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Yad Vashem "Appalled" by University Presidents "Excusing" Calls for Genocide Against Jews
(Ha'aretz) Judy Maltz - Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, expressed "extreme alarm" on Wednesday at the refusal of leaders of elite U.S. universities to deem genocidal calls against Jews a violation of their codes of conduct at a congressional hearing on Tuesday. "Yad Vashem is appalled that leaders of elite academic institutions would use misleading contextualization to minimize and excuse calls for genocide of the Jews," said Chairman Dani Dayan. "The positions taken by the three university presidents in their testimonies highlight a basic ignorance of history, including the fact that the Holocaust did not start with ghettos or gas chambers, but with hateful antisemitic rhetoric, decrees and actions by senior academics, among other leaders of society. Any university, institution, or society that can 'contextualize' and excuse calls for genocide is doomed."