any other countries’ football associations? Just asking.
UEFA and FIFA should have suspended the Israel Football Association long ago, for its refusal to exclude clubs based in illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
bit.ly/4iHtmSX
Daphne Eviatar retweeted
Incompetence is letting measles, a disease that was declared eliminated in 2000, reemerge.
Incompetence is spending your time promoting outright lies instead of urging people to get a vaccination that would protect them against this deadly disease.
Incompetence is denying the tragedy of four measles-associated deaths in Pennsylvania.
Incompetence is standing right behind you, Mr. President.
Daphne Eviatar retweeted
Motaz Azaiza is forcing a reckoning the “pro‑Palestine” movement never anticipated. Because he’s celebrated by activists, politicians, and journalists and can’t be smeared as a “Zionist shill,” his admission carries weight: Gaza’s journalism space functioned under Hamas’s control, and any reporter who deviated from the group’s narrative risked “disappearing behind the sun.” That single truth reshapes how we understand the stories pushed out of Gaza since October 7 and explains why dissent against Hamas’s rule never surfaced publicly. Western journalists and outsiders, unaware of this coercive ecosystem, ended up amplifying Hamas’s information warfare rather than scrutinizing it.
Daphne Eviatar retweeted
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
Daphne Eviatar retweeted
An Anthropic researcher is quitting the artificial-intelligence industry over fears that the lab and its competitors are racing to build systems that could spiral out of control and destroy humanity. on.wsj.com/4hhAoMR
I just signed a @theactionnet petition: NYC Noise: Lower the volume of sirens in NYC. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
Daphne Eviatar retweeted
In an op-ed for The New York Times, I argue that saving Gaza & its Palestinian people requires resisting Hamas, weaving in personal themes, addressing issues with the Left & "pro-Palestine" movement & proposing a vision for Gaza's future Transformation.
nytimes.com/2026/09/04/opini…
Daphne Eviatar retweeted
BREAKING: The IDF confirmed that the the death of Hind Rajab and her family are being further investigated to determine if the mistakes made in the chaos of war passed the threshold into criminal acts.
This heartbreaking story should never have happened at all. That’s the nature of wars, they’re ugly, tragic and should never happen.
I am glad Israel is fully investigating what went wrong so it isn’t repeated.
Daphne Eviatar retweeted
The harsh reality that human rights & humanitarian NGOs have been ideologically captured—and urgently demand external scrutiny—is reaching the mainstream. My op-ed on @amnesty vs @jk_rowling, and the wider problem it exposes, in @thetimes today. Change is coming.
@amnesty @hrw @msf @ICRC @Greenpeace @PlanGlobal @SavetheChildren @unicef @mercycorps
thetimes.com/comment/columni…
Daphne Eviatar retweeted
Perfect example of media's uncritical amplification of human rights NGOs. The description of Abu Safiya as a mere "doctor," ignoring his Hamas links, is straight from @amnesty-currently running a campaign on his behalf. Its stated principles, including of "right to life," "neutrality," & "universalism" did not extend in 2+ yrs to campaigning on behalf of the 251 people whom Hamas kidnapped from their homes & a music festival, and held captive in Gaza. amnesty.org/en/petition/rele…
This is standard procedure for Amnesty. They don’t have evidence to prove the other side’s claims, so they claim the other side is lying. As opposed to just saying “we don’t know.” B/c “we don’t know” wouldn’t support their genocide story.
🧵Amnesty's Gaza "genocide" report collapses. @amnesty relies on 15 airstrike cases as evidence Israel targeted ONLY civilians, claiming each had no "military objective." But FIVE are now confirmed to have targeted Hamas or PIJ commanders. The "evidence" is fake. Details: 1/
Daphne Eviatar retweeted
Conclusion:
Amnesty's finding that these 15 cases were deliberate attacks on civilians rests on investigations that have now proven remarkably unreliable. Its fieldworkers visited the sites, photographed rubble and weapon fragments, searched for signs of military targets, and its researchers interviewed 74 survivors, witnesses and relatives. Amnesty then declared that it found no evidence of a military objective and that EVERYONE killed in all 15 strikes was a civilian.
But how could an after-the-fact investigation possibly establish what Israeli intelligence knew or whom a strike was targeting? And how credible is a methodology that effectively depends on people in Gaza, who are instructed to hide combatant status, telling Amnesty, "Yes, a PIJ battalion commander was staying here. Israel sure hit the right place”?
The results speak for themselves and shatter Amnesty’s report. Based on only the roughly 2,000+ combatants whose identities and affiliations have subsequently been revealed by the group’s themselves (so no “Israel says so evidence”), 5 of Amnesty's 15 handpicked cases already include commanders and other combatants it glaringly failed to identify. That is one-third of the very strikes Amnesty selected as evidence of civilian targeting.
This evidence demolishes the evidentiary logic Amnesty used to infer that these strikes lacked military objectives and then wield them as evidence of genocide. When such a large share of your showcase cases changes materially once just a small amount of information unavailable or ignored by your investigators emerges, the problem isn't a few incidental errors. The methodology fails to support the sweeping conclusions Amnesty built upon it and Amnesty should issue updates and retractions based on the new evidence.
Note: All cases can be found in Amnesty's report titled "YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE SUBHUMAN’
ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE AGAINST PALESTINIANS IN GAZA" on page 107.
Daphne Eviatar retweeted
On 31 July, Amnesty International publicly apologised for publishing an “anti-rights” briefing at the heart of a weeks-long public clash with author J.K. Rowling. The document, “A Growing Threat: The Anti-Rights Movement in the UK,” purported to map a nationwide “anti-rights ecosystem” that included Beira’s Place, the Edinburgh sexual-violence support service established by Rowling in 2022. Transgender-rights activists have long criticised the charity for excluding transgender women from its services.
Rowling was having none of it, and she launched a scathing public attack on an NGO that she said has “become a tyrant that persecutes those who don’t espouse what it decrees acceptable beliefs.” She invited any of the groups named on what she called Amnesty’s “blacklist” to apply to the J.K. Rowling Women’s Fund for legal support. Amnesty quickly realised that it had picked the wrong fight. Its earlier, carefully calibrated expression of “regret” collapsed into a full mea culpa; it withdrew the briefing. The document had been uploaded by mistake, the organisation said, bypassing its established and normally rigorous internal-review processes. An internal investigation was announced, to be followed by an independent external review.
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