Yaacov Lozowick: Amnesty International, Purveyor of Fine Slander - '...Anatoly Scharansky was a prisoner of conscience, for nine long years. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a prisoner of conscience, until he was hanged. Nelson Mandela was a prisoner of conscience, for decades. At the moment there isn't a shred of evidence that Ameer Makhoul belongs to this illustrious club, nor that Israel belongs to the infamous club of countries that confines prisoners of conscience. True, there's a sleight of hand, whereby Amnesty International alleges that Israel does, and then damns it for doing so, but that's slander, not rational discussion based upon empiric evidence that can be tested against independent criteria and proved or disproved. At the moment the only thing that can be said with certainly is that Amnesty International is destroying the moral power of the terminology of true human rights by using it as propaganda. The only people who will be harmed are the real victims in the many places where human rights are actually being trampled.'