The Anti-Defamation League and The Simon Wiesenthal Center have
weighed in on the decision by a journal at the Cardozo Law School, which
is affiliated with Yeshiva University, to honor former U.S. President
Jimmy Carter with its “International Advocate for Peace” award.
Abraham Foxman, the ADL’s National Director, told The Algemeiner: “The
students were wrong – they are entitled to be wrong and inappropriate
and we are entitled to say that honoring former President Carter is
wrong, especially for a Jewish institution…and indeed for any
institution. Desmond Tutu, who is more problematic than Jimmy Carter
when it comes to issues relating to Israel, was also honored. I
wouldn’t do it. I wouldn’t vote for it, I wouldn‘t support it. We
need to do a better job educating – wrongly stigmatizing Israel does
not help to resolve the problems. Hopefully if we instill those
values, future mistakes like this will not be made.”
Foxman added that “the University responded properly,” to the controversy.
Likewise Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal
Center, told The Algemeiner that the students did not “exercise due
diligence .”
“Had they done so,’ he added, “they would have discovered that Mr
Carter has never resolved his conflict with the Jewish state. His
serial bias against Israel is well-documented. That alone should have
led tomorrow’s lawyers, whatever their ethnicity or religion, to
conclude that President Carter should not receive such an honor.”
Many in the Jewish community have expressed their outrage at the
honor being bestowed upon Carter, who is widely considered to be a
hostile critic of the Jewish state having often referred to it as an
“apartheid state” and encouraging the U.S. to embrace terror group Hamas
as a legitimate peace partner. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz,
who wrote extensively about Carter in his book “The Case Against
Israel’s Enemies: Exposing Jimmy Carter and Others Who Stand in the Way
of Peace,” told The Algemeiner in an interview Monday that he
“can’t imagine a worse person to honor for conflict resolution. Here’s a
man who has engendered conflict wherever he goes. He has encouraged
terrorism by Hamas and Hezbollah. He was partly responsible for Yasser
Arafat turning down the Clinton-Barak peace offer.”
http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/04/10/adl-simon-wiesenthal-center-blast-cardozos-jimmy-carter-honor/
Thursday 11 April 2013
ADL, Simon Wiesenthal Center Blast Cardozo’s Jimmy Carter Honor
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