(Jewish Group) Amnesty USA chief to lawmakers who criticized him: 'I regret' speaking for US Jews...

[Behind the Aegis]

Amnesty USA chief to lawmakers who criticized him: ‘I regret’ speaking for US Jews about Israel

The director of Amnesty International’s U.S. branch apologized to Jewish lawmakers for claiming to speak on behalf of American Jews.

“I regret representing the views of the Jewish people,” Paul O’Brien said in a March 25 letter, first reported by Jewish Insider, to all 25 Jewish Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, who had joined to condemn his remarks at a Washington D.C. luncheon in which he rejected polling that showed the vast majority of U.S. Jews are pro-Israel.

“What I should have said,” he added, “is that my understanding from having visited Israel often and listened to many Jewish American and Israeli human rights activists is that I share a commitment to human rights and social justice for all with Jewish Americans and Israelis.”

The Jewish Democrats, in a rare show of unity on Israel, last month rebuked O’Brien for his comments about Israel in which he said, “My gut tells me that what Jewish people in this country want is to know that there’s a sanctuary that is a safe and sustainable place that the Jews, the Jewish people can call home.”

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What a fucking asshole, but oh so typical of certain 'slapiners of the left.

[madaboutharry]

1. He also reportedly had this to say:

WASHINGTON — An Amnesty International official reportedly said that the organization is opposed to Israel continuing to exist as a Jewish state.

Paul O’Brien, the human rights monitor’s US director, later said his comments were taken out of context.

“We are opposed to the idea — and this, I think, is an existential part of the debate — that Israel should be preserved as a state for the Jewish people,” O’Brien reportedly said in a luncheon with the Women’s National Democratic Club in Washington.

It is kind of sad that it doesn't come as a surprise that people in these positions hold these views. I don't believe his walk back.

Politics is like a circle, if you go far enough to the left you will meet up with the far right.