Comments on: Israel ranked close to bottom of latest “Global Peace Index” with human rights ranking on a par with North Korea and Iran

By: richard

richard — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:53:26 +0000

Another depressing milestone in the dark and historically well worn path being re-explored before our eyes. As many people have pointed out it is conspicuously stupid (to use a neutral term) in its methodology and unsurprisingly bizarre in its “conclusions”; but look who is behind it. Anglo-american wtf?

I see that most of the useful idiots who constitute the “Expert Panel” occupy pretentious academic roles in undistinguished institutions disproptionately in those (suprise suprise) top-ranking havens of “peace” (and models of racial integration) Australia and New Zealand; and the only UK academic who has put his name to this poison is Director of the Post-War Reconstruction and Development Unit at the University of York. No me neither - I dont think York has played such a distinguished role in International affairs since Constantine was declared emperor there.

I think the appropriate response (after anger) is mockery; and I am going to personally e-mail each one of them with my Global Anti Semitism Index ranking derived, after extensive consultation, on the basis of my personal prejudices.

By: Clap Hammer

Clap Hammer — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:20:31 +0000

Great article Robin. It would be nice to know the email addresses of those 10 Nobel prizewinners so tha I could ‘drop them a line’.

DaveP - Probably faulty measurement. Couldn’t be ‘bias’ could it?

By: DaveP

DaveP — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:43:44 +0000

If a measurment technique gave rise to results that were obviously in error, then the first thing to question is whether the method of measurement is not itself at fault. If not, then the person conducting the experiment may have injected bias.

This result of Israel having lower human rights figure then Saudi Arabia, is a clear case of a faulty measurement technique or bias.

By: Mailman

Mailman — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:28:28 +0000

Its almost as if this is a ready made report for the BBC to continue their war against Israel.

By: Jonathan Hoffman

Jonathan Hoffman — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:01:50 +0000

Looking at the methodology on “Vision of Humanity’s” website, I suspect that in the early years of World War Two (before the facts about the Holocaust became known), Britain would have come low down in their rankings, close to or possibly even below Germany.

By: Proud Zionist

Proud Zionist — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:09:58 +0000

Same human rights level as Iran!?!?!!
You know what they should do… they should survey Gaza and the West Bank. All the honour killings, Hamas’ sinister “virtue campaign” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/5925691/Hamas-launches-virtue-campaign-in-Gaza.html
They’ll have to come up with a new scale for all that. Although they’d probably still manage to find a way to make Israel look worse than Hamas.

By: Jonathan Hoffman

Jonathan Hoffman — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:05:32 +0000

This index is worthless. For example a country which spends 40% of GDP on Defence gets marked down, irrespective of whether that country has a hisory of belligerence or not.

The analysts also mark Israel down because ‘criminality is perceived to be high’. In reality crime in Israel is extremely low.

A clue as to the worthlessness of the index is that the compilers do not provide the raw data on their website to enable readers to replicate and comment upon the results.

By: Anne Klausner

Anne Klausner — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:03:22 +0000

Is there any way to protest this report, and if so, is there any point? After all, how does this have any effect on our day-to-day lives in Israel or outside it?