Amnesty Int'l wants Iran strike to be investigated as a war crime

On March 1, the Iranian regime lit another match and civilians paid the price.

Ballistic missiles slammed into the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, killing nine and wounding at least 46 in the Ramat Lehi neighborhood. Now, Amnesty International is finally saying what’s been obvious: this needs to be investigated as a war crime.

After combing through social media footage, images, and on-the-ground digital evidence, Amnesty concluded the damage tells a clear story. The destruction of the Tiferet Israel synagogue, along with a bomb shelter beneath it, and the strike trajectory point squarely to ballistic missile use. Not surprisingly,  investigators found no military targets anywhere near the impact zone. The closest Israeli base was more than two miles away.

In other words, this wasn’t collateral damage. It looks deliberate because it was, because this was not an isolated incident.

Amnesty, along with media and humanitarian groups, says Iran has also been deploying cluster munitions, indiscriminate weapons that scatter explosives over wide areas and are banned under international law for good reason.

This escalation didn’t come out of nowhere. The March 1 strike followed joint U.S.-Israeli operations against Iran on February 28, setting off a regional chain reaction. What started as targeted strikes has metastasized into something far bigger, with attacks now hitting Qatar, Lebanon, the UAE, and beyond.

Meanwhile, the human toll keeps climbing and the stories are brutal.

“After I worked up the courage to go, I saw the synagogue was completely destroyed, and the [bomb] shelter was split open. The shelter wasn’t safe. It did not provide protection,” Rabbi Yitzak Biton told Amnesty International, “I lost not one, not two, but three children.”

That’s not just a statistic, that’s the reality on the ground.

And the numbers are staggering. Amnesty estimates the conflict has killed 1,900 people in Iran, more than 1,116 in Lebanon, and at least 16 in Israel.

This is a widening war with civilians caught in the blast radius.

And it's clear, the Iranian people, not the regime, welcome Israel's and the USA's help in removing the terrorist regime from their country.

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Report Alleges that Harvard University Maintains Ties to Terror Proxy Groups

Harvard has gone from Ivy League to ideological swamp, and a new report from NGO Monitor is pulling no punches. Titled “Advocacy NGOs in Academic Frameworks: Harvard University Case Study,” this “preliminary” bombshell lays bare how the crimson elite are cozying up to anti-Zionist NGOs that might as well be printing propaganda for terrorist groups like the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). 

Yes, that PFLP, [try saying that 3 times fast] an internationally designated terrorist group. 

Harvard’s academic centers, including the prestigious Harvard Law School, are apparently taking cues from groups like Al-Haq and Addameer, which Israel calls out as PFLP proxies. These NGOs are warping research and campus culture into a full-on anti-Zionist tilt.

Professor Gerald Steinberg, who co-authored the report with Dr. Adi Schwartz, isn’t mincing words: “The report demonstrates the major contribution from prominent advocacy NGOs to the atmosphere of propaganda and anti-Semitism at Harvard, particularly through frameworks claiming human rights agendas.” 

He’s sounding the alarm on “close cooperation” between these NGOs and Harvard’s academic programs, warning that this blurring of scholarship and activism is a five-alarm fire for academic integrity. Oh, and he’s got a kicker: “In this context, it is important to highlight the urgent need for transparency regarding funding for the NGOs and these Harvard academic frameworks.” 

Take the Harvard François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (FXB). Until recently, it was partnered with a West Bank institution and leans hard on anti-Zionist players like Amnesty International for its “research.” 

This crew’s obsessed with Gaza, dedicating 40% of its public events to the topic. Then there’s FXB director Mary T. Bassett, who the report calls out as a problem child. Steinberg and Schwartz write, “A review of her publication record reflects the absence of any expertise on health issues in conflict zones, in general, or regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular.” Yet, she’s out here pushing an anti-Israel agenda, like her since-deleted FXB website post just one week after Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, slaughter, moaning about “the potential genocide facing civilians in Gaza.” 

Yes, she was worried the, you know, Joooze! would retaliate after Hamas slaughtered 1,200 innocent Israelis, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 251 more, most of whom were raped, beaten, starved and many murdered in captivity.

Funny how genocide works when it comes to Gazans: their population increased since 1948 going from around 60 to 80 thousand back then to around 2.1 million this year. Somehow Gazan genocide works in reverse.

Over at Harvard Law’s International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC), it’s no better. They’re feeding research to a U.N. commission accused of anti-Semitic bias and employing instructors with ties to Amnesty International, which legal experts and Israeli officials slam for peddling “anti-Semitic blood libels.” 

The clinic’s basically a pipeline for NGO advocacy, with the report noting, “The clinic prides itself on finding jobs for its alumni at a variety of NGOs around the globe.” Translation: it’s a factory for churning out anti-Zionist foot soldiers.

This all comes as Harvard’s grappling with its reputation as a hotbed of anti-Semitism dressed up in progressive piety. President Trump didn’t hold back last month, blasting on Truth Social: “Harvard is an Anti-Semitic, Far Left Institute, as are numerous others, with students being accepted from all over the World that want to rip our Country apart.” 

He called it a “Liberal mess” and a “threat to democracy.” 

Harvard’s interim president Alan Garber tried to clean up the mess in April with a 300-page report on campus anti-Semitism, complete with an apology for failing Jewish students post-Oct. 7. “I am sorry for the moments when we failed to meet the high expectations we rightfully set for our community,” Garber said, admitting the university didn’t protect Jews like other minorities. He promised to make Harvard a place “where ideas are welcomed, entertained, and contested in the spirt of seeking truth; where argument proceeds without sacrificing dignity; and where mutual respect is the norm.” 

Noble words, but with NGOs like Al-Haq and Addameer pulling strings, good luck with that.

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Look, Harvard’s not just a school—it’s a cultural juggernaut. When it’s this deep in bed with groups tied to terrorist proxies, it’s not just a campus problem; it’s a national one. Time to shine a light on this mess before it festers further and smelly stuff bubbles up to the top.

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Taliban must have forgotten to mention they killed 13 ethnic Hazara people

That is not an oversized COVID mask

Nobody knows if it was an oversight or if the Taliban simply forgot to mention that back in August, they murdered 13 ethnic Hazara innocents including a teenage girl, according to Amnesty International.

The group said they discovered evidence the people were massacred in Daykundi province in August. But knowing how the Taliban is turning over a new IED leaf, it's likely they simply forgot to mention it and are probably really sorry things got out of hand.

Nine of the victims were former government soldiers who had surrendered to the Taliban, who may have thought their hands in the air was a elusive karate move so they shot them. Maybe, however, like Amnesty International believes, it was a blatant war crime.

Of course, the kinder, gentler Taliban said that this was only one part of the story and we aren't hearing the whole deal. It's rumored that the teenage girl didn't have her ankles and face covered, so under Taliban tradition, they shot her dead because her lack of modesty was irreligious and was an insult to Islam. Whatever the case, we can rest assured the Biden administration will discuss it with the Taliban leadership.

The Hazara community is Afghanistan's third largest ethnic group. They mainly practice Shia Islam and have faced long-term discrimination and persecution in predominantly Sunni Afghanistan and Pakistan because they have a different religious belief. But at least both groups can agree that Christians and Jews are derived from apes and pigs and that's a starting point for future discussions. 

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Since the softer, gentler better hygienic Taliban has taken power, this is the second such incident in which they've been accused of killing Hazaras.

In this latest massacre, two of the dead were civilians; the girl was only 17-years-old and was shot when the Taliban opened fire at a group of soldier's families as they ran for their lives.

"These cold-blooded executions are further proof that the Taliban are committing the same horrific abuses they were notorious for during their previous rule of Afghanistan," said Agnès Callamard, secretary-general of Amnesty International. 

Who would have thought that after President Biden handed them the country?

"The Taliban say they are not targeting former employees of the previous government, but these killings contradict such claims," she said, like totally surprised.

The Taliban's interior ministry spokes terrorist, Qari Saeed Khosti told the BBC: "This report is one sided and we call on all international organizations to come and conduct a proper investigation in the field.

"This is not an acceptable conclusion and is free of transparency. If you do not believe me, I will kill you! I will kill you! Bastard man."

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Iran murdered 36 prisoners over COVID-19 protest

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Murderous security forces for the Islamic Republic of Iran killed 36 prisoners who protested for their safety with the spread of COVID-19 [aka Chinese Communist Wuhan Wet Market Lab Coronavirus]. 

The human rights organization [except when it involves Israel] Amnesty International tweeted on Thursday:

“We have learned that around 36 prisoners in #Iran are feared to have been killed by security forces after use of lethal force to control protests over #COVID19 safety fears. It is abhorrent that Iran's authorities have again resorted to killing people to silence their concerns.”

--Amnesty International (@amnesty) 

In late March, Amnesty urged the head of the Iranian judiciary to release all political prisoners and human rights defenders held in its vast penal system, as reported then by the Jerusalem Post.

The organization, based in London, requested in writing to Iran's judicial chief Ebrahim Raisi to "immediately and unconditionally release all prisoners of conscience, including human rights defenders and those detained for peacefully taking part in the November 2019 and January 2020 protests."

In addition, Amnesty pressed Raisi “to urgently consider releasing other prisoners – especially pre-trial detainees and those who may be more at risk from the virus – and take necessary measures to protect the health of all prisoners, including equal access to testing.”

The letter stated the human rights organization is “concerned that hundreds of prisoners of conscience remain jailed, including human rights defenders, peaceful protesters and others detained solely for peacefully expressing their rights to freedom of expression, association and/or assembly. They should not be in detention in the first place. More generally, I am also concerned about the health of all prisoners in Iran.”

Well, worry no more. They're dead. That is how Iran operates. And American apologists for Iran, such as Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) have asked the United States to put an end to the sanctions we have on those evil scumwafers.

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Iran flogs, executes two teen rapists

Two teens, both age 17, were convicted rapists when they were 15-years-old and spent two years in an Iranian prison.

Cousins Mehdi Sohrabifar and Amin Sedaghat, were flogged then executed in Adelabad prison on April 25. Amnesty International is claiming the pair endured “unfair trials” that doomed them.

Amnesty said the pair were both brutally beaten while in police detention and were barred from speaking with their lawyer.

Making matters worse, the two teens, their families and their lawyers had no idea they would be executed until the deed was done, but the day prior to their beatings and murders, their families were allowed to visit them and were given no explanation as to why.

International human rights laws typically frown on executing anyone under the age of 18 at the time crimes were committed. And as much as rape is repugnant and should call for the death penalty, the brains of these kids weren't even fully developed when they committed the atrocity.

“The Iranian authorities have once again proved that they are sickeningly prepared to put children to death, in flagrant disregard of international law,” Amnesty International spokesman Philip Luther told the Daily Mail.

“It seems they cruelly kept these two boys in the dark about their death sentences for two years, flogged them in the final moments of their lives and then carried out their executions in secret.”

Luther added: “We have identified a trend in which Iran’s authorities are carrying out executions of juvenile offenders in secret and without giving advance notice to the families, seemingly in a deliberate attempt to avoid global outrage.”

Iran has executed at least 97 people who were under the age of 18 at the time of their crimes between 1990 and 2018, Amnesty said.

Obviously, the Iranians involved in these executions have a sick and sadistic character and are no better than the people they execute.





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Over 13,000 hanged at Syrian prison

Beirut -- At least 13,000 people have been executed in mass hangings at a prison north of Damascus. It's known to detainees as the "slaughterhouse" Amnesty International (AI) said.

AI released a report detailing the period from 2015, when the uprising began, saying that groups of 20 to 50 people were hanged at Saydnaya Prison. This went on several times a week in the middle of the night and were authorized by senior government officials, including deputies of President and chinless leader Bashar Assad.

"The horrors depicted in this report reveal a hidden, monstrous campaign, authorized at the highest levels of the Syrian government, aimed at crushing any form of dissent within the Syrian population," said Lynn Maalouf, deputy director for research at AI's regional office in Beirut.

Maalouf told the Associated Press the prisoners were only informed of their death sentence "a few minutes before the noose is tied around their neck."

"These executions take place after a sham trial that lasts over a minute or two minutes, but they are authorized by the highest levels of authority," including the Grand Mufti, and defense minister, she said.

AI based its findings on interviews with 31 former detainees and over 50 officials, including prison guards and judges.

In a report released last year, AI documented over 17,000 deaths from torture and abuse in prisons across Syria.

Syrian protests in 2011 led to the civil war that killed about 400,000 people.

Amnesty called on the Syrian government to cease extrajudicial killings and torture in Saydnaya, but Assad just laughs at them and does what he wants to do with Russia's blessings.


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