Here are the number of retweets for recent Amnesty International tweets from their @AmnestyOnline account:
-Ireland’s ban on abortion violates human rights – ground-breaking UN ruling – 174
-I fled war in Syria, was attacked in #Germany: Report on failure to tackle hate crime rise – 127
-GOOD NEWS! Torture survivor Yecenia Armenta now free in Mexico – ends 4 years of injustice – 113
-Bahrain shatters façade of reform with persecution of opposition leader @ariel_plotkin oped – 109
-UN: Shameful pandering to Saudi Arabia over children killed in Yemen conflict – 154
-Nowhere safe: Refugee women on the Greek islands live in constant fear – 60
-Malawi: Killing spree of people with albinism fuelled by ritual practices/police failures – 260
-Two Syrian refugees are first at risk of forced return to Turkey under #EUTurkeyDeal: Tell @imouzalas to STOP this! – 124
-Evidence counters UK claims that no British-made cluster munitions used in recent Yemen war – 219
It is very clear that AmnestyOnline can count over a hundred of its followers to pretty consistently retweet nearly every tweet of theirs, no matter how obscure the topic.
With one exception.
Amnesty released a fairly strong statement about the Tel Aviv bombing (although it also couldn’t stop itself from warning against Israel engaging in “collective punishment.” How many people retweeted that statement from this account since yesterday?
Israel/OPT: Tel Aviv attack displays total disdain for human life – 37 retweets
Amnesty International’s Twitter followers apparently care far less about Jews being murdered than any other human rights issue on Earth.
This is not the first time that Amnesty’s followers showed a marked indifference to dead Jews. Last November Amnesty tweeted a similar message against killing Israelis, and it received only 46 retweets. Yet a general anti-Israel tweet in the midst of the knife attacks weeks earlier received nearly triple that amount.
During the Gaza war, an Amnesty tweet against the US providing Israel with fuel gathered over 1500 retweets. The daily tweets that Amnesty did last summer on events that happened in Gaza a year earlier routinely gathered 100-200 retweets.
The pattern is consistent: Not only does Amnesty tweet far more against Israel than against people trying to kill Israelis, but its fans don’t give a damn about dead Israelis the few times that Amnesty decides to pretend to be “even handed” and condemn the terrorists.
It is hard to escape the conclusion that most of Amnesty International’s active online fans either don’t care about dead Jews or that they feel that slaughtering Israeli civilians is justified and should not be condemned as much as, say, Bahrain persecuting an opposition leader.
(AmnestyUSA’s fans does not show the same overt bias as its international Twitter account followers do, the AmnestyUSA tweet about the attacks garnered 148 retweets, which is about average for that account.)
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