Pre-emptively trying to discredit it, Israeli officials backed by Israel’s lobbies blasted Amnesty International’s report on the eve of its official release, calling it “false, biased, antisemitic, and dangerous to the safety of Jews worldwide.” In a video statement, Israeli foreign minister, Yair Lapid said that the report denies Israel’s right to exist as the nation-state of the Jewish people. For the US-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the report paints “Israel’s very creation as illegitimate, immoral, and faulted…[and] denies the Jewish right to self-determination in its historic homela…