Once upon a time I was a regular monthly contributor to Amnesty International because its principle work was humanitarian aid. Today, it is mainly in the business of Israel-bashing. I have canceled my contributions.

The current issue makes claims that are challenge credence. Consider these:

A soldier is alleged to have said: “That’s what is supposedly cool in Gaza… You see some guy on a road, walking along a path. They don’t have to be carrying weapons, you don’t have to identify that they have anything, you can just shoot them.”

Another supposedly said: “I want aggressiveness – if there’s someone suspicious on the upper floor of a house, we’ll shell it… let the mistakes be over their lives, not ours.”

Here is a third “incident”: “There was an order one day that we had to clean out the whole house, all the equipment and furniture. So we just threw it all out of the window to make room and tidy up. The whole house came flying through the window – fridge, plates…”

On the walls of houses in Gaza, are (allegedly) such scribblings as this: “We came to annihilate you” or “Next time it will hurt more”.

If we are to take this stuff seriously, then the old joke about Hitler’s return from hiding and telling the neo-Nazis: “No more Mr. Nice Guy. From now on we do things my way” seems no joke at all but a modest announcement. Compared to israelis, he is a nice guy.

My advice to Amnesty International: Get out of the anecdote business and return to the things you used to be good at. Or else, dry up and go away.