Posted on 01/31/22
| News Source: JPost
An upcoming Amnesty International report labeling Israel as an apartheid state seeks to criminalize the existence of the Jewish state as the national homeland for the Jewish people, the Foreign Ministry stated on Monday.
"The report denies Israel's right to exist of the nation-state of the Jewish people," the Foreign Ministry said as it called on the British-based group to rescind its 211-page report.
Amnesty's "extreme language and distortion of the historical context were intended to demonize Israel and pour fuel into the engines of anti-Semitism," the ministry said.
It obtained a copy of the report due out on Tuesday morning entitled “Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime against Humanity.”
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid issued a video message in English, in which he charged that "if Israel wasn't a Jewish state, no one would dare make such a claim against it."