December 14, 2009
Boycott Against Israel at Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology Fails; but Hostile Feelings Still Remain
Aron,
I believe there are several reasons for this hatred against Israel and the Jews.
1. The "red" socialists have changed from supporting Israel in 1948 to a clear hatred against Israel; they misunderstand the situation in Israel and have developed a love for the so called "Palestinians".
2. The Norwegian media, first of all, NRK, the Norwegian state TV and radio channel have been sending out wrong information for many years, maybe 20 - 30 years. 70 % of the journalists in Norway are voting on the Left "red" side. Also the leaders in most of the biggest newspapers, TV and radio stations are on this same side and have a critical view of Israel. They focus nearly always on Israel as being the big bad, and the poor Palestinians as being the victims.
3. The big workers organization - LO - where mostly workers are members, is very pro Palestinian and they spread anti Israeli propaganda.
4. Among the 3 political parties who lead the nation - SV suggested a boycott against Israel. AP who is the biggest party is negative to Israel, but slightly more moderate, and the last party is neutral as far as I know.
5. One reason for this hatred of Israel is also that pro Palestinian organizations have had stands and meetings in The main Universities in Norway, Many open minded and honest students have been polluted by the anti Israel spirit, and really believe Israel is as full of hatred and that Hamas is the other way.
6. One other reason is that there is moving a lot of Muslims to Norway, many of them are negative to Israel. Palestinians receive Norwegian citizenship at once, because they are without a state.
7. There are also Palestine support organizations in Norway who work for the "Palestinians".
8. One other reason is that even if there are many Israel friends in Norway, we are not so good about writing in newspapers and fighting for the truth.. It is a spiritually fight, One who travel around in Norway and speaks the truth have received killing threats.. His name is Arid Bentsen, Others are also speaking the truth, but most of the young people in Norway do not hear their voice, and they believe the lies.
I am really ashamed for what we in the Christian countries have done and are doing against G-d's people.
Keep up your good work, and have å Chanukah full of shalom.
Greetings from
Geir
Norway
December 13, 2009
Dear mister Hier,
Again, many thanks for your visit to the city of Amsterdam. Already for the third time, or is it the fourth, we have screened another brilliant movie from your Center.
This time about a seemingly minor topic, Jewish resistence against the Nazi's. Although many have heard about the uprise in the Ghetto of Warschau, the overall view is that Jews have let themselves been taken away as mere sheep. This movie, which shows over six examples, well documented, proves that the general view is nothing but a generalisation. That there is more truth out there. An important message to Jews as well as non-Jews alike. Especially in times like these, where a third generation after the war is brought up with this unbrave and to some extend unsatisfying image and where a new wave of holocaust denial has become increasingly salonfahig.
It is in this context, and in the year after the screenings of Defiance and Inglorious Bastards, that this film takes in an important role in the lives of Jews, especially on the European hardland.
With your help we have again reached people who will spread the message of your founder and organization, we will continue to spread the lesson's of our past.
All the best,
Nathan Bouscher
www.gezelligjoods.nl
December 13, 2009
Chabad Rabbi Attacked in Vienna
Kislev 26, 5770, 13 December 09 04:13
by Hana Levi Julian
(Israelnationalnews.com)
A Muslim man attacked a Chabad rabbi Saturday night as he was conducting the annual ceremony to light the public Chanukah menorah in Stefenfaltz Square in the city of Vienna, Austria.
The attacker hurled himself at Rabbi Dov Gruzman, principal of the city’s Jewish school run by the Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement, and began punching him, a local resident told Arutz Sheva.
As the rabbi tried to hold off his attacker, the Muslim suddenly bit his victim, severing part of his finger in the process. The Muslim was caught and arrested by police, and was held for questioning. The rabbi was evacuated to the hospital where doctors rushed to reattach his finger.
Gruzman told Arutz Sheva that the Muslim had raced towards the entrance at the beginning of the ceremony and began to curse the Jews who were there and the Jewish people in general. “I tried to hold him off, to keep him away from the entrance and he bit me really hard, and that’s how he injured me,” he said.
The event itself did not discourage Rabbi Gruzman, and in fact strengthened his resolve. “We are glad that such an event occurred,” he said. “Today, because of what happened, we are planning [a much larger event]. We increased the number of sufganiot [Chanukah jelly doughnuts] from 50 to 700 – and this is our answer to the attack and to anti-Semitism.”
September 10, 2008
Film Screening
I HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN YOU: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF SIMON WIESENTHAL
Appalachian State University
Sponsor:
The Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies
Special thanks to Bonnie and Jamie Schaefer
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August 20, 2008
USC Removes Anti-Semitic Quote from Campus Website after Center Protest
The Simon Wiesenthal Center and campus outreach program, iACT@WIESENTHAL.COM, commended the University of Southern California and its Provost, C.L. Max Nikias, for ordering the removal of an anti-Semitic text from a website sponsored by the Muslim Student Association. The text, taken from Book 041 of the Hadith, a Muslim religious text, read:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.
In a letter to USC Trustee Alan Casden, who brought the website to the Provost on behalf of the Wiesenthal Center, Nikias wrote, "The passage in the Hadith …violates the USC Principals of Community and it has no place on a USC website." The website was hosted on the USC server.
"This is an important reminder that when free speech becomes a platform to encourage violence, then it has crossed the line," said Rabbi Aron Hier, Director of iAct@wiesenthal.com. "We commend USC for having the moral courage to stand up against those who hijack speech and religious freedoms and the goodwill of the campus community in order to spread a message of hate and extremist violence."
Rabbi Aron Hier and Reut Cohen, Senior Associate of the Horowitz Freedom Center, brought the matter to the attention of Mr. Casden.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations with over 400,000 member families in the United States. It is an NGO at international agencies including the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, and the Council of Europe.
February 6, 2008
Screening:
EVER AGAIN
Florida Atlantic University,
Boca Raton Campus - Live Oak Room
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Click here to read the Q&A from the event.
January 31, 2008
Screening:
EVER AGAIN
Vieve Gore Concert Hall
Westminster College
SLC Film Center
Kathryn Toll - 801.560.8014
Reagan Tolboe - 801.746.7000
Westminster College
Jeff Brown - 801.832.2900/801.694.6239
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The SLC Film Center, Westminster College and the United Jewish Federation of Utah are pleased to present a screening of EVER AGAIN
Film examines anti-Semitism - Deseret Morning News
Free for all: Best events this week that don't cost a dime - Salt Lake Tribune
Anti-Semitism Still Present Director Says- Daily Utah Chronicle
January 30, 2008
Screening:
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
Ecker Hill Middle School
2465 West Kilby Road
Park City, UT 84098
Joanna Charnes - js1602@comcast.net
Cindy Levine - cindy.levine@comcast.net
Click here to download the flyer.
January 29, 2008
Screening:
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
I.J. & Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center
Debbie Kesner Steinberg
801.598.0098
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November 17, 2007
Screening:
EVER AGAIN
Chabad - Amsterdam
Simon Wiesenthal Center Campus Outreach was proud to co-sponsor the ECJS's annual European Collegian New Year/Shabbat Experience, leading workshops focusing on Israel Advocacy, as well as showing the new film (see photo) I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal, to an audience of hundreds of college students.
Click here to read the letter of recommendation from ECJS Executive Director, R' Zevi Ives.
Click here to read the press article from Hamodia.
September 6, 2007
Film Screening & Q&A
EVER AGAIN
University of South Alabama
Sponsors:
Jewish Students of USA
Gulf Coast Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education
Congregation Ahavas Chesed
September 5, 2007
Film Screening & Q&A
EVER AGAIN
Rollins College - Orlando, Florida
Sponsors:
Rollins College Jewish Studies Program
Office of Multicultural Affairs
Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Central Florida
Hillel at Rollins
September 4, 2007
Film Screening & Q&A
EVER AGAIN
University of Memphis
Sponsors:
The University of Memphis
Bornblum Judaic Studies
Jewish Historical Society of Memphis & The Mid-South
August 29, 2007
Film Screening
EVER AGAIN
PENSACOLA JUNIOR COLLEGE
SWC Campus Outreach Director, Rabbi Aron Hier (pictured) introduced the film, Ever Again to a standing-room-only crowd of over 400 people packing the Hagler Auditorium on the Pensacola [Florida] Junior College Campus to discuss the growing level of anti-Semitism on America's campuses.
Click here to read the Pensacola News Journal story.
May 13, 2007
Alan Dershowitz: The Case for Peace
Lecture followed by Q&A moderated by Professor Larry Kramer, Dean, Stanford Law School
Stanford University
Co-sponsored by:
Hillel at Stanford
ASSU Speakers Bureau
Jewish Students Association
Stanford Israel Alliance
Israel Center of San Francisco
Jewish Community Relations Council
Hasbara Fellowships
Simon Wiesenthal Center
April 23, 2007
Co-Sponsored by Students for Israel & Hillel
Film Screening
SWC's Academy AwardTM winning film
The Long Way Home
Narrated by Morgan Freeman
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Read The Daily Northwestern's coverage of the event...
April 23, 2007
Film Screeing
Ever Again
University of California at Davis
Varsity Theater
Davis, California
Co-Sponsors:
Sacramento Jewish Community Relations Council
DSH JSU
Aggies for Israel
Stand With Us
April 19, 2007
Yom Hashoah Commemoration
Introduction and Q&A
Led By Rabbi Aron Hier,
Director, Campus Outreach
Co-Sponsored by:
Alpha Epsilon Pi — Emerson Department of Visual Arts — Imagine — Emerson Peace & Social Justice
Emerson College
Boston, MA 02116
From SWC's Film Division, Moriah Films
Unlikely Heroes
April 18, 2007
Yom Hashoah Commemoration
Introduction and Q&A Led By Rabbi Aron Hier,
Director, Campus Outreach
Wheaton College
Norton, MA 02776
From SWC's Film Division, Moriah Films
Unlikely Heroes
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