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The Yale
Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism SAVE THE DATE YIISA Director, Dr. Charles Small, will engage in a conversation with Wall Street Journal writer and editor, Bret Stephens. 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” Location: 92Y, Manhattan -- Please click here for more information.
LECTURES OF INTEREST Castle Lectures Sterling Law Building Auditorium, 127 Wall Street Speaker: Juergen Habermas, Professor of Philosophy, University of Frankfurt Monday, October 6th from 4:00pm – 5:30pm “The Controversy Over the Secularziation Hypothesis and the Role of Religion in a Post-Secular Society” Tuesday, October 7th from 4:00pm – 5:30pm “The Secular Level of Intercultural Communication in and Emergent, Multicultural World Society” Monday, October 13th from 4:00pm – 5:30pm “On the Self-Understanding of Secular Reason” Sponsor: Ethics, Politics and Economics Department Contact: david.leslie@yale.edu -- Please click here for a full program.
Thursday, October 9th @ 1:30pm “The East Pakistan Secession, Genocide, and the UN, 1971 - 1973” Institute for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), 77 Prospect Street, Room B012 Speaker: Dr. A. Dirk Moses, Department of History, University of Sydney Sponsor: Genocide Studies Contact: marie.silvestri@yale.edu – Please click here for more information.
IRAN Talk Isn't Cheap With Iran Amid the issue of American dialogue with Iran featured prominently in Friday's presidential debate, few questions were raised about the possible benefits of U.S.-Iranian talks as well as the potential pitfalls. What, for example, would be the talks' objectives -- to moderate Iranian behavior and renew Iranian-American relations or, more broadly, to recognize a new strategic order in the Middle East? What concessions might the Iranians seek from the U.S., and which ones would America be prepared to yield? And finally, how would the discussions affect America's allies in the region, its forces in Iraq, and its strategic standing world-wide? House approves tougher sanctions on Iran (AP) Asserting the need to force Iran's hand on its nuclear weapons program and its support of international terrorism, the House on Friday moved to reinforce sanctions against the Tehran government. The House legislation, approved on a voice vote, would also authorize state and local governments to divest the assets of their pension funds and investments in companies that have invested more than $20 million in Iran's oil industry. Khamenei: Iran won't let Palestinians be alone (International Herald Tribune) Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that Iran will stand beside the Hamas government in Gaza and that Israel is weakening and on the path to eventual destruction, state television reported. Khamenei, who has the final say on all state matters, called Hamas' prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, a "mujahed", or holy warrior, saying "the Iranian nation will never let you be alone." US says five Iranian proxy insurgents held in Iraq (American Free Press) American troops in the Iraqi capital on Saturday arrested five suspected insurgents from a group acting as proxies of Iran, the US military said in a statement. The five men were detained without incident at three separate locations in Baghdad, the statement said, adding that they were all members of an organisation known as Kata'ib Hezbollah. World should confront Iran's Ahmadinejad (Detroit News) Using "Zionist" as a code word, Ahmadinejad accused Jews of controlling "financial and monetary centers" who "deceitfully" manipulate Americans, and he labeled them "murderers." Such classic anti-Semitic canards are especially worrisome in light of Ahmadinejad's declared genocidal intent -- demonizing Israel and predicting its destruction, calling Jews satanic enemies of mankind, arming Israel's genocidal terrorist enemies Hezbollah and Hamas and developing nuclear weapons for Iran. The United Nations Convention against Genocide was adopted following the defeat of Nazism, and it is time for the world to use it to confront Ahmadinejad's agenda. Iran's UN speech 'blatant anti-Semitism' – Germany (Reuters) Germany's foreign minister on Friday blasted the Iranian president's speech at the U.N. General Assembly as "blatant anti-Semitism" and urged the 192 U.N. member states to join in condemning it. "The statements of the Iranian president about Israel are irresponsible and unacceptable," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told the General Assembly. Ahmadinejad's evil words aren't just talk (Los Angeles Times) Tim Rutten writes, “We Americans are accustomed to regarding political rhetoric much as Dr. Johnson did epitaphs. We don't expect public men or women to speak the truth from public platforms. When it comes to our own parochial affairs, there's probably a bit of weary realism in that. However, this casual expectation of rhetorical hypocrisy has inhibited from the start our ability to recognize and deal with the threat posed by Islamist radicalism.” My Dinner With Ahmadinejad (Wall Street Journal) Farnaz Fassihi describes her experience at a dinner hosted by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with a guest list of all Iranian-Americans living in the tri-state area. “The banquet hall of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in mid-town Manhattan had the feel of an extravagant Persian wedding on Wednesday night. A crowd of over one thousand guests, dressed in formal attire, sat around tightly packed tables munching on Iranian delicacies and chit-chatting casually in Farsi.” MIDDLE EAST Islamists plunder weapons from hijacked ship in Somalia (Times Online) Islamist extremists prepared last night to unload rocket-propelled grenades and anti-aircraft guns from a Ukrainian freighter seized by Somali pirates even as foreign warships surrounded the vessel. A US destroyer and submarine from an international taskforce set up to patrol the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean and two European-flagged ships were reported to be tracking the freighter that had anchored off the southern Somali coast. Ahmadinejad: 'If [The Zionists] Themselves Do Not Wrap Up Zionism... The Peoples Will Wipe These Germs of Corruption Off the Face of the Earth' (Middle East Media Research Institute) Excerpts from statements by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The statements aired on IRINN, the Iranian News Channel, on September 18 and 23, 2008. Iran's Revolutionary Guards - A Rogue Outfit? (Middle East Quarterly) There is a tendency in Western capitals to dismiss adversarial Iranian behavior as the work of rogue regime factions, which are not representative of Tehran's true intentions. Following a Baghdad press conference providing evidence of Iranian weapons shipments to Iraq, U.S. officials raised doubts about Iran's actual culpability. NORTH AMERICA NY judge: PLO can't disguise terror as war (Washington Post) The Palestine Liberation Organization can't win dismissal of a lawsuit by victims of bombings in Israel by claiming the attacks were acts of war rather than terrorism, a judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge George Daniels said the 2004 lawsuit on behalf of victims and their families can proceed toward trial. It seeks up to $3 billion in damages from attacks between January 2001 and February 2004. Army Private Subjected to Anti-Semitic Attacks Brutally Beaten By Soldiers (The Public Record) A U.S. Army soldier was brutally beaten by other soldiers in his platoon earlier this month following two incidents in which a drill sergeants allegedly used anti-Semitic slurs to address the soldier. Pvt. Michael Handman, 20, who has just completed his fifth week of basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, was recently released from a hospital where he was treated for a concussion, facial wounds, and severe oral injuries following the attack, according to the boy’s father, Jonathan Handman. The 'new' anti-Semitism creeps on college campuses (San Gabriel Valley Tribune) In an op-ed, Loretta Schertz Keller explores, “What Is anti-Semitism, and how does it differ from the so-called "new anti-Semitism" that's currently proliferating on the country's college campuses? Is being anti-Israel the same as being anti-Semitic? Does constitutionally protected free speech cover hate speech too?” Artist alleges anti-Semitism in painting attack (The Suburban) St. Laurent artist Helena Aloun charges that her vandalized art work of a Star of David a week ago Monday was perpetrated as an attack on a Jewish symbol. The Canadian Campus Scene (Institute for Global Jewish Affairs)A number of North American and European universities have been far from innocent bystanders in a politically motivated, disingenuous debate taking place on campus that denies the authenticity of the Holocaust. A hesitation to act is also evident when openly anti-Semitic material is disseminated on campus grounds, or flyers are posted describing the Middle East conflict in the most repugnant anti-Israeli terms. Economic meltdown brings out anti-Semitism (Associated Press) The economic meltdown has brought an upsurge in anti-Semitism, says a prominent Jewish leader. Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, says that what he calls “age-old canards” about Jews and money “are always just beneath the surface.” ADL sees surge of anti-Semitism following market crisis (Y Net News) The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issued a report on Thursday warning of a sharp resurgence of anti-Semitism in the wake of the financial crisis. Internet discussion boards and blogs dealing with the meltdown on Wall Street are being flooded with hate speech, ADL says. EUROPE Row over sheikh’s £2.5m LSE donation (Jewish Chronicle) The Students' Union of the London School of Economics has attacked the LSE's acceptance of a £2.5 million donation which will entail the naming of a new lecture theatre after the late ruler of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. Harvard University refused a similar donation in 2004 due to the alleged ties of the Sheikh Zayed Centre to antisemitism and Holocaust denial. Gang firebombs publisher of Allah novel, Martin Rynja (Times Online) Scotland Yard's counter-terrorist command yesterday foiled an alleged plot by Islamic extremists to kill the publisher of a forthcoming novel featuring sexual encounters between the Prophet Muhammad and his child bride. Early yesterday armed undercover officers arrested three men after a petrol bomb was pushed through the door of the north London home of the book’s publisher. Amnesty’s obsession with Israel (Y Net News) Even in a month when war raged in Georgia, Amnesty International continued to focus on the Gaza Strip, persistently blaming Israel for ongoing Palestinian hardship. Amnesty, in fact, issued harsher condemnations of Israel than of any party to the Georgian conflict. French panel to probe shooting of Palestinian boy Mohammed al-Dura in 2000 (Haaretz) A new French committee will investigate the death of the Palestinian boy Mohammed al-Dura, who, according to a French television report, was killed by Israel Defense Forces gunfire on September 30, 2000, the first day of the second intifada.
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