Dear John,
You have just one day left in 2019 to support the critically important work of EMET.
Just this month alone in a huge omniums spending bill, a Congressman whom we have worked with inserted language indicating that America has the right to withhold funding from any nation that refuses our extradition requests.
Why is this important? Because Ahlam Tamimi, the Hamas terrorist who was responsible for the heinous Sbarro Pizzeria bombing in August of 2001 has been “hiding in plain sight” in Jordan. She has been given “rock star status” as a result of her dastardly crimes that resulted in the murder of 15 innocent people, eight of them children. Among them were two Americans; Judith Greenbaum (31) and Malki Roth (15).
The US has requested Ms. Tamimi’s extradition and Jordan has refused, despite the fact that they have extradited 3 other, lesser known terrorists to our shores. If we enable Jordan to continue to harbor Ms. Tamimi, despite our extradition request, despite the fact that we give them $1.7 billion in foreign aid a year, we would be broadcasting that certain American lives are less valuable than others, and that we are turning a blind eye towards terrorism. What would this be telegraphing to the world about America’s resolve against radical Islamist terrorism?
EMET, more than any other organization, has been on Caption Hill for years, fighting for justice for American victims of Palestinian terrorism, particularly for justice for the families of Malki Roth and Judith Greenbaum.
Just this month, also, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order specifying that any university that traffics in Antisemitism could have their federal funding taken away from them. President Trump has decided to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of Antisemitism which includes, among other things, “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination.”
For years, EMET has been on Capitol Hill speaking with our representatives and with members of the administration, about the virulent and rabid Antisemitism on college campuses, and most particularly in our taxpayer funded, Middle East Studies Centers. In these departments, it has been virtually impossible for Jewish and Zionist students to survive in the classroom, many of which are run by virulently anti-Israel and Antisemitic university professors, who hide their age-old hatred behind a smokescreen of “academic freedom” or “first amendment rights,” while they teach a distorted, one-sided version of events in the Middle East.
Why is this important? Because this hatred of Jews and Israel has been going on much too long in the university classroom. It is no wonder that we are now experiencing a rapid and deadly rise of Antisemitism across the United States.
And this all begins with education. Our university professors have given an intellectual patina to the age-old virus of Antisemitism, and have been passing them down to the next generation for many years. And not only do they do this within their own university classrooms and community outreach seminars, but they do it through their teacher-training workshops for teachers of kindergarten through 12th grade, passing down this age-old hatred to our nation’s most vulnerable and impressionable young children.
We have got to stop this. And we have got to stop this right now.
EMET is not just a think tank, bringing the most valuable thinkers and scholars directly to Capitol Hill where they can make the most valuable impression. It is an Action tank.
We are young, lean and mean. And we get the job done.
That is why you could not do anything wiser with your charitable dollar than an investment in EMET.
An investment in EMET is an investment in the Truth.
And wishing all of you a very happy and healthy 2020, a year of more EMET successes to come.
Thank you very much,
Sarah N. Stern
Founder and President
Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET)
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