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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran appeared to threaten Israel with a nuclear attack on Friday when he described it as a "rotten, dried tree" that would be annihilated by "one storm." In his most vitriolic and anti-Semitic attack to date, Ahmadinejad warned that Israel faced imminent destruction. Speaking at the opening of a conference in Teheran to support the Palestinian cause, Ahmadinejad repeated earlier anti-Semitic attacks in Israel, questioning the scale of the Nazi Holocaust and attacking Zionism. (Telegraph-UK)
"I don't know why people think this is first and foremost a war for Israel. It's a problem for every civilized country. Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel. I don't think America can tolerate the idea of a leader of nation who can openly speak of the liquidation of another country. And therefore it is incumbent upon America and Europeans to form a strategy and implement it to remove this danger of unconventional weapons in Iran. To assume that Israel would be the first to go into a military confrontation with Iran represents a misunderstanding of this issue." (TIME)
The attempt to deprive [Israel of its ancient] history denies the link between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel. Jews are portrayed not as the indigenous people returning to their homeland, but as "imperialists" and "neo-colonialists," while the history, including the Exodus, is downgraded to the status of "myth." The Pessah Seder is our collective opportunity to reclaim and reassert Jewish history and the centrality of this legacy. As Ben-Gurion told the diplomatic jury in 1947: "Jews worldwide still eat matza for seven days from the 15th of Nisan, and retell the story of the Exodus, concluding with the fervent wish, 'Next Year in Jerusalem.' This is the nature of the Jewish people." (Jerusalem Post)
Although Israel "can and must be" subject to criticism, "especially by its friends," Bernard-Henri Levy denounced as the first pillar of the new anti-Semitism the "Satanization" and "vilification" of Israel "in order to vilify the Jews." The other two pillars of the current anti-Semitic phase, he said, are the claim that Jews have cultivated a status as victims in order to silence others, and the outright denial of the Holocaust. (UCLA International Institute)
The film "Tolerating Intolerance: Hate Speech on Campus" and the following panel discussion graphically exposed the reality of freedom of speech and pleaded for a solution to the resurgence of anti-Semitism. Shown to a small audience on Monday, April 10, the film highlighted the deliberately anti-Israel hate speech sweeping college campuses all over the nation. The actions illustrated in the film have made campus life increasingly more uncomfortable for Jewish students throughout the nation. (Campus Press)
Hasbara Fellowships, a pro-Israel activist program for college students, compiled mock election results from across the country. The results differed from the actual election results, with Likud claiming 44 out of 120 seats, followed by Kadima with 33 seats. At Carnegie Mellon, the sponsoring organization provided students with candidate information and the chance to vote in the Israeli mock election. They closed their polls last Monday night after a week and a half of tabling. (The Tartan)
Anti-Semitic leaflets appeared in publicly-accessible locations outside at least one upperclass House and several Yard dorms last week. One of the fliers carries the name of National Vanguard, a Charlottesville, Va.-based organization that, in its own words, "stands up for the interests of White people." One flier charges that the invasion of Iraq was "a war for Israel," and it claims that U.S. policy toward Israel "is an expression of the Jewish-Zionist grip on America"s political and cultural life." (Harvard Crimson)
