B'Tselem is an outfit set up by Jews to expose evil done by Jews in Palestine, in the Stolen Land. Not all of them are evil - or am I being insufficiently cynical? The management are largely lawyers and journalists. Another similar group is Breaking The Silence. Jews like claiming that their army goes in for Purity of Arms. Some of them might even be stupid enough believe it.
Jews even allege that they have a moral obligation to make the world a better place; they call it Tikkun Olam. This lot seem to believe it.
B'Tselem ex Wiki
B'Tselem (Hebrew: "in the image of [God]") is an independent non-profit organization whose stated goals are to document human rights violations in the occupied territories, combat denial and help to create a human rights culture in Israel.[1] Its executive director is Hagai El-Ad.[2] B'Tselem also maintains a branch of the organization in Washington, D.C., called B'Tselem USA.B'Tselem was founded in 1989, during the First Intifada, by Israeli academics and members of civil rights and leftist organizations.[3] B'Tselem's funding comes from private individuals (both Israeli and foreign), together with European and North American foundations focusing on human rights.[1]
B'Tselem has published over a hundred reports on various issues such as torture, fatal shootings by security forces, restrictions on movement, expropriation of land and discrimination in planning and building in East Jerusalem, administrative detention, house demolitions, violence by Israeli settlers and Palestinians, and Israeli operations in the occupied territories.
In December 1989, B'Tselem shared the Carter-Menil Human Rights Prize with the Palestinian group, Al-Haq.[4][5] B'Tselem has been harshly criticized by Israeli nationalists. In 2011, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman charged the group with abetting terrorism and weakening Israel's defense forces.[6] .........................
Board members
B'Tselem board members are:[43]
- Co-chairs:
- David Kretzmer, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law and School of Public Policy, Hebrew University.
- Gila Svirsky, Co-founder of Coalition of Women for a Just Peace.
- Neta Amar: Lawyer, Legal Advisor for IHL Project, Diakonia and Staff Attorney for Rabbis for Human Rights.
- Anat Biletzki: Professor of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University.
- Orna Ben-Naftaly: Head of the Law and Culture Division and the International Law Division, the Law School, the College of Management Academic Studies.
- Menachem Fisch: Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, Tel-Aviv University and Senior Fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute.
- Tamar Hermann: Dean of Academic Studies, the Open University of Israel, and Senior Research Fellow, the Israel Democracy Institute.
- Amnon Kapeliouk: Journalist, Le Monde diplomatique (Haaretz named Kapeliouk as one of the founders of B'Tselem).[44]
- Peretz Kidron: Journalist and Translator.
- Menachem Klein: Lecturer in Political Science, Bar Ilan University.
- Victor Lederfarb: Financial Administrator, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.
- David Neuhaus: Jesuit Priest, Reverend, Lecturer in Religious Studies at Bethlehem University and Seminary of the Holy Land in Beit Jala.
- Danny Rubinstein: Journalist, Haaretz Newspaper.
- Alla Shainskaya: Senior Staff Scientist, Weizmann Institute of Science.
- Ronny Talmor: Author and editor.
- Oren Yiftachel: professor of political geography and urban planning, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
- Rayef Zreik: Co-founder of Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University.
Representative publications
- The Gaza Strip: One Big Prison (2007)
- Medical Personnel Harmed: The Delay, Abuse and Humiliation of Medical Personnel by Israeli Security Forces (2003)
- Thirsty for a Solution: The Water Shortage in the Occupied Territories and its Solution in the Final Status Agreement (2000)
- Land Grab: Israel's Settlement Policy in the West Bank (2002)
Purity of Arms ex Wiki
The code of purity of arms (Hebrew: Tohar HaNeshek) is one of the values stated in the Israel Defense Forces' official doctrine of ethics, The Spirit of the IDF.According to Rabbi Norman Solomon, the concepts of Havlaga and purity of arms arise out of the ethical and moral values stemming from the tradition of Israel, extrapolation from the Jewish Halakha, and the desire for moral approval and hence political support from the world community.[1] Despite doubts when confronted by indiscriminate terrorism, purity of arms remains the guiding rule for the Israeli forces.[1] These foundations have elicited a fair degree of consensus among Jews, both religious and secular.[1]
Others have challenged this image,[2][3] but according to Gideon Levy, the "majority of the Israelis is still deeply convinced that their army, the IDF, is the most moral army of the world, and nothing else".[4] A notable proponent of this image is Colonel Richard Kemp, a retired British army officer, who called the IDF the most moral army in the world on Israel's Channel 2 News.[5] The High Level Military Group, composed of military experts from Australia, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Italy, The United Kingdom, the United States, and Spain, released an assessment on Operation Protective Edge acknowledging Israel made "unprecedented efforts" to avoid civilian casualties exceeding international standards.[6]