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The Yale
Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism YIISA SEMINARS: Tuesday, September 23rd @ 5:00 PM Institute for Social & Policy Studies (ISPS), Room A-002 (77 Prospect St) “Contemporary Antisemitism: New Discourses, New Responses” Speaker: Mark Weitzman, Director, Task Force Against Hate, Simon Wiesenthal Center
Thursday, September 25th @ 4:15 PM Linsly Chittenden Hall, Room 101 (63 High Street) “The Naked Emperor and the First Blood Libel of the 21st Century: The Al Durah Affair and the Dysfunctions of the Mainstream Media” Speaker: Professor Richard Landes, Department of History, Boston University
YIISA SPECIAL EVENTS: Co-Sponsored YIISA Event Tuesday, September 23rd @ 9:00 AM – 1:30 PM The Hyatt Regency, 400 New Jersey Ave., N.W., Washington D.C. “Conference on State-Sanctioned Incitement to Genocide” Speakers: Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, architect of Dayton Accord on Bosnia Professor Payam Akhavan, former legal advisor to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda Salih Mahmud Osman, Member of Parliament-Sudan, human-rights advocate on Darfur Esther Mujawayo, Survivor of the Rwanda genocide in 1994, expert witness Professor Gregory Stanton, founder, Genocide Watch and the Cambodian Genocide Project; President, International Association of Genocide Scholars Professor Irwin Cotler, Member of Parliament-Canada, former Attorney General and Minister of Justice Professor Gregory Gordon, former Legal Officer, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, first post-Nuremberg Prosecutions for Incitement to Genocide Ambassador Dore Gold, former Israeli Ambassador to the UN Co-Sponsors: Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations & YIISA
SAVE THE DATE YIISA Director, Dr. Charles Small, will be interviewed by Wall Street Journal writer and editor, Bret Stephens. As Iran emerges as a regional power with a nuclear program that most experts agree includes a weapons component, it is a major exponent of genocidal anti-Semitism. The goal to wipe Israel off the map is an overt objective of radical Islam. What should be done to confront this threat, which is diametrically opposed to values of citizenship, human rights and basic notions of democracy? Monday, December 1st @ 8:15pm Buttenwieser Hall, Lexington Avenue and 92nd Street, New York City “Radical Islam and the Nuclear Bomb: Understanding Contemporary Genocidal Anti-Semitism” Sponsor: 92Y -- Please click here for more information.
LECTURES OF INTEREST Tuesday, September 23rd @ Noon – 1:20pm 8 Prospect Place, Room 119 “Hebrews, Jews and the American Republic” Speaker: Jim Sleeper Sponsor: MacMillan Center Initiative on Religion, Politics and Society Website: www.yale.edu/macmillan/rps
Friday, September 26th – Saturday, September 27th Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue “Reconfiguring a Region: Challenges and Prospects in the Middle East” Keynote Address: Robery Malley, International Crisis Group Also featuring: Featuring 25 leading scholars, diplomats, and policy analysts. Sponsor: Council on Middle East Studies Contact: cmes@yale.edu -- Please click here for a full program.
RELATED EVENT OF INTERST Thursday, October 2nd @ 8:00pm Davenport College, 248 York Street Performance by Mamak Khadem, one of Iran’s leading female singers Sponsor: Yale Persian Society and Davenport College Contact: ypsofficers@gmail.com -- Tickets $25, $15 for college students
VIDEOS Sarah Palin's pastor agrees that God punishes Jews who don't convert (SharonCobb Blog) - Palin was present during this sermon.
ARTICLES OF INTEREST IRAN IAEA info suggests Iran worked on nuclear missile (Associated Press) The U.N. nuclear monitoring agency shared new photos and documents purporting to show that Iran tried to refit its main long-distance missile to carry a nuclear payload, said diplomats who attended the meeting Tuesday. Responding to the presentation to the 35-nation board of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a senior U.S. envoy said the information was compelling evidence against the Islamic Republic. His Iranian counterpart said the material shown was fabricated. IAEA shows photos alleging Iran nuclear missile work (YNet) The UN nuclear watchdog showed documents and photographs on Tuesday suggesting Iran secretly tried to modify a missile cone to fit a nuclear bomb, diplomats said, and Tehran again dismissed the findings as forged. Ahmadinejad: Iran will support Hamas until collapse of Israel (Haaretz) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Friday to keep supporting the Palestinian militant group Hamas until the "collapse of Israel." The Iranian news agency Khabar quoted Ahmadinejad as telling Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh that Iran views the support of the Palestinian people as part of its religious and national duty and that Iran will stand behind the Palestinian nation "until the big victory feast which is the collapse of the Zionist regime." Berlusconi accuses Iran of "lunacy" on Israel (Reuters) Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi accused Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday of acting like a lunatic when it comes to Israel, and said the world needed to keep a close eye on him. "I think we must pay the utmost attention to the lunacy of someone who says, perhaps for internal reasons, that Israel must be wiped off the map," Berlusconi said to a Jewish organisation in Paris, where he was receiving an award. Israel Waging 'Secret War With Iran' (NY Sun) Israel and America are intensifying a clandestine war against Iran that has run hot and cold since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 but has grown more urgent as Iran races to obtain an atomic bomb. That is a central claim in a new book, "The Secret War with Iran," by an Israeli journalist, Ronen Bergman, who also details a series of mishaps during the past 2 1/2 years that have likely delayed Iran's efforts to go nuclear. Ahmadinejad says Israel won't survive (Associated Press) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out at Israel on Thursday, saying the Jewish state would not survive, even if it gave up land for a Palestinian state. He also dismissed allegations that his country is trying to make nuclear arms. Speaking to reporters in Tehran, the hard-line leader smirked at the former mantra of the Israeli right of a "Greater" Israel that would include land Palestinians want for a future state. EUROPE Antisemitism and Islamophobia rising across Europe, survey finds (Guardian)In contrast to the US and Britain where unfavourable opinion of Jews has been stable and low for several years at between 7 and 9%, the Pew Survey of Global Attitudes found that hostile attitudes to Jews were rising all across continental Europe from Russia and Poland in the east to Spain and France in the west. In meeting with French Jews, Pope condemns anti-Semitism (European Jewish Press) Pope Benedict XVI condemned all forms of anti-Semitism and called for the strengthening of relations between Christians and Jews, at a meeting Friday with French Jewish leaders in Paris. Italy: Criticism of Israel not necessarily anti-Semitism, says FM (Adnkronos) Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said on Wednesday that criticism of Israel should not be confused with anti-Semitism. He made the remarks while speaking at a summit titled "Israel, Europe and a new vision for the Middle East.” “There is a widespread anti-Semitism that unfortunately is confused with legitimate political criticism of Israel," said the Italian foreign minister. Romania to host regional conference on combating anti-Semitism (Financiarul) Romania's Foreign Ministry (MAE), in cooperation with the Elie Wiesel National Institute for Holocaust Studies and the Romanian National Defence College are holding today in Bucharest a regional conference on combating anti-Semitism. Romania is one of the main supporters of the idea of holding a conference on combating anti-Semitism, discrimination and intolerance, under the aegis of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Sir Paul: Terror Target (Daily Express) Sir Paul McCartney has been threatened that he will be the target of suicide bombers unless he abandons plans to play his first concert in Israel. Self-styled preacher of hate Omar Bakri claimed the former Beatle’s decision to take part in the Jewish state’s 60th anniversary celebrations had made him an enemy of all Muslims. NORTH AMERICA Yale students 'end' US-Israel relations An undergraduate debating society at Yale University has voted 44-25 in favor of ending America's "special relationship" with Israel. The vote at the Yale Political Union came after a three-hour debate between students and University of Chicago political science Prof. John Mearsheimer, who, with colleague Stephen Walt, has been a fierce advocate of upending the power of pro-Israel lobbyists in Washington. The vote follows similar, though more extreme resolutions, last year from Oxford University's student union against the influence of pro-Israel lobbyists.
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