Amnesty International Can’t Handle the Truth About Hamas
Charles Lane is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a columnist for The Free Press. For months, Amnesty International, self-proclaimed champion of human rights and among the world’s most influential and best-funded nonprofits, has been blasting Israel for alleged war crimes in Gaza, while hesitating to divulge full results of its investigation into the bloody event that triggered that war: Hamas’s atrocities in Israel on October 7, 2023. Commissioned in early 2024, and mostly completed well over a year ago, Amnesty’s October 7 report finally came out on Thursday—two years, two months, and five days since Hamas and other Gaza-based terrorist groups massacred some 1,200 people in southern Israel, and one year after Amnesty accused Israel of genocide in a separate report. As The Free Press reported exclusively in September, Amnesty repeatedly missed target dates for publication without explanation. It balked most recently in late summer of 2025 after inter
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