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May 12, 2009 | 4:14 pm

Using Anne Frank during Palestinian Awareness Week

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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Source: OC Independent Task Force on Anti-Semitism

Last year I attended Palestinian Awareness Week at UC Irvine. That’s where this “Death to Apartheid” banner appeared. The series of events, for which speakers like Amir Abdel Malik Ali and Norman Finkelstein are brought in, can be categorized as pseudo-academic Israel bashing.

Sadly, the real issues that all Americans can be concerned with in the Palestinian territories get lost in the hyperbolic rhetoric of “Zio-Nazis” and “Fourth Reich.”

This photo, of what appears to be a large cardboard Israeli tank, includes a panel on “Fashion Sense” that shows Anne Frank smiling and wearing a red keffiyah beside these words:

The keffiyah (scarf in the picture) symbolizes freedom and solidarity for Palestine. “I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think ... peace and tranquility will return again”—Anne Frank.

The Orange County Independent Task Force on Anti-Semitism sent me an e-mail today saying the Muslim Student Union has achieved a “newer low ... by mocking Anne Frank.” They demand, as they have for more than a year, demanded UC Irvine Chancellor Michael Drake “unequivocally and unambiguously speak out against the hatred on his campus.”

Here was Drake’s response last spring at the Hillel Summit in Washington.

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The title of this years two week hate fest is: “Israel, the politics of Genocide, not as you have benignly refereed to it as: “Palestinian Awareness Week”. 

The use of likeness of Anne Frank to make the twisted point that Israel is committing “genocide”, by those calling for “martyrdom” and the destruction of the Jewish State is “a newer low”. 

http://octaskforce.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/a-newer-low-is-achieved-mocking-anne-franks-memory/

Your readers should also be made aware that one of the signatory’s to the Hillel press release, to which you refered, called UC Irvine a “Hotbed of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activism for the past seven years”. This   in a January 2009 email plea for community support,  following the Muslim Student Unions announcement of scheduled campus anti-Israel protests and hate speakers including Malik Ali (“we will fight you until we are martyred”)

http://octaskforce.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/huge-anti-israel-rally-at-uc-irvine-president-of-afi-uc-irvine-has-been-a-hotbed-for-anti-israel-and-anti-semitic-activism-over-the-past-seven-years-2/

In addition the Faculty adviser to Anteaters for Israel recently told us that a poll was taken in which half the respondents “felt Unsafe” on campus; all were female.

Chancellor Drake, while making broad general statements decrying anti-Semitism and hate speech, has yet to denounce the hate speakers or their sponsors by name. 

Ted Bleiweis
Executive Director

Orange County Independent Task Force on Anti-Semitism

OCTASKFORCE.ORG

Comment by Ted Bleiweis on 5/13/09 at 4:20 am

Anne Frank has become an icon of course, and using her image against the Jews is an especially offensive fraud. I just don’t see why this type of thing does not give you pause to realize that what what you call “the real issues that all Americans can be concerned with in the Palestinian territories” are fraudulent as well.

If the Jews and Arabs could switch places, i.e. given the land that the Palestinian Arabs occupy and the money and political support that they have received and continue to receive, Israel would be ten times stronger and richer than they are today, and would get ten times the criticism from antisemites for it as thanks. And the Arabs would have exactly the same or worse ‘real issues’ as they do today. Let’s use our common sense.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 5/13/09 at 4:52 pm

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