Rethinking prosecution of Holocaust denial Today in democratic countries we face infinitely greater threats than from those promoting the insane proposition that the Holocaust was a fantasy. Prosecuting the deniers in court transforms them into victims and diverts us from confronting...
Why is the West funding Abbas’ hate TV? For too long the West has turned a blind eye towards incitement against Israel featured on the Palestinian Authority’s TV station. Itamar Marcus, director of Palestinian Media Watch, describes in the Jerusalem Post how Norway, other European...
Exchange with Yehuda Bauer Editor’s note: On July 8th Isi wrote in the Jerusalem Post in support of a petition that he and 100 leading Israeli intellectual and public figures signed urging Yad Vashem to exhibit works relating to Hillel Kook’s efforts in the United...
WJC embraces an anti-Semite World Jewish Congress officials allowed themselves to get carried away when they hailed a recent meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as having been "successful" and proclaimed that he had joined the global struggle against anti-Semitism.
Yad Vashem and Hillel Kook מאמר בעברית I was privileged to sign a petition to Yad Vashem with over a 100 leading Israeli intellectuals and public figures encompassing the entire political spectrum, from Moshe Arens to former Supreme Court Justice Meir Shamgar to...
The state of Jew-hatred Almost 300 parliamentarians, academicians, human rights activists and Jewish leaders from all corners of the globe are participating in the Global Forum against Anti Semitism, held under the auspices of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and...
A nation that is in search of leadership With the impending release of the Winograd Report, most Israelis will be mulling over the future of their current leadership. Those old enough will recollect with nostalgia the extraordinary quality of the Israelis who led the country from its...
Symposium: Islam, British Society & The Terrorist Threat The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism The Hebrew University of Jerusalem I am attaching a transcript of my remarks at the Symposium “Islam, British Society & the Terrorist Threat” which took place on...
Weakness fosters anti-Semitism One would have hoped that by the 21st century it would be history, but anti-Semitism today has achieved what British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has described as “global tsunami” proportions. Clearly we are destined to remain “the...
A response to Al Jazeera There is no disputing that at every level we are losing the global war of ideas. Despite clear evidence that fanatical Islamic fundamentalism threatens the basic fabric of Western civilization, Israel, and by extension the Jewish people, are now...
