Kesher Talk

And now for something completely different: Good news. After many doom and gloom posts about antisemitism around the globe, it's time for some cheer.

Senator Rudy Boschwitz, head of the U.S. delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights, notes a small good sign:

For many years now a totally disproportionate amount of time at the UN has been spent bashing Israel. In an early speech I made here in Geneva, I asked delegations to recognize and support the changes taking place in the Mideast by moderating their remarks. For whatever reason that's what happened. Last year, speeches bashing Israel took 2 days. This year they totaled 30 minutes!

The Palestinian delegate gave a stunning "speech," the best and shortest of the many at this session of the CHR to date. His speech in its entirety was: "We extend our hand to our Israeli neighbors to live in peace." I went over and congratulated him.

On the occasion of a Kurd being appointed as interim president of Iraq, Neo-neocon notes that the Kurds have for the most part taken exception to Arab Jew-bashing, and in fact may be our closest genetic relatives. There's lots more; read the whole thing.

From a veteran Jewish journalist to an up and coming one:

Student politics at Wellington's Victoria University has changed beyond recognition since me, Kiwi Bob and David Bisman were part of the only actually successful Zionist conspiracy ever attempted, the move to smash the hard Left on New Zealand campuses, starting with Victoria. Actually the idea was simply to fight anti-semitism on that one campus, and we didn't expect to even win that one, but as it turned out the revolution was wildly popular, and suitable for export, and before we knew it, NZUSA had been eviscerated and a majority of student associations had non-Left executives. . . . But I visit the old student newspaper's site this week, and what do I see? The editor is a Jew?

The Jewish editor Emily Braunstein is the target of a campaign to dump her for presenting more than one side of an issue and refusing to print letters which call her derogatory names, but she says that "on campus these days, classical liberalism is "the new black," being wildly popular among students." Who woulda thunk it?

UPDATE: And anything that makes Saddam unhappy is a good thing.

posted by Judith @ 4/07/2005 02:50:00 PM