Alternative Information Center (AIC) Profile

AIC is a radical political organization run by individuals with links to the Trotskyite anti-Zionist Revolutionary Communist League (Matzpen) and the PFLP. Funders include: Diakonia (Swedish government), Christian Aid (Irish government), and Sodepau (Catalan government in Spain). AIC rhetoric includes: [Sanctions] can provide an excellent framework to fight normalization with Israel. Shimon Peres is definitely an enemy of the Palestinian people, of human rights and of peace. Only the choice of resistance can put an end to the occupation. Barak and the rest of them to Nuremberg!

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• Apartheid Rhetoric
• BDS
• Holocaust Rhetoric
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• War crimes

Quotes from UN Durban 2 Meetings and UNHRC: Syria, Egypt, Libya, and Palestinians

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• 2009 Durban Review Conference
• Egypt
• Holocaust Rhetoric
• Libya

• Racism
• Syria
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)
• United Nations

Abusing the Holocaust

Kenneth Roth, the head of Human Rights Watch, opened a recent response to critics of his statements on Israel ...by referring to his fathers "escape" from Nazi Germany. Roth often uses this theme in addressing Jewish audiences. In a November 2004 interview with The Jerusalem Post Roth also began his defense by referring to his fathers "stories of life in Nazi Germany until he fled in summer 1938." Roths ...frequent use of this issue suggest that their parents relationship to the Holocaust gives [him] special standing and immunity to criticism. Roth states that "my personal existence is very much a product of human rights abuse," implying he has a moral duty to campaign against such abuse whenever and wherever it takes place, and that Israel should not receive special treatment...

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• Holocaust Rhetoric