November 22, 2009
Touro College’s Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust hosted a panel discussion entitled A Paradigm of UN Bias Against Israel: International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Touro College’s Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust hosted a panel discussion entitled A Paradigm of UN Bias Against Israel: International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on the occasion of the 2009 United Nations Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
Panel members were three distinguished scholars, activists, and human rights authorities: Ambassador Richard Schifter, who served as the Deputy U.S. Representative in the UN Security Council and U.S. Representative in the UN Human Rights Commission; Dr. Charles Asher Small, Director of the Yale Initiative for the Study of Anti-Semitism; and Jonathan Schanzer, Deputy Executive Director of the Jewish Policy Forum and author of several books including his most recent, Hamas vs Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine. The event, held at the Center for Jewish History, garnered an overflow crowd of 100 participants.