Dear Amnesty International,

Questioning the legitimacy of the only genuine democracy in the Middle East is patently absurd especially as those Arab Israelis who coexist peacefully with Jewish Israelis play a vital role in the government and judiciary with proportional representation in the Knesset and even a presence in the government itself as well in the Supreme Court.

It is your organization and people that need to be dismissed as dishonest and disingenuous antisemites who have harmed and not helped the cause of peace. Where you might have promoted compromise, you have created conflict, and as such have solidified your deal with the devil—with the rogue states that purportedly stand for human rights at the joke that is the United Nations.

Instead of worrying about the hundreds of thousands murdered and displaced in neighboring Syria or the Muslims of China you indiscriminately attack the only Jewish homeland on the planet, born out of the ashes of the Holocaust. Israel has been attacked since the day of her inception and Jews continue to be attacked wherever they are in the world. You just ensured that such injustices continue unabated. You actually encourage hatred and violence. I think most civilized people would agree, that is not a very honorable mission

You should be ashamed of yourselves, and you should know that we will not stand idly by while you promote these libelous falsehoods and thus further threaten our people who have suffered through millennia of persecution just because we are Jews. We have been deprived of our human rights and dignity for generations. Where were you then? Where are you now?

We stand shoulder to shoulder with Israel and squarely in the face of your ugly promotion of your injurious brand of injustice and prejudice.

Michael Turek

New Rochelle