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Holocaust scholars urge Obama to sanction countries hosting Bashir
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Monday, June 18, 2012
WASHINGTON (JTA) - A group of 70 Holocaust scholars has sent a letter
urging the Obama administration to support a congressional amendment
that would halt U.S. foreign assistance to countries that host visits
for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
The letter, sent June 14 and addressed to Atrocities Prevention Board
chief Samantha Power, highlights the recent amendment sponsored by
U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) adopted in the House Appropriations
Committee that would suspend non-humanitarian assistance to those
countries.
In the letter, which was sponsored by the David S. Wyman Institute for
Holocaust Studies, the signatories endorsed sanctions provisions in
the Wolf amendment, saying such sanctions `encourage America's allies
to step up their commitments to fight against perpetrators of
genocide.'
Rafael Medoff, director of the Wyman Institute, noted in a news
release that `halting aid to those who host Bashir would be the first
concrete step the U.S. has taken to isolate the Butcher of Darfur and
pave the way for his arrest. If the Obama administration is serious
about punishing perpetrators of genocide, it should support the Wolf
Amendment.'
Signatories of the letter included Rabbi Dr. Irving `Yitz' Greenberg,
a former chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; author Dr.
Daniel Goldhagen; the Rev. John Pawlikowski, who chairs the U.S.
Holocaust Museum's Subcommittee on Church Relations; and Deborah Dwork
of Clark University, founder of the first graduate program in
Holocaust and genocide studies in the United States.
From: Baghdasarian
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Monday, June 18, 2012
WASHINGTON (JTA) - A group of 70 Holocaust scholars has sent a letter
urging the Obama administration to support a congressional amendment
that would halt U.S. foreign assistance to countries that host visits
for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
The letter, sent June 14 and addressed to Atrocities Prevention Board
chief Samantha Power, highlights the recent amendment sponsored by
U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) adopted in the House Appropriations
Committee that would suspend non-humanitarian assistance to those
countries.
In the letter, which was sponsored by the David S. Wyman Institute for
Holocaust Studies, the signatories endorsed sanctions provisions in
the Wolf amendment, saying such sanctions `encourage America's allies
to step up their commitments to fight against perpetrators of
genocide.'
Rafael Medoff, director of the Wyman Institute, noted in a news
release that `halting aid to those who host Bashir would be the first
concrete step the U.S. has taken to isolate the Butcher of Darfur and
pave the way for his arrest. If the Obama administration is serious
about punishing perpetrators of genocide, it should support the Wolf
Amendment.'
Signatories of the letter included Rabbi Dr. Irving `Yitz' Greenberg,
a former chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; author Dr.
Daniel Goldhagen; the Rev. John Pawlikowski, who chairs the U.S.
Holocaust Museum's Subcommittee on Church Relations; and Deborah Dwork
of Clark University, founder of the first graduate program in
Holocaust and genocide studies in the United States.
From: Baghdasarian