
Commissioned in early 2024, and mostly completed well over a year ago, Amnesty International’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.
The real story here is the internal machinations at Amnesty that caused the delays. Thursday’s report sheds little light on that.
In confidential talking points sent to the organization’s spokespeople, Amnesty staff are instructed to tell reporters that the October 7 report was mostly complete in August but needed “to go through a rigorous quality assurance process” including vetting by Secretary General Agnès Callamard and other senior leadership. This “process” didn’t end until “the weeks prior to publication.”
Additional internal communications from the months preceding the report’s release tell a different story.
By August of this year, Amnesty had decided that the October 7 report was ready to publish on September 9. As word of the scheduled release spread through the organization, staffers and some section leaders began to call for a delay or cancellation.
Amnesty scrapped the September 9 launch and rescheduled it for September 29. On September 22, another email informed Amnesty insiders that the report was delayed indefinitely.
“The silence of Amnesty, for more than two years, about the victims of Hamas and other Palestinian militants was deafening,” said Molly Malekar, the former executive director of Amnesty International Israel before the international group suspended it for opposing accusations of genocide. “Amnesty surrendered to the populist pro-Hamas movement instead of taking a leadership role and insisting on universalism.”
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