RMTM Front Lines Jewish Renaissance Media DETROIT JEWISH NEWS theJEWISHNEWS.com Advertising Sales Publisher/President Arthur M. Horwitz ahorwitz@renmedia.us Sales Director: Keith Farber kfarber@renmedia.us Account Executives: Ann G. Abrams, Jan Haskell, Melissa Litvin, Heidi Martin, Rick Nessel, Dharlene Norris Senior Sales Assistant: Kim Metzger Sukkot's Message Robert Sklar Editor T he festival of Sukkot, replete with the etrog and the lulav, begins at sundown Wednesday, Sept. 22, and lasts seven days. During this z'man simchataynu, the "time of our gladness," American Jews will take stock of how the ancient Israelites lived in huts while wandering in the desert before reach- ing the Promised Land. Let us celebrate our people's hardiness by rejecting the anti-Jewish lie that Israeli policies are the impetus behind the rising tide of world- wide anti-Semitism. The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights watchdog organization, makes the case well: Hatred of Jews permeated the world long before the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. Consider the Inquisition in Spain, the pogroms in Russia or the Holocaust in Europe, let alone the anti- Jewish fervor before those atrocities. Were Israel not shaped from the ashes of Hitler's fury, anti-Semitism would still be rearing its ugly head. "For example," the Simon Wiesenthal Center relates, "40 percent of Europeans blame the recent global economic crisis on 'Jews having too much economic power, a canard that has nothing to do with Israel:' ! Business Offices The unsettled nature of Israeli- Palestinian relations exacerbates Muslim-Jewish tensions, but it alone isn't behind the spread of hatred of Jews, either. In its enlightening pamphlet "2010 Top Ten Anti-Israel Lies:' the Simon Wiesenthal Center underscores it was during World War II that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a raging anti- Semite, helped the Nazis organize the 13th SS Division, made up of Muslims. Furthermore, the Koran, despite respect- ful references to Jewish patriarchs and prophets, boasts venomous anti-Semitic stereotypes widely cited by Islamists, the radical wing of Islam, to justify murder- ing Jews. The Simon Wiesenthal Center con- cludes that Israel's disappearance, which would put a smile on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, "would only further embolden violent Jew-haters everywhere." I agree. The backdrop of Sukkot and the uplift- ing story of Jewish survival through the mists of time provide the perfect back- drop for hardening our resolve to fight anti-Semitic acts wherever they arise. Chag sukkot sameach — wishing you and your family a happy holiday ripe with personal well being and also world peace. 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