Amnesty International To Run Firebomb-Making Seminars Across US

Amnesty chose the United states because the human rights situation there is far more urgent and troubling than in, for example, Sudan, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Russia, Yemen, China, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Somalia, Venezuela,  Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon. Ukraine, Egypt, Turkey…

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New York, October 6 – Building on its engagement with Palestinian activist Bassem Tamimi, political rights NGO Amnesty International announced plans today to hire Palestinians to train Americans in the production and use of Molotov cocktails and other improvised weapons.

Amnesty brought the activist to make a presentation to a third-grade class in a New York suburb last week, at which he advanced a propaganda-laden agenda painting Israel as evil and whitewashing Palestinian crimes. Tamimi and Amnesty have worked together for years, with the former either actively encouraging or turning a blind eye toward the latter’s support for violence despite claiming that he calls for nonviolent resistance of Israeli occupation. The success of that school presentation has prompted the organization to expand Tamimi’s speaking schedule and subject matter to include educating more Americans in the justification for, and application of, violent nonviolence as a tool of legitimate political expression.

C. Noeyville, a spokesman for Amnesty, told reporters that the events in Baltimore, Ferguson, New York, and elsewhere over the last two years demonstrate Americans’ need for a nonviolent approach to political and social protest that emulates the Palestinian use of explosives, deadly rocks, stabbing, and vehicular homicide. “Mr. Tamimi’s courageous adherence to nonviolence through his enthusiastic support online and in other media for the actions of Palestinians who kill Jews, and through his exploitation of his children to contrive situations that make IDF soldiers look bad, is a model for marginalized groups everywhere,” said Noeville. “Our aim is to spread the grassroots culture of nonviolent violent protest to help the disenfranchised and the politically oppressed all over assert their rights.”

Noeyville said the organization chose the United states because the human rights situation there is far more urgent and troubling than in, for example, Sudan, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Russia, Yemen, China, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Somalia, Venezuela,  Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon. Ukraine, Egypt, Turkey, Bahrain, North Korea, Congo, Nigeria, Western Sahara, Thailand, Myanmar, or Belarus, among others.

In addition to Tamimi, Amnesty intends to hire experts on the specific methods to deliver the training sessions, but some of the candidates might face trouble from US authorities over their alleged connections to so-called terrorist organizations. “This is exactly the sort of political repression that we aim to combat,” noted Noeyville, adding that the designation of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations by the State Department completely ignored the legitimate function these organizations serve in the region. “Without our intrepid allies in Gaza, for example, there would be precious few activists there to studiously ignore the exploitation of children and the deliberate placement of military personnel among civilians,” he said.

Tamimi told reporters he had anticipated presiding over the training of Americans in the production of improvised firearms, but that lax American gun laws made that program component unnecessary.