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Amnesty critic stands for role on charity's board

February 25, 2010 15:19

ByAnonymous, Anonymous

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A trenchant critic of Amnesty International's policy on Israel, Eric Lee, is standing for its section board in the UK - effectively the organisation's board of governors, which makes its policy.

Mr Lee, founder of the LabourStart website and a long-time trade union organiser, is one of ten candidates for four seats on the Amnesty International UK Section Board.

Each candidate is allowed a 100-word election manifesto, which will be sent to more than 250,000 Amnesty members in the next two weeks.

New York-born Mr Lee, who was a member of Amnesty in Israel in the mid-1990s, where he helped to build its second largest chapter, has issued an uncompromising challenge to Amnesty supporters.