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activities:' the OU said in a statement.
The JCPA, a consensus-driven umbrella
group for Jewish policy organizations,
recognized such views in its statement.
"Some Jewish groups feel that the
Free Exercise rights of religious groups
should include a right to admit or hire
without regard to anti-discrimina-
tion provisions," it said. "JCPA deeply
respects this concern, as well as a
strong application of the Free Exercise
clause. However, JCPA also believes
where government funds are involved,
we are called to ensure a non-discrimi-
natory educational environment."
The rulings came on the last day of this
Supreme Court session, and the last day
that Justice John Paul Stevens, 90, would
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RESIDENTIAL

„July 8 2010

Answering
Israel's Critics

The Charge
Earlier this month, Libby Davies, a
leader of the National Democratic
party (NDP) in Canada, said Israel
has maintained an occupation
since 1948, the longest (military)
occupation in the world.

The Answer
Davies knows that Israel was cre-
ated by the United Nations in 1948,
and became independent after
withstanding attacks by several
Arab forces in the 1948-49 Arab-
Israeli war. She later apologized for
the remarks.

— Allan Gale

Jewish Community Relations Council

of Metropolitan Detroit

0 Jewish Renaissance Media • July 8, 2010

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U.S. Aids Shoah Memorial
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The United
States pledged $15 million to preserve
the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp
memorial. Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton announced the five-
year pledge Saturday during a visit to
Poland.
The pledge, subject to congressional
approval, "illustrates the significance
of the Auschwitz-Birkenau site, helps
commemorate the 1.1 million victims
who perished there and demonstrates
America's commitment to Holocaust
education, remembrance and research','
a State Department statement said.
The money will help fund a more
than $150 million endowment aimed
at preserving the site, which has fallen
into disrepair.
"The United States strongly encour-
ages other nations who have not already
done so to follow suit and to contribute
to the Auschwitz-Birkenau fund to
preserve the site for future generations:'
the statement said. "The preserva-
tion and continuation of Auschwitz-
Birkenau is essential so that future
generations can visit and understand
how the world can never again allow a
place of such hatred and persecution to
exist. It is also an important educational
tool to show those who doubt that the
Holocaust ever existed that indeed,
tragically, it did."
More than 1 million people visit the
site each year to commemorate the
Holocaust.
Clinton, who was in Poland to sign
a missile defense pact, made the
announcement at the Schindler Factory
Museum in Krakow. The museum
is dedicated to Oskar Schindler, the
German entrepreneur who saved 1,300
Jews during the war.

Ban Upheld On Peaceful' Aid
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The U.S.
Supreme Court upheld a federal law for-
bidding support for peaceful activities
to organizations considered terrorist.
In the case of Holder v. Humanitarian
Law Project, the court on June 21 ruled
6-3 that Congress and the executive
branch could bar all "material sup-
port': including training and advice of a
peaceful and legal nature, to organiza-
tions considered terrorist under the
Patriot Act. The court said the action
does not violate the free speech rights
of the donors.
The law has been invoked about 150
times since the 9-11 attacks in 2001,
but rarely for humanitarian assistance.
The case was brought by aid groups
that trained a Kurdish organization in
Turkey on how to bring human rights
complaints to the United Nations and
offered assistance in peace negotiations,
according to the Washington Post.
The Anti-Defamation League wel-
comed the ruling; it had filed a brief in
the case.
One cannot provide 'humanitar-
ian' support in the form of training,
expert advice or assistance, service, and
personnel to a terrorist organization
without helping their bottom line and
facilitating violence, destruction and
murder': Robert Sugarman, the ADL's
national chair, and Abraham Foxman,
its national director, said in a statement
issued Monday following the ruling.
Any suggestion to the contrary is naive
and an example of wishful thinking
that can have deadly consequences."

