Anne Bayefsky, the noted scholar and Senior Fellow of the Hudson Institute and a chronicler of U.N. history and the Holocaust, moderated a panel Tuesday in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day at the same U.N. hall in Geneva that is home to the Durban II "anti-racism"conference. The panel included law professor and Jimmy Carter antagonist Alan Dershowitz, actor/activist Jon Voight, human rights icons Elie Wiesel and Natan Sharansky and author Shelby Steele.
According to writer Roger L. Simon, founder of Pajamas Media, the panel was "electric," not surprising given the brain power and eloquence of the assembled panelists and Ms. Bayefsky. PJTV will have video of the panel in the days ahead.
In the meantime PJTV has some fascinating video of a conversation moderated by Mr. Simon today in which Professors Bayefsky and Dershowitz skewer the U.N. over its hypocritical and cynical obsession with Palestinian rights and Israeli "oppression." Click here--the video gets interesting at 4 minutes in.
While I don't share Prof. Dershowitz's generally liberal politics, I am forever grateful for his unflinching advocacy on behalf of Israel and the Jewish people and his willingness to take on those who would wish to do them harm. In a world of puny and shallow figures he is a giant.
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