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Confronting History's Longest Hatred
(Washington Post) Rabbi Abraham Cooper - The last aging survivors of Auschwitz see everywhere evidence that virulent Jew-hatred did not die with Hitler. There's a campaign to scrap International Holocaust Memorial Day (Jan. 27) and merge it with a commemoration for victims of communism. When an Israeli medical team raced half way around the world to save over 1,000 earthquake victims, a YouTube video warned Haitians the real purpose of the field hospital was to steal their body parts. Meanwhile, the Turkish blockbuster film "Valley of Wolves" depicts the Iraq War as a conspiracy by Israelis and Americans to harvest organs of Iraqi women and children. Imagine the implications of a UK jury's recent decision - with the encouragement of the judge - to acquit five defendants who proudly admitted sabotaging a factory filling a military equipment order from Israel. Or in Montreal, where a local Muslim group sought volunteers to compile lists of Jewish university faculty members with any links to Israel. How did the UN respond to the genocidal rants of the Iranian President? By inviting him to keynote the UN Human Rights Summit in Geneva. The writer is associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.