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

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.