Weinstein-inspired West End play
organisation, whose work to stop abuses around the world should never be underrated,” said WJC executive vice president Robert Singer.
“But its singular focus on corporate entities doing business in Israeli settlements is gravely misguided and undermines its true mandate.”
In its report, Amnesty noted that Israel’s three most popular destinations among foreign tourists in 2017 were all in Jerusalem’s Old City.
NGO Monitor, a Jerusalem-based research institute, said the report only noted “in a footnote” that these sites were the Kotel, the Jewish Quarter and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
NGO Monitor said Amnesty seemed to think “foreign tourism to Israel is about supporting settlements, and not about religious and/or historical interest”.
Amnesty accused Airbnb, Booking. com, Expedia and TripAdvisor of “misleading their customers by failing to consistently indicate when listings are located in Israeli settlements”.
Israel’s Minister of Internal Security and Strategic Affairs Gilad Erdan is considering banning Amnesty International following the report.
Israel’s Tourism Minister Yariv Levin also said: “The Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people. We will fight this despicable antisemitic decision. No one can boycott Israel or parts of it.”
ONE of America’s leading playwrights has a new outing on the London stage later this year, inspired by the Harvey Weinstein scandal. John Malkovich plays the fictional character of Barney Fein in David Mamet’s Bitter Wheat, a “black farce about a very badly behaved movie mogul,” the actor said this week.
Mamet has ventured into the subject of sexual harassment previously in Oleanna, his 1992 play about a professor accused by a student.
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