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Planting Flowers in Auschwitz

Sara Greenberg — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:48:19 +0000

“Who do you blame – the bystanders or the perpetrators?” a small boy with glasses at the back of the room asked. As a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, I had just finished presenting my grandparents’ stories to a classroom of 7th graders in Harlem. I was used to getting questions about how my grandfather was [...]

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The UN’s deadly silence on incitement

Sara Greenberg — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:38:00 +0000

“Terrorism does not begin with an attack on a bus or a raid on a village,” said Ambassador Ron Prosor last week at the United Nations headquarters in New York, where he addressed a meeting convened to propose an international convention for the prevention of incitement to terror. “That is how terrorism ends.” As Prosor [...]

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Clear moral lines: barring BDS from Hillel

Sara Greenberg — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:48:19 +0000

When demonstrators in Antwerp chant “Hamas, Hamas, all Jews to the gas” and when Jewish children are shot and killed in Toulouse in front of a Jewish school, most of the world recognizes these acts as anti-Semitism. Unfortunately, it is the more subtle, nuanced manifestations of racism and anti-Semitism that often get overlooked. Natan Sharansky [...]

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