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Booby Prize
(Jerusalem Post) - Gerald M. Steinberg On Nov. 6, the Sydney Peace Foundation and Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (under the auspices of the University of Sydney) is planning to award its annual peace prize to Hanan Ashrawi, a prominent member and spokeswoman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The PLO continues to be involved directly in terror attacks against Israeli civilians, and Ashrawi plays a central role in attempting to justify this strategy. In protest against support of Palestinian propaganda in the name of peace, leading academics drafted a detailed petition including references to Ashrawi's speeches demonizing Israel, and gathered over 20,000 signatures calling on the premier of New South Wales and other officials to disassociate themselves from this travesty. Ashrawi will probably get the prize, but the efforts to demonize Israel were reversed, and the focus of the debate shifted to the Orwellian effort to turn Hanan Ashrawi's support for terror into peace.