Israel Campus Beat - April 23, 2006

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Business Science & Technology Arts and Entertainment Sports Domestic Israel News Suggest a Story Educational Resources Israel Study & Travel Additional News Sources Research Institutes NGOs Israeli Universities Israeli Government & IDF Featured this week Buffalo Concordia Cornell Florida George Washington Georgetown Harvard Ohio State Penn State South Florida Texas A & M Tufts Virginia Tech Washington U., St. Louis Weizmann Institute of Science Yale	Olmert: Syria, Iran Involved in Tel Aviv Suicide Bombing Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Friday accused the Syrian and Iranian governments of involvement in a suicide bombing that killed nine people in Tel Aviv this week. The Islamic Jihad militant group, which is based in the Syrian capital of Damascus, claimed responsibility for Monday's attack. "The order for the Tel Aviv suicide bombing came from Damascus and when the operation was complete the report went back to Damascus," Olmert told a visiting group of U.S. senators.  (AP/ABC)     See also Wounded Florida Teen Has Leg Amputated (Sun-Sentinel) Additional Headlines Israel Warns of New 'Axis of Terror' U.S. Looks to Israel for Anti-Terrorism Ideas Penn State Censors Exhibit Holocaust Memorial Day: April 25 - Holocaust Museum Sees New Use of "Protocols of Zion" A century-old forgery used to justify ill-treatment of Jews in Czarist Russia and widely circulated by the Nazis is distributed even today in many languages to stoke hatred of Israel, an exhibit at the Holocaust Museum says. Colorfully bound editions of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion have appeared recently in Mexico and in Japan, where there are few Jews, says exhibit historian Daniel Greene. High school texts in Syria, Lebanon and schools run by the Palestinian authority use the book as history, he says. (AP/Canton Repository) Hamas' Suicidal Answer - Editorial On Monday, a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself outside a packed Tel Aviv fast-food restaurant in one of the deadliest bombings in Israel in more than a year. The reaction from Hamas leaders, who control the Palestinian parliament, was swift and resounding: They cheered. This is, simply, stunning. And sickening. Hamas is the Palestinian government. It speaks for the Palestinian people. And now it says that strolling into a falafel palace and blowing up innocent civilians is a legitimate way to air political grievances. (Chicago Tribune) Concordia: Enhancing Student Life Reaps Rewards from Student Council by Karen Herland  Bra Bessisso, Rawan Hadid and Danny Iny received awards for promoting dialogue groups and other projects by the Arab Student Association (ASA) and Concordia Hillel.  Bessisso is the president of the ASA and Hadid is vice-president communications, while Iny is vice-president Israel Affairs at Concordia Hillel. In addition to the dialogue groups, the trio helped establish an essay contest on Israel/Palestinian historical narratives. They were involved in organizing a three-day symposium on Israeli and Palestinian Historical Narratives that was part of the Peace and Conflict Resolution Series. (Concordia Journal) George Washington: University Unlikely to Divest by Elizabeth Kamens The University is unlikely to heed the call of two groups of campus activists calling for GW to divest from companies that do business with Sudan and Israel. The push for the University to divest from companies with ties to Israel, led by campus activists for Palestinian rights, is the second major divestment campaign on campus. (GW Hatchet) Georgetown Visiting Prof Defying Stereotypes, Starting Center on Anti-Semitism in Germany by Eric Fingerhut When Ilka Schroeder, a non-Jew from Germany, starts talking about Israel and anti-Semitism, she says people in the United States are usually pretty astounded. The 28-year-old is starting a center in Berlin to fight anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, and she spent much of her five-year term as a member of the European Union Parliament trying to get the organization to reconsider its financial support of the Palestinian Authority. She is in Washington this year, teaching a class this semester and next for Georgetown University's Center for Jewish Civilization on anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism. (Washington Jewish Week) Ohio State: Group Presents Plan for Israel, Palestine by Laura DiGiulio Two representatives from Cleveland's Ishmael & Isaac organization came to the Ohio Union last week to discuss their plan toward a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine, and to recruit new volunteers to aid in reaching their goals. Ishmael & Isaac, an organization comprised of Jewish-Americans, Palestinian-Americans and Christians, works with public officials and nongovernmental organizations in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, and shares its vision of finding a resolution for the conflict. (Lantern) Point-Counterpoint - How Should Israel Treat the Palestinian Authority in Light of the Passover Attack? Salvage the Palestinian Authority by Yossi Ben-Ari After a long period of relative quiet, fears aroused that we are again at the edge of a new cycle of violence and blood that will not lead us anywhere, just like the previous cycles. This consideration must make a distinction between the Palestinian Authority's presidency, which condemned the attack, and the Hamas movement, whose government indeed views the attack as a "legitimate" move, but which also steers clear of carrying out similar attacks. The only way to stop this deterioration is to get the Palestinian Authority back on its feet, stabilize it, and give it a chance to turn into an independent entity in the future. This is a clear Israeli interest: It would be well for our government to agree to any formula that would allow for the rehabilitation of the Palestinian people and its government institutions, even if Hamas is at the helm. After all, even if we "converge" into permanent borders, we would certainly like to have law and order reinstated on the other side, so that the Qassam model in the south is not adopted along our eastern border as well. (Ynet News) The Terrorist Palestinian Authority - Editorial This was the first suicide bombing carried out under the aegis of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, the terrorist PA. While some in the international community seek extenuating circumstances for the Hamas regime and amplify every syllable that could remotely be interpreted as moderate, Hamas is refusing to expediently play along as the ostensible "good cop." Its behavior further vindicates the consensus in the West that this is a government that must moderate or fall, and that must not be financially sustained in the interim. The PA's highest echelons cannot and must not be absolved of responsibility for this latest massacre, even if it is Islamic Jihad's handiwork. Israelis and other Westerners must exercise the inherent right of self-preservation - and seek, savvily and resolutely, to thwart the murderous ambitions of the bombers, the Qassam cells and the PA government that champions them. 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