The value of Holocaust memoirs I have just finished reading yet another diatribe by a post-Zionist Israeli academic promoting the theme that the Holocaust was exploited by Zionists to create a Jewish state at the expense of the indigenous Arab inhabitants. To this day, goes the...
Norman Finkelstein’s world Historically, self-hating Jews besmirching their kinsmen have ranged from apostates in the Middle Ages to communists in Stalinist Russia. Today their successors have assumed pivotal roles in the global campaign to delegitimize Israel. The most...
Professors of hate The flow of new initiatives from academics throughout the world seeking to delegitimize Israel continues unabated. Now the emphasis is directed towards anti-Israeli boycotts as exemplified by the recent outrage from the British Association of...
Let’s rethink how we fight Jew-hatred There will be little cause for celebration at the Global Forum Against Anti-Semitism which opens Tuesday evening in Jerusalem. Partly that’s because in fighting Jew-hatred we have been misdirecting some of our energies. Having been involved in...
The UN - a home for the Jews? It has been somewhat bizarre to observe the recent stream of international and government-sponsored conferences dealing with anti-Semitism. Only six months ago most European governments were still indignantly denying the evidence of burgeoning...
Full circle in Berlin Two weeks ago in Berlin, where the Nazis launched the Final Solution, 600 delegates from 55 governments and NGOs met under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to review the alarming global upsurge of...
Moscow revisited While still a student, I was privileged to be recruited to the cause of Soviet Jewry by Shaul Avigur, the Israeli who laid the foundations for one of the most successful human rights campaigns in the 20th century. My involvement included lobbying...
Europe faces its present In 1970 an international conference on Soviet Jewry in Brussels became a turning point in the campaign to liberate Jews in the Soviet Union. Future historians may well conclude that the recent European Union-sponsored seminar on anti-Semitism, also...
The demonization of Israel and Anti-Semitism Paper presented to Global Conference on Anti-Semitism - Jerusalem, January 28, 2004. In a letter to an anti-Zionist, published in the Saturday Review, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate wrote: “… You declare, my friend, that you do not...
Confront the evil How appallingly mistaken we were. While hypnotizing ourselves into accepting “the irreversible peace process” we also deluded ourselves into believing that anti-Semites had become an extinct species. We failed to appreciate that after...
