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Carter’s ‘Apartheid’
United States
The Road Out Of Baghdad Does Not Lead Through Jerusalem
25,000 SWC Activists Lead Rebuke Of Carter’s ‘Apartheid’
fighters, isn’t a real force there. No one has explained how
By Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Editor-in-Chief
solving Palestinian grievances will make it less of a threat.
Building on his controversial book, Palestine: Peace Not
Iraq’s Turkish border: Turkey is concerned about
Apartheid, (see page 3) former President Jimmy Carter asserted in
Kurdish national aspirations encroaching on its territory.
The Washington Post:
Iran: The soon-to-be-nuclear mullahs would most likely
“The clear fact is that Israel will never find peace until it
redouble their efforts to establish themselves as the regional
is willing to withdraw from its neighboring occupied territories and
power destabilizing Iraq both through direct interference
permit the Palestinians to exercise their basic human and political
and indirect pressure from their Syrian ally. The Bakerrights...”
Hamilton wish for an international conference making
Mr. Carter failed
peace in the Holy Land that would somehow also
to mention that Israel is under constant terrorist
neutralize Iran’s designs in Iraq is a pipe dream.
threat from the two territories - Lebanon and Gaza
Afghanistan & Pakistan: The pro-Western Afghan
- it unilaterally withdrew from. Some blame Israel
regime, supported by NATO troops, is slowly losing
and her supporters for much worse than blocking
control to narco-terrorists and the resurgent Taliban.
peace in the Holy Land. Professors Stephen Walt of
How would Arab-Israel peace pacify this deteriorating
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and John
situation?
Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago charge in,
Meanwhile in Southern Asia, images of Jerusalem,
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, that the
Golan, and Gaza are largely irrelevant to a quarter
war in Iraq was due in large part to the [Israel] Lobby’s
suicide bomber Muhammad Saqsaq’s younger
million Muslims and one billion Hindus vying over
influence,” and that the Israel Lobby is now “using all Palestinian
brother celebrates his ‘martyrdom’ after murdering three
the Pakistan-India-Kashmir flashpoint.
the strategies in its playbook” to pressure the Bush young Israelis in an Eilat bakery. Hamas called the murders
U.S. Senator Joe Biden (D-MD), new chair
Administration into being aggressive and belligerent in “legitimate resistance”.
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
taking on Iran. And, MIT’s Professor Noam Chomsky
decried Baker-Hamilton’s recommendations on Israel as
insists Israel is nothing less than, “part of an international terror network that also included
“dangerously naive.” “Israeli-Palestinian peace should be
Taiwan, Britain, Argentine neo-Nazism and others, often with Saudi funding.”
pursued aggressively on its own merits, period, not as some
Meanwhile, former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft, and the Baker-Hamilton
sort of diplomatic price to make the Arab states feel good so
Commission insist that an imposed Israeli-Palestinian settlement would pull the Iraqi rabbit
they will help us in Iraq, ” Biden declared.
out of the hat by solving the Arab and Muslim world’s self-esteem problems.
Bottom line: selling out Israel under the cover of a
What if Jerusalem suddenly found a willing and reliable Palestinian peace partner?
Munich 1938-style international peace conference would
Would this lead to peace in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East?
only further erode America’s credibility and catastrophically
Israeli feelings (and security) aside, this is hardly a plausible scenario. Egypt and Jordan,
embolden a potentially nuclear-armed Iran.
already at peace with Israel, would be pleased by peace breaking out on their borders.
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States might also sign on. But the odds are prohibitive against
other regional dominoes falling into place. Syria’s Bashir Assad not only wants the Golan
Heights but seeks to abort Lebanon’s new-found independence. Damascus is aligned with,
and dependent on an implacable Iranian regime whose president seeks nuclearization
even as he committed to “wiping Israel off the map” and is advised by a “brain
trust” that just declared that Hitler was a Jew. Iran’s proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah,
a government-within-the-government, is also Assad’s Trojan Horse to bring down
Beirut’s pro-western democracy.
Photo: Credit Goes Here
No critique of American foreign policy stung as harshly as
Jimmy Carter’s media campaign promoting his bestseller.
From leading newspapers to Meet The Press, the man who
brokered the historic Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty insisted
Palestinians are victims of Apartheid policies and gave a
virtual moral pass on Palestinian terrorism, saying only that
such acts hurt the Palestinian cause.
Many of President Carter’s closest supporters were
appalled, including 14 members of the Carter Center’s
advisory board who resigned in protest. “You have clearly
abandoned your historic role of broker in favor of becoming
an advocate for one side,” their letter of resignation stated.
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Carter Accuses SWC of “Falsehood and Slander”
President Carter receiving the International Zayed Prize for the Environment
in 2001 from Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktum, Crown Prince of Dubai
and UAE Minister of Defence. The prize included $500,000. The following year
President Carter refused the Wiesenthal Center’s request to repudiate the
Zayed Center in Abu Dhabi for a symposium where it was asserted that the Nazi
Holocaust was a ‘false fable’.
JANUARY 26, 2007
FEBRUARY 2, 2007
To Rabbi Marvin Hier
Dear President Carter,
I don’t believe that Simon Wiesenthal
would have resorted to falsehood and
slander to raise funds.
This is in response to your letter of January 26, 2007.
Sincerely,
Jimmy Carter
RABIH MOGHRABI/AFP/Getty Images
Nor would an Israeli-Palestinian peace somehow transform the Iraqi morass:
Sectarian violence in Iraq: The “triangle of death” now virtually extends to
the entire country with Shias, Sunnis, and potentially Kurds at each other’s throats
with a hapless central government -- not able even to hang Saddam without making
a mess of it -- incapable
or unwilling of reigning
Recent disclosures of in the chaos. None of the
Carter’s extensive financial factions and militias have
connections to Arab oil money, any incentive to give the
particularly from Saudi Arabia, U.S. an “easy out.”
had deeply shaken my belief in Al Qaeda in Iraq: Just
his integrity...
because Saddam Hussein
was not behind the 9/11
~ Professor Alan Dershowitz
attacks doesn’t mean
that Al Qaeda in Iraq,
consisting of both foreign
terrorists and indigenous
This followed the earlier resignation of Carter Center Fellow and longtime Carter advisor,
Kenneth Stein.
Meanwhile, 25,000 activists joined the Wiesenthal Center’s petition campaign
rebuking the former President. His letter and Rabbi Hier’s response are printed below.
The Carter road show comes at a time of heightened anti-Israel rhetoric. Tony Judt,
a professor at New York University writes, “Israel today is bad for the Jews”, and, “It is the
policies of Israeli governments, especially in the past two decades that have provoked
widespread anti-Jewish feelings in Europe and elsewhere....”
Not to be outdone, former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, Scott Ritter, in his book,
Target Iran, alleges Israel is pushing the Bush Administration into war with Iran and
accuses the Israel Lobby of dual loyalty and “outright espionage.” “Let there be no doubt;
if there is an American war with Iran, it is a war that was made in Israel and nowhere else,”
Ritter insists.
I believe that Simon Wiesenthal would have been as outraged
by your book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
Apartheid,, as I was.
I bought the book and carefully read it before forming any
opinion on the matter. It is incredulous to me that, after your
historic achievement of brokering peace between Israel and
Egypt, you could write such a book.
Let me say, Mr. President, that I am not one who believes that
Israel is infallible and not capable of serious errors of judgment.
Countries, like human beings, are all fallible. But what is not
present in your book is the fact that there never would have
been a fence if the Palestinians would not have chosen terrorism
and suicide attacks against innocent civilians as their chief
tactic. No country, including our own, the United States of
America, would act any differently. If we faced such attacks
from our neighbors on a daily basis, we would be the first to
put up a security fence. That is not apartheid, Mr.
President, that is self-defense--the right of every
country and every human being.
To his last breath, Simon Wiesenthal believed that
the only reason there is no peace in the Middle
East is because of Islamic extremists who refuse to
compromise, not because of the State of Israel.
I hope this clarifies our position.
Sincerely,
Rabbi Marvin Hier
3 : 800 900 9036 : www.wiesenthal.com : response magazine
2/9/07 12:05:56 PM
Carter’s ‘Apartheid’
United States
The Road Out Of Baghdad Does Not Lead Through Jerusalem
25,000 SWC Activists Lead Rebuke Of Carter’s ‘Apartheid’
fighters, isn’t a real force there. No one has explained how
By Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Editor-in-Chief
solving Palestinian grievances will make it less of a threat.
Building on his controversial book, Palestine: Peace Not
Iraq’s Turkish border: Turkey is concerned about
Apartheid, (see page 3) former President Jimmy Carter asserted in
Kurdish national aspirations encroaching on its territory.
The Washington Post:
Iran: The soon-to-be-nuclear mullahs would most likely
“The clear fact is that Israel will never find peace until it
redouble their efforts to establish themselves as the regional
is willing to withdraw from its neighboring occupied territories and
power destabilizing Iraq both through direct interference
permit the Palestinians to exercise their basic human and political
and indirect pressure from their Syrian ally. The Bakerrights...”
Hamilton wish for an international conference making
Mr. Carter failed
peace in the Holy Land that would somehow also
to mention that Israel is under constant terrorist
neutralize Iran’s designs in Iraq is a pipe dream.
threat from the two territories - Lebanon and Gaza
Afghanistan & Pakistan: The pro-Western Afghan
- it unilaterally withdrew from. Some blame Israel
regime, supported by NATO troops, is slowly losing
and her supporters for much worse than blocking
control to narco-terrorists and the resurgent Taliban.
peace in the Holy Land. Professors Stephen Walt of
How would Arab-Israel peace pacify this deteriorating
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and John
situation?
Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago charge in,
Meanwhile in Southern Asia, images of Jerusalem,
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, that the
Golan, and Gaza are largely irrelevant to a quarter
war in Iraq was due in large part to the [Israel] Lobby’s
suicide bomber Muhammad Saqsaq’s younger
million Muslims and one billion Hindus vying over
influence,” and that the Israel Lobby is now “using all Palestinian
brother celebrates his ‘martyrdom’ after murdering three
the Pakistan-India-Kashmir flashpoint.
the strategies in its playbook” to pressure the Bush young Israelis in an Eilat bakery. Hamas called the murders
U.S. Senator Joe Biden (D-MD), new chair
Administration into being aggressive and belligerent in “legitimate resistance”.
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
taking on Iran. And, MIT’s Professor Noam Chomsky
decried Baker-Hamilton’s recommendations on Israel as
insists Israel is nothing less than, “part of an international terror network that also included
“dangerously naive.” “Israeli-Palestinian peace should be
Taiwan, Britain, Argentine neo-Nazism and others, often with Saudi funding.”
pursued aggressively on its own merits, period, not as some
Meanwhile, former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft, and the Baker-Hamilton
sort of diplomatic price to make the Arab states feel good so
Commission insist that an imposed Israeli-Palestinian settlement would pull the Iraqi rabbit
they will help us in Iraq, ” Biden declared.
out of the hat by solving the Arab and Muslim world’s self-esteem problems.
Bottom line: selling out Israel under the cover of a
What if Jerusalem suddenly found a willing and reliable Palestinian peace partner?
Munich 1938-style international peace conference would
Would this lead to peace in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East?
only further erode America’s credibility and catastrophically
Israeli feelings (and security) aside, this is hardly a plausible scenario. Egypt and Jordan,
embolden a potentially nuclear-armed Iran.
already at peace with Israel, would be pleased by peace breaking out on their borders.
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States might also sign on. But the odds are prohibitive against
other regional dominoes falling into place. Syria’s Bashir Assad not only wants the Golan
Heights but seeks to abort Lebanon’s new-found independence. Damascus is aligned with,
and dependent on an implacable Iranian regime whose president seeks nuclearization
even as he committed to “wiping Israel off the map” and is advised by a “brain
trust” that just declared that Hitler was a Jew. Iran’s proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah,
a government-within-the-government, is also Assad’s Trojan Horse to bring down
Beirut’s pro-western democracy.
Photo: Credit Goes Here
No critique of American foreign policy stung as harshly as
Jimmy Carter’s media campaign promoting his bestseller.
From leading newspapers to Meet The Press, the man who
brokered the historic Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty insisted
Palestinians are victims of Apartheid policies and gave a
virtual moral pass on Palestinian terrorism, saying only that
such acts hurt the Palestinian cause.
Many of President Carter’s closest supporters were
appalled, including 14 members of the Carter Center’s
advisory board who resigned in protest. “You have clearly
abandoned your historic role of broker in favor of becoming
an advocate for one side,” their letter of resignation stated.
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Carter Accuses SWC of “Falsehood and Slander”
President Carter receiving the International Zayed Prize for the Environment
in 2001 from Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktum, Crown Prince of Dubai
and UAE Minister of Defence. The prize included $500,000. The following year
President Carter refused the Wiesenthal Center’s request to repudiate the
Zayed Center in Abu Dhabi for a symposium where it was asserted that the Nazi
Holocaust was a ‘false fable’.
JANUARY 26, 2007
FEBRUARY 2, 2007
To Rabbi Marvin Hier
Dear President Carter,
I don’t believe that Simon Wiesenthal
would have resorted to falsehood and
slander to raise funds.
This is in response to your letter of January 26, 2007.
Sincerely,
Jimmy Carter
RABIH MOGHRABI/AFP/Getty Images
Nor would an Israeli-Palestinian peace somehow transform the Iraqi morass:
Sectarian violence in Iraq: The “triangle of death” now virtually extends to
the entire country with Shias, Sunnis, and potentially Kurds at each other’s throats
with a hapless central government -- not able even to hang Saddam without making
a mess of it -- incapable
or unwilling of reigning
Recent disclosures of in the chaos. None of the
Carter’s extensive financial factions and militias have
connections to Arab oil money, any incentive to give the
particularly from Saudi Arabia, U.S. an “easy out.”
had deeply shaken my belief in Al Qaeda in Iraq: Just
his integrity...
because Saddam Hussein
was not behind the 9/11
~ Professor Alan Dershowitz
attacks doesn’t mean
that Al Qaeda in Iraq,
consisting of both foreign
terrorists and indigenous
This followed the earlier resignation of Carter Center Fellow and longtime Carter advisor,
Kenneth Stein.
Meanwhile, 25,000 activists joined the Wiesenthal Center’s petition campaign
rebuking the former President. His letter and Rabbi Hier’s response are printed below.
The Carter road show comes at a time of heightened anti-Israel rhetoric. Tony Judt,
a professor at New York University writes, “Israel today is bad for the Jews”, and, “It is the
policies of Israeli governments, especially in the past two decades that have provoked
widespread anti-Jewish feelings in Europe and elsewhere....”
Not to be outdone, former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, Scott Ritter, in his book,
Target Iran, alleges Israel is pushing the Bush Administration into war with Iran and
accuses the Israel Lobby of dual loyalty and “outright espionage.” “Let there be no doubt;
if there is an American war with Iran, it is a war that was made in Israel and nowhere else,”
Ritter insists.
I believe that Simon Wiesenthal would have been as outraged
by your book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
Apartheid,, as I was.
I bought the book and carefully read it before forming any
opinion on the matter. It is incredulous to me that, after your
historic achievement of brokering peace between Israel and
Egypt, you could write such a book.
Let me say, Mr. President, that I am not one who believes that
Israel is infallible and not capable of serious errors of judgment.
Countries, like human beings, are all fallible. But what is not
present in your book is the fact that there never would have
been a fence if the Palestinians would not have chosen terrorism
and suicide attacks against innocent civilians as their chief
tactic. No country, including our own, the United States of
America, would act any differently. If we faced such attacks
from our neighbors on a daily basis, we would be the first to
put up a security fence. That is not apartheid, Mr.
President, that is self-defense--the right of every
country and every human being.
To his last breath, Simon Wiesenthal believed that
the only reason there is no peace in the Middle
East is because of Islamic extremists who refuse to
compromise, not because of the State of Israel.
I hope this clarifies our position.
Sincerely,
Rabbi Marvin Hier
3 : 800 900 9036 : www.wiesenthal.com : response magazine
2/9/07 12:05:56 PM
Tehran’s Global Threat
HOLOCAUST CONFERENCE SPARKS OUTRAGE,
New UN Chief
Denounces World
Gathering of Deniers
and Bigots
Tehran’s Holocaust denial conference
sponsored by the Iranian regime, brought
together 70 Holocaust revisionists and
bigots from 30 countries. The event
followed
President
Ahmadinejad’s
slander that the Holocaust was “a myth”
and came on the heels of an international
Holocaust cartoon contest in Tehran.
Members of the extremist Neturai Karta sect defamed the
memory of the 6 million by attending the Conference and
The conference brought courageous
meeting with President Ahmadinejad. Leaders of Haredei
communities in Israel and the Diaspora excommunicated
condemnation by Jewish leaders in Tehran
these renegades, including Moishe Arye Friedman
and outrage from across the globe.
pictured with Ahmadinejad.
Close to 35,000 activists joined the
Wiesenthal Center’s petition campaign to urge incoming UN Secretary-General, Ban
Ki-moon to step up the fight against the desecration of memory. His predecessor, Kofi
Annan, labeled Holocaust denial as, “...the work of bigots. We must reject their false claims
whenever, wherever, and by whomever they are made.” Center officials commended
Mr. Ban for using his first press conference to reproach Tehran, “Denying historical facts
especially on such an important subject as the Holocaust is just not acceptable...Nor is it
acceptable to call for the elimination of states or people... .”
In related developments, the UN General Assembly voted on a US-backed resolution
introduced January 27th, International Holocaust Memorial
Day, condemning any denial of the Holocaust. The resolution
recognized that, “Remembrance of the Holocaust is critical
to preventing further acts of genocide, and that ignoring the
historical fact of these terrible events increases the risk they will
be repeated.” Meanwhile, on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day,
youths urinated on Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial and a cattle car
from the Holocaust was set on fire. This as Germany, the current
president of the EU, sought to make Holocaust denial a crime in
the 27-country European Union. Currently, laws against Holocaust
UN Secretary-General Ban denial exist in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and Spain.
De-Judaizing Europe’s Memory?
Across Europe, pressure builds to cancel or de-Judaize the UN-designated Holocaust
Memorial Day, January 27th. The English city of Bolton followed Britain’s Muslim Council’s
boycott, instead commemorating ‘Genocide Day’. The Spanish town of Ciempozuelos
dropped Holocaust commemoration scheduling instead, “The Day Commemorating the
Genocide of the Palestinian People,” which was cancelled following Jewish protests.
In a moving exception, the Muslim Supreme Council of Ireland stated that
Holocaust Remembrance is a “day of remembrance and contemplation of the
horrific tragedy that befell the Jewish people in WWII, which is a shameful event
in the history of the human race....this catastrophe of our human history should
never ever happen again. Never again!”
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Cairo’s “Holocaust Lie”
Following Tehran’s Holocaust denial conference, moderate
Arab and Muslim leaders were urged to break their collective
silence: “Holocaust denial and genocidal threats against
Israel have helped catapult the Iranian leader to the top tier
of the Muslim world. It is the time for moderate leaders to
denounce his bigotry and to signal the people of Israel that
they are committed to a peaceful future with the Jewish
State,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier.
Most Arabs and Moslems remained silent, some
however, did not. The Tehran Conference featuring the
“who’s who” of Holocaust deniers - from former KKK
Wizard David Duke to Georges Thiel, a Frenchman
who has called the Holocaust, “an enormous lie,”
spawned another conference in Cairo.
“The Holocaust Lie” conference was convened
by the Arab Socialist Party and aired live
throughout the Arab world by Al-Alam Iranian TV in Arabic. The keynote
speaker was Waheed al Uksory, a well-known political figure who was one
of the candidates permitted to run against Egyptian President Mubarak in
the 2005 presidential elections. Pictured below is one speaker who was
waving the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion as he demonized the
Jewish people.
That this high-profile antisemitic event was allowed to proceed by authorities
in a country at peace with Israel was yet another sign of the growing clout of
Iran’s President Ahmadinejad in the Arab world.
AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian
The Iranian regime’s war against the Jews continues unabated. It propagates
antisemitism and Jew-hatred through mass media and the Internet. Iran’s State
television produces television shows depicting Blood Libels, showing Jews as
monkeys and pigs, with scenes of Jews persecuting Mohammed and crucifying
figures reminiscent of Jesus.
A top advisor to President Ahmadinejad, Ali Ramin, recently insisted that Adolf
Hitler’s parents were both Jewish and that Hitler’s policies were aimed at bringing
about a Jewish State. His source? A book entitled Adolf Hitler: Founder of Israel!
COMPLICITY AND COPYCATS
TOLERANCE AT WORK
Muslim, Christian, Bahai and Jewish leaders confer an International Tolerance
Assembly in Haifa’s City Hall. (L-R) Bashy Qurashy, President, European Network
Against Racism, Denmark; Dr. Albert Lincoln, Secretary General, Baha’i World Centre;
Dr. Elias Shakur, Bishop, Catholic Church in Israel; Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav and Rabbi
Abraham Cooper. Not pictured, philosopher Marad El Hattab and Dr. Shimon Samuels.
The event was co-sponsored by: Beit Hagefen, Arab Jewish Cultural Center, City of Haifa
and SWC.
SWC Empowers Survivors
“Witness To The Truth”
Ahmadinejad Loses Local Elections
Videoconference Repudiates Haters
In a collective display of defiance against the Iranian
regime, over 60 Holocaust Survivors from North
America joined together to share first-hand their
accounts of the horrors of the Nazis’ Final Solution
and debunking the deniers.
Simultaneous to Tehran’s Holocaust denial
conference, the Center’s ‘Witness To The Truth,’
videoconference linked the Simon Wiesenthal
Center’s Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, the
Tolerancenter in New York and the Canadian Friends
of SWC for Holocaust Studies in Toronto. The event
was covered by major media outlets.
Hundreds of testimonies from Holocaust
survivors from around the world were also gathered
through the Internet and will be entered as part of all
the testimonies in the Center’s archives.
Additionally, a 2-DVD set of all the individual
5-minute oral testimonies presented in the
videoconference is available for distribution to
schools and communities the world over at:
www.wiesenthal.com/store
And to introduce the Iranian people to the
history of the Holocaust, the Center posted a
Persian translation of its “36 Questions About the
Holocaust” online at: www.wiesenthal.com/
36questionsinfarsi
The Wiesenthal Center urged leaders, opinion makers and Arab media, like Al
Jazeera (which has featured David Irving) to spurn the ‘Big Lie’ of Holocaust
denial and instead interact with Holocaust survivors to learn about history’s
most documented crime.
Iranians Protest: “Not In My Name!”
Though it took some time, there were growing signs that many Iranians were
uncomfortable with Ahmadindejad’s isolation from the West, his continued
Holocaust denial and over-the-top bigotry. The Wiesenthal Center welcomed
the protest of 42 Reformist Iranian Parliamentarians. “The only way to pass this
crisis is to build confidence, but holding a Holocaust conference and financing
the Hamas government creates mistrust and tension,” declared spokesman
Noureddin Pirmoazzen.
Meanwhile, over 100 prominent Iranian activists from around the world,
mostly Muslim, signed a statement paying homage to Jewish and non-Jewish
victims of the Nazi regime while blasting the Iranian government for “distortion
of historical facts.” The Associated Press reported, “the statement notes that
the activists are signing notwithstanding their diverse views on the IsraeliPalestinian conflict.”
The effort was initiated by Ladan Boroumand, a historian and human
rights activist who was frustrated by the relative silence on the subject from the
Iranian diaspora. It was printed in The New York Review of Books. “This power
they claim to be able to tell you what the truth is and what it is not is where
totalitarianism gets its strength from,” said Boroumand.
Azar Nafisi, author of the best-selling book, Reading Lolita in Tehran, and
one of the early advocates and signers of the initiative said, “I thought it was
inappropriate to use the Holocaust as a political issue ... I thought that Iranians,
especially non-Jewish Iranians, had a responsibility to say, ‘Not in my name.’”
There are signs that Ahmadinejad’s bellicose and confrontational
style with the U.S. and Europe may have also contributed to recent
political setbacks when he lost nationwide elections to supporters
of ex-President Rafsanjani, who just last year was defeated in the
presidential election. The influential Rafsanjani also received the most
votes in elections to the Experts’ Assembly, a clerical body with the
power to appoint and remove Iran’s supreme leader. Ahmadinejad’s
loss was widely attributed to dissatisfaction with the economy and his
battle with the West that has led to sanctions.
Rafsanjani Indicted for AMIA Bombing
To the surprise of observers and victims’ families, an Argentine judge
issued arrest warrants for senior Iranian officials, including former
Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani, for ordering the 1994 suicide
bombing (by a Hezbollah terrorist) of Buenos Aires’ AMIA Jewish
Cultural Center. The attack killed 85 people and maimed hundreds
more.
Rabbi Cooper and Latin America Representative Sergio Widder
met in Buenos Aires with federal prosecutors, Alberto Nisman and
Marcelo Martínez Burgos, whose team painstakingly compiled the
800-page indictment. They also conferred with Minister of Interior,
Anibal Fernandez (see photo page 6); Senator Cristina Fernandez de
Kirchner; Representative Federico Pinedo, and Vice Foreign Minister
Roberto Garcia Moritan, as well as representatives of the AMIA
victims. The Center urged the international community, including
INTERPOL, to assist the Argentines to bring the accused before the
bar of justice.
Undettered by the Argentine indictment, President Ahmadinejad
and his ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, deepened their
alliance in Caracas by establishing a $2 billion project and 10 additional
agreements. Ahmadinejad then met the new Nicaraqua President,
Daniel Ortega and Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa.
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Tehran’s Global Threat
HOLOCAUST CONFERENCE SPARKS OUTRAGE,
New UN Chief
Denounces World
Gathering of Deniers
and Bigots
Tehran’s Holocaust denial conference
sponsored by the Iranian regime, brought
together 70 Holocaust revisionists and
bigots from 30 countries. The event
followed
President
Ahmadinejad’s
slander that the Holocaust was “a myth”
and came on the heels of an international
Holocaust cartoon contest in Tehran.
Members of the extremist Neturai Karta sect defamed the
memory of the 6 million by attending the Conference and
The conference brought courageous
meeting with President Ahmadinejad. Leaders of Haredei
communities in Israel and the Diaspora excommunicated
condemnation by Jewish leaders in Tehran
these renegades, including Moishe Arye Friedman
and outrage from across the globe.
pictured with Ahmadinejad.
Close to 35,000 activists joined the
Wiesenthal Center’s petition campaign to urge incoming UN Secretary-General, Ban
Ki-moon to step up the fight against the desecration of memory. His predecessor, Kofi
Annan, labeled Holocaust denial as, “...the work of bigots. We must reject their false claims
whenever, wherever, and by whomever they are made.” Center officials commended
Mr. Ban for using his first press conference to reproach Tehran, “Denying historical facts
especially on such an important subject as the Holocaust is just not acceptable...Nor is it
acceptable to call for the elimination of states or people... .”
In related developments, the UN General Assembly voted on a US-backed resolution
introduced January 27th, International Holocaust Memorial
Day, condemning any denial of the Holocaust. The resolution
recognized that, “Remembrance of the Holocaust is critical
to preventing further acts of genocide, and that ignoring the
historical fact of these terrible events increases the risk they will
be repeated.” Meanwhile, on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day,
youths urinated on Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial and a cattle car
from the Holocaust was set on fire. This as Germany, the current
president of the EU, sought to make Holocaust denial a crime in
the 27-country European Union. Currently, laws against Holocaust
UN Secretary-General Ban denial exist in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and Spain.
De-Judaizing Europe’s Memory?
Across Europe, pressure builds to cancel or de-Judaize the UN-designated Holocaust
Memorial Day, January 27th. The English city of Bolton followed Britain’s Muslim Council’s
boycott, instead commemorating ‘Genocide Day’. The Spanish town of Ciempozuelos
dropped Holocaust commemoration scheduling instead, “The Day Commemorating the
Genocide of the Palestinian People,” which was cancelled following Jewish protests.
In a moving exception, the Muslim Supreme Council of Ireland stated that
Holocaust Remembrance is a “day of remembrance and contemplation of the
horrific tragedy that befell the Jewish people in WWII, which is a shameful event
in the history of the human race....this catastrophe of our human history should
never ever happen again. Never again!”
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Cairo’s “Holocaust Lie”
Following Tehran’s Holocaust denial conference, moderate
Arab and Muslim leaders were urged to break their collective
silence: “Holocaust denial and genocidal threats against
Israel have helped catapult the Iranian leader to the top tier
of the Muslim world. It is the time for moderate leaders to
denounce his bigotry and to signal the people of Israel that
they are committed to a peaceful future with the Jewish
State,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier.
Most Arabs and Moslems remained silent, some
however, did not. The Tehran Conference featuring the
“who’s who” of Holocaust deniers - from former KKK
Wizard David Duke to Georges Thiel, a Frenchman
who has called the Holocaust, “an enormous lie,”
spawned another conference in Cairo.
“The Holocaust Lie” conference was convened
by the Arab Socialist Party and aired live
throughout the Arab world by Al-Alam Iranian TV in Arabic. The keynote
speaker was Waheed al Uksory, a well-known political figure who was one
of the candidates permitted to run against Egyptian President Mubarak in
the 2005 presidential elections. Pictured below is one speaker who was
waving the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion as he demonized the
Jewish people.
That this high-profile antisemitic event was allowed to proceed by authorities
in a country at peace with Israel was yet another sign of the growing clout of
Iran’s President Ahmadinejad in the Arab world.
AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian
The Iranian regime’s war against the Jews continues unabated. It propagates
antisemitism and Jew-hatred through mass media and the Internet. Iran’s State
television produces television shows depicting Blood Libels, showing Jews as
monkeys and pigs, with scenes of Jews persecuting Mohammed and crucifying
figures reminiscent of Jesus.
A top advisor to President Ahmadinejad, Ali Ramin, recently insisted that Adolf
Hitler’s parents were both Jewish and that Hitler’s policies were aimed at bringing
about a Jewish State. His source? A book entitled Adolf Hitler: Founder of Israel!
COMPLICITY AND COPYCATS
TOLERANCE AT WORK
Muslim, Christian, Bahai and Jewish leaders confer an International Tolerance
Assembly in Haifa’s City Hall. (L-R) Bashy Qurashy, President, European Network
Against Racism, Denmark; Dr. Albert Lincoln, Secretary General, Baha’i World Centre;
Dr. Elias Shakur, Bishop, Catholic Church in Israel; Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav and Rabbi
Abraham Cooper. Not pictured, philosopher Marad El Hattab and Dr. Shimon Samuels.
The event was co-sponsored by: Beit Hagefen, Arab Jewish Cultural Center, City of Haifa
and SWC.
SWC Empowers Survivors
“Witness To The Truth”
Ahmadinejad Loses Local Elections
Videoconference Repudiates Haters
In a collective display of defiance against the Iranian
regime, over 60 Holocaust Survivors from North
America joined together to share first-hand their
accounts of the horrors of the Nazis’ Final Solution
and debunking the deniers.
Simultaneous to Tehran’s Holocaust denial
conference, the Center’s ‘Witness To The Truth,’
videoconference linked the Simon Wiesenthal
Center’s Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, the
Tolerancenter in New York and the Canadian Friends
of SWC for Holocaust Studies in Toronto. The event
was covered by major media outlets.
Hundreds of testimonies from Holocaust
survivors from around the world were also gathered
through the Internet and will be entered as part of all
the testimonies in the Center’s archives.
Additionally, a 2-DVD set of all the individual
5-minute oral testimonies presented in the
videoconference is available for distribution to
schools and communities the world over at:
www.wiesenthal.com/store
And to introduce the Iranian people to the
history of the Holocaust, the Center posted a
Persian translation of its “36 Questions About the
Holocaust” online at: www.wiesenthal.com/
36questionsinfarsi
The Wiesenthal Center urged leaders, opinion makers and Arab media, like Al
Jazeera (which has featured David Irving) to spurn the ‘Big Lie’ of Holocaust
denial and instead interact with Holocaust survivors to learn about history’s
most documented crime.
Iranians Protest: “Not In My Name!”
Though it took some time, there were growing signs that many Iranians were
uncomfortable with Ahmadindejad’s isolation from the West, his continued
Holocaust denial and over-the-top bigotry. The Wiesenthal Center welcomed
the protest of 42 Reformist Iranian Parliamentarians. “The only way to pass this
crisis is to build confidence, but holding a Holocaust conference and financing
the Hamas government creates mistrust and tension,” declared spokesman
Noureddin Pirmoazzen.
Meanwhile, over 100 prominent Iranian activists from around the world,
mostly Muslim, signed a statement paying homage to Jewish and non-Jewish
victims of the Nazi regime while blasting the Iranian government for “distortion
of historical facts.” The Associated Press reported, “the statement notes that
the activists are signing notwithstanding their diverse views on the IsraeliPalestinian conflict.”
The effort was initiated by Ladan Boroumand, a historian and human
rights activist who was frustrated by the relative silence on the subject from the
Iranian diaspora. It was printed in The New York Review of Books. “This power
they claim to be able to tell you what the truth is and what it is not is where
totalitarianism gets its strength from,” said Boroumand.
Azar Nafisi, author of the best-selling book, Reading Lolita in Tehran, and
one of the early advocates and signers of the initiative said, “I thought it was
inappropriate to use the Holocaust as a political issue ... I thought that Iranians,
especially non-Jewish Iranians, had a responsibility to say, ‘Not in my name.’”
There are signs that Ahmadinejad’s bellicose and confrontational
style with the U.S. and Europe may have also contributed to recent
political setbacks when he lost nationwide elections to supporters
of ex-President Rafsanjani, who just last year was defeated in the
presidential election. The influential Rafsanjani also received the most
votes in elections to the Experts’ Assembly, a clerical body with the
power to appoint and remove Iran’s supreme leader. Ahmadinejad’s
loss was widely attributed to dissatisfaction with the economy and his
battle with the West that has led to sanctions.
Rafsanjani Indicted for AMIA Bombing
To the surprise of observers and victims’ families, an Argentine judge
issued arrest warrants for senior Iranian officials, including former
Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani, for ordering the 1994 suicide
bombing (by a Hezbollah terrorist) of Buenos Aires’ AMIA Jewish
Cultural Center. The attack killed 85 people and maimed hundreds
more.
Rabbi Cooper and Latin America Representative Sergio Widder
met in Buenos Aires with federal prosecutors, Alberto Nisman and
Marcelo Martínez Burgos, whose team painstakingly compiled the
800-page indictment. They also conferred with Minister of Interior,
Anibal Fernandez (see photo page 6); Senator Cristina Fernandez de
Kirchner; Representative Federico Pinedo, and Vice Foreign Minister
Roberto Garcia Moritan, as well as representatives of the AMIA
victims. The Center urged the international community, including
INTERPOL, to assist the Argentines to bring the accused before the
bar of justice.
Undettered by the Argentine indictment, President Ahmadinejad
and his ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, deepened their
alliance in Caracas by establishing a $2 billion project and 10 additional
agreements. Ahmadinejad then met the new Nicaraqua President,
Daniel Ortega and Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa.
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around
the globe
hezbollah’s
war:
antisemitic backlash
Israel’s Prime Minister Olmert speaking
to the SWC Board of Trustees at the
Museum of Tolerance. Larry Mizel,
Chairman, seated and Associate Dean
Rabbi Abraham Cooper (L) and Executive
Director Rabbi Meyer H. May (R).
CANADIANS
UNITED AGAINST GENOCIDE
MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE
SAVE THE DATES
Ehud Olmert on the Center for Human Dignity, Museum of
Tolerance - Jerusalem
Prime Minister Olmert flanked by world reknowned
architect, Frank Gehry (L), and Rabbi Marvin Hier
(R). Mr. Gehry is designing the Center For Human
Dignity, Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem.
“What we really need in this part of the world
is a concerted effort by a major organization
that will be dedicated to one thing: to educate
for tolerance; to educate for human dignity,
to educate for some kind of cooperation and
understanding and compassion amongst all
of us who are destined to share the Middle
East. The Simon Wiesenthal Center can make
a major contribution to the creation of a new
environment of cooperation and tolerance in
a city which needs tolerance perhaps more
than any other city in the world.”
FLORIDA
LOS ANGELES:
June 3, 2007
Benefit Performance - Jersey Boys
Ahmanson Theater
June 20, 2007
Tribute Dinner Honoring
Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne
Beverly Hilton Hotel
SOUTH FLORIDA:
April 22, 2007
Tribute Dinner
Honoring Edie Laquer
The Ritz Carlton Hotel, Miami Beach
CANADA
CANADA:
“I’ll do everything in my power that
the Jewish people will never again be
exposed to the threat of annihilation.”
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during his tour of the Center’s Museum of Tolerance
At an Ottawa news conference, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
for Holocaust Studies teamed with the Canadian Jewish Congress
and representatives of the Armenian, Darfori, Rawandan and Roma
communities to decry Canada’s role as a haven for those who have
committed Crimes Against Humanity. Joining Friends’ Director of
National Affairs Leo Adler (third from left) are Miloslav Slavchev
(Roma Community Centre), Jean-Paul Nyilikwaya (PAGE-Rwanda), Aris
Babikian (Armenian National Committee of Canada), Bernie Farber
(Canadian Jewish Congress) and Ian Sadinsky (Jewish Federation
of Ottawa).
DAVOS
At the Miami premiere of I Have Never Forgotten You: The
Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal are (L-R) co-chairs
Robert and Moj Danial; Rabbi Meyer May; co-chairs Dr.
Baruch and Robin Jacobs; Rabbi Marvin Hier, Producer
and Director Richard Trank; and Center Trustee and cochairs Russell and Ronalee Galbut.
NEW YORK TOLERANCE CENTER
Women of Valour: Standing (L-R) Shawna Spiegelman,
Events Coordinator, FSWC; Avi Benlolo, President & CEO,
FSWC; Carole Grafstein, Woman of Valour Honouree;
Pauline Menkes, Woman of Valour Honouree; Elise Kalles,
Woman of Valour Honouree; Barb Silverberg, Committee
Chair; Debbie Kimel, Event Hostess. Seated (L-R) Anna
Koffler, event co-chair; and Helene Korn, event co-chair.
ISRAEL
April 16, 2007
Film Premiere: I Have Never
Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy
of Simon Wiesenthal
Montreal
June 5, 2007
Gala Dinner Honoring Al Gore
Toronto
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Forum 2007 meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Pictured (left) Dr. Graciela Samuels and HRH Princess Lolwah Al Faisal of Saudi Arabia, co-Chair of the C-100, and Dr. Shimon Samuels. (center)
Lord Carey of Clifton, former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Samuels and Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Mahmoud Nazif. (right) HM Queen Rania of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
UKRAINE
LATIN AMERICA
Over 160 people packed the New York Tolerance Center’s
Theater and Hall of Memory to hear Richard Sonnenfeldt,
the Chief Interpreter for the American Prosecution Team
at the 1945 Nuremberg Trials, tell his insightful story of
dealing directly with the top-ranking Nazis of Hitler’s
inner circle.
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER
INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
Rabbi Abraham Cooper Editor-in-Chief
Rabbi Marvin Hier Founder & President
Rabbi Abraham Cooper Associate Dean
Rabbi Meyer H. May Executive Director
Susan Burden Chief Financial Officer
Chief Administrative Officer
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Marlene Levine Director, Membership Development
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Historic First with the Latin American Parliament
The Wiesenthal Center has become the first Jewish
organization to sign a cooperation agreement with the 22member state Latin American Parliament (PARLATINO),
headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Pictured: Dr. Shimon
Samuels, OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza (Chile),
Chair of Commission on Civic Security, Combating Drug
Trade, Terrorism and Organized Crime, Congresswoman
Paola Spatola (Argentina); and Sergio Widder
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Liebe Geft, Director, Museum of Tolerance, in front of the
memorial to Jewish Holocaust victims at Babi Yar, Kiev. Ms.
Geft lectured in the Ukraine for the US State Department.
Meanwhile, the UCSJ (Union of Councils for Soviet Jews),
reports that Ukraine and Russia confront similar problems
of antisemitism and growing neo-Nazi movements, with
“violent attacks on Jews higher in the Ukraine.”
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
[email protected]
RESPONSE MAGAZINE
Michele E Alkin Managing Editor
Rabbi Cooper and Sergio Widder with Argentine Interior
Minister Anibal Fernandez (center) discuss efforts to
combat international terrorism including the recent arrest
warrant for ex-Iranian President Rafsanjani and other
Iranian officials in connection with the AMIA bombing.
According to DAIA, Argentina’s umbrella of Jewish groups,
antisemitic attacks in 2006 increased by 32% over the
previous year. (See related story page 5)
Dr. Efraim Zuroff, the Center’s Israel Director
and Nazi Hunter, spoke at an international
conference at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem marking
the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg War
Crimes Tribunal.
The Wiesenthal Center’s acclaimed award-winning
documentaries will be among the dynamic components
of a new outreach effort to reach younger audiences
and help Jewish students facing increasing volatility on
university campuses.
Jenny Alin Art Director
Marlene Levine Director, Membership
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the globe
hezbollah’s
war:
antisemitic backlash
Israel’s Prime Minister Olmert speaking
to the SWC Board of Trustees at the
Museum of Tolerance. Larry Mizel,
Chairman, seated and Associate Dean
Rabbi Abraham Cooper (L) and Executive
Director Rabbi Meyer H. May (R).
CANADIANS
UNITED AGAINST GENOCIDE
MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE
SAVE THE DATES
Ehud Olmert on the Center for Human Dignity, Museum of
Tolerance - Jerusalem
Prime Minister Olmert flanked by world reknowned
architect, Frank Gehry (L), and Rabbi Marvin Hier
(R). Mr. Gehry is designing the Center For Human
Dignity, Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem.
“What we really need in this part of the world
is a concerted effort by a major organization
that will be dedicated to one thing: to educate
for tolerance; to educate for human dignity,
to educate for some kind of cooperation and
understanding and compassion amongst all
of us who are destined to share the Middle
East. The Simon Wiesenthal Center can make
a major contribution to the creation of a new
environment of cooperation and tolerance in
a city which needs tolerance perhaps more
than any other city in the world.”
FLORIDA
LOS ANGELES:
June 3, 2007
Benefit Performance - Jersey Boys
Ahmanson Theater
June 20, 2007
Tribute Dinner Honoring
Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne
Beverly Hilton Hotel
SOUTH FLORIDA:
April 22, 2007
Tribute Dinner
Honoring Edie Laquer
The Ritz Carlton Hotel, Miami Beach
CANADA
CANADA:
“I’ll do everything in my power that
the Jewish people will never again be
exposed to the threat of annihilation.”
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during his tour of the Center’s Museum of Tolerance
At an Ottawa news conference, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
for Holocaust Studies teamed with the Canadian Jewish Congress
and representatives of the Armenian, Darfori, Rawandan and Roma
communities to decry Canada’s role as a haven for those who have
committed Crimes Against Humanity. Joining Friends’ Director of
National Affairs Leo Adler (third from left) are Miloslav Slavchev
(Roma Community Centre), Jean-Paul Nyilikwaya (PAGE-Rwanda), Aris
Babikian (Armenian National Committee of Canada), Bernie Farber
(Canadian Jewish Congress) and Ian Sadinsky (Jewish Federation
of Ottawa).
DAVOS
At the Miami premiere of I Have Never Forgotten You: The
Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal are (L-R) co-chairs
Robert and Moj Danial; Rabbi Meyer May; co-chairs Dr.
Baruch and Robin Jacobs; Rabbi Marvin Hier, Producer
and Director Richard Trank; and Center Trustee and cochairs Russell and Ronalee Galbut.
NEW YORK TOLERANCE CENTER
Women of Valour: Standing (L-R) Shawna Spiegelman,
Events Coordinator, FSWC; Avi Benlolo, President & CEO,
FSWC; Carole Grafstein, Woman of Valour Honouree;
Pauline Menkes, Woman of Valour Honouree; Elise Kalles,
Woman of Valour Honouree; Barb Silverberg, Committee
Chair; Debbie Kimel, Event Hostess. Seated (L-R) Anna
Koffler, event co-chair; and Helene Korn, event co-chair.
ISRAEL
April 16, 2007
Film Premiere: I Have Never
Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy
of Simon Wiesenthal
Montreal
June 5, 2007
Gala Dinner Honoring Al Gore
Toronto
New!
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Dr. Shimon Samuels, the Center’s Director for International Relations participated in the C-100 - “The Council of 100 Leaders in the West - Islamic Dialogue Initiative” of the World Economic
Forum 2007 meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Pictured (left) Dr. Graciela Samuels and HRH Princess Lolwah Al Faisal of Saudi Arabia, co-Chair of the C-100, and Dr. Shimon Samuels. (center)
Lord Carey of Clifton, former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Samuels and Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Mahmoud Nazif. (right) HM Queen Rania of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
UKRAINE
LATIN AMERICA
Over 160 people packed the New York Tolerance Center’s
Theater and Hall of Memory to hear Richard Sonnenfeldt,
the Chief Interpreter for the American Prosecution Team
at the 1945 Nuremberg Trials, tell his insightful story of
dealing directly with the top-ranking Nazis of Hitler’s
inner circle.
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER
INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
Rabbi Abraham Cooper Editor-in-Chief
Rabbi Marvin Hier Founder & President
Rabbi Abraham Cooper Associate Dean
Rabbi Meyer H. May Executive Director
Susan Burden Chief Financial Officer
Chief Administrative Officer
Liebe Geft Director, Museum of Tolerance
Marlene Levine Director, Membership Development
Avra Shapiro* Director, Public Relations
Richard Trank Director, Media Projects
Janice Prager Director, Major Gifts
Michele Alkin Director, Communications
Vivien Park Controller
* For media inquiries 310.772.2458
LOS ANGELES : 1399 S. Roxbury Dr. Los Angeles, CA 90035
t) 310.553.9036 f) 310.553.8007 www.wiesenthal.com
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Historic First with the Latin American Parliament
The Wiesenthal Center has become the first Jewish
organization to sign a cooperation agreement with the 22member state Latin American Parliament (PARLATINO),
headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Pictured: Dr. Shimon
Samuels, OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza (Chile),
Chair of Commission on Civic Security, Combating Drug
Trade, Terrorism and Organized Crime, Congresswoman
Paola Spatola (Argentina); and Sergio Widder
response magazine : www.wiesenthal.com : 800 900 9036 :
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Liebe Geft, Director, Museum of Tolerance, in front of the
memorial to Jewish Holocaust victims at Babi Yar, Kiev. Ms.
Geft lectured in the Ukraine for the US State Department.
Meanwhile, the UCSJ (Union of Councils for Soviet Jews),
reports that Ukraine and Russia confront similar problems
of antisemitism and growing neo-Nazi movements, with
“violent attacks on Jews higher in the Ukraine.”
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
[email protected]
RESPONSE MAGAZINE
Michele E Alkin Managing Editor
Rabbi Cooper and Sergio Widder with Argentine Interior
Minister Anibal Fernandez (center) discuss efforts to
combat international terrorism including the recent arrest
warrant for ex-Iranian President Rafsanjani and other
Iranian officials in connection with the AMIA bombing.
According to DAIA, Argentina’s umbrella of Jewish groups,
antisemitic attacks in 2006 increased by 32% over the
previous year. (See related story page 5)
Dr. Efraim Zuroff, the Center’s Israel Director
and Nazi Hunter, spoke at an international
conference at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem marking
the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg War
Crimes Tribunal.
The Wiesenthal Center’s acclaimed award-winning
documentaries will be among the dynamic components
of a new outreach effort to reach younger audiences
and help Jewish students facing increasing volatility on
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