https://www.nhregister.com/opinion/article/Letter-to-the-Editor-Peace-award-timing-11316586.php
Letter to the Editor: 'Peace' award timing was 'repulsive show of anti-Semitism'
Published 2:09 pm EDT, Wednesday, May 3, 2017
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On April 23, the day the New Haven Jewish community observed Holocaust Remembrance Day — remembering the six million innocents who were murdered for no crime except for being Jewish — an event took place at Yale which was an insult to people of goodwill everywhere. Omar Barghouti, a founder of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanction (BDS) movement whose aim is the destruction of the Jewish state, was honored with a "peace" award at Yale.
The BDS movement's ultimate goal, as many of its founders happily proclaim, is the elimination of Israel and thus the murder of another six million Jews. Honoring a man like Barghouti with a peace prize is not just insulting to the Jewish community but to all who care about peace in the Middle East and to all people who care about tolerance and history. Honoring such a man on Holocaust Remembrance Day is not just an ignorant oversight by some zealous Palestinian advocates but a repulsive show of anti-Semitism.
— Elaine Albom Braffman