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Robert Lantos: The true face of BDS

The BDS movement has hijacked the progressive narrative and the hearts and minds of the socially conscious, including Jewish youth.

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Canadian filmmaker Robert Lantos spoke May 1 in Toronto, where he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Haifa. Here is an abridged version of his speech.

We live in dangerous times. As Jews, we face two concurrent wars: the war of rockets and guns, fought almost continuously on Israel’s borders — and the war of words, spearheaded by the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, in tandem with its bred-in-Canada campus sibling, the annual festival of hate known as Israel Apartheid Week. Israel has never been defeated on the battlefield, and she must never be. But our enemies have devised other weapons, more sophisticated than rockets, with which to weaken her through isolation and vilification via the spreading of a false narrative that has become gospel in fashionable, politically correct circles.

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Tom Lantos, friend of Taiwan, dies of cancer, aged 79

Tom Lantos, a Hungarian born-Holocaust survivor and veteran Democratic congressman who chaired the US House Foreign Affairs committee, died yesterday, a month after announcing he had cancer.

California representative Lantos, who was 79, and an outspoken campaigner for human rights, died yesterday morning, his spokeswoman Lynne Weil said.

Born in Budapest to a Jewish family in February 1928, Lantos was 16 when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary.

As a teenager, he was a member of the anti-Nazi resistance, and later of the anti-Communist student movement.

Since the Democrats regained control of Congress in 2006 elections, Lantos has used his committee to launch strident appeals for greater US action on human rights in China, Darfur, Myanmar and Russia.

Under his stewardship, the committee voted in October to describe the mass slaughter of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as "genocide" -- plunging US relations with Turkey into crisis.

A regular visitor to Taiwan, Lantos was a longtime acquaintance

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Tom Lantos

American politician (1928-2008)

The native form of this personal name is Lantos Tamás Péter. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Tom Lantos

In office January 3, 2007 – February 11, 2008
Preceded by	Henry Hyde
Succeeded by	Howard Berman
In office January 3, 1981 – February 11, 2008
Preceded by	William Royer
Succeeded by	Jackie Speier
Constituency	11th district(1981–1993) 12th district(1993–2008)
Born	Tamás Péter Lantos (1928-02-01)February 1, 1928 Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Died	February 11, 2008(2008-02-11) (aged 80) Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Annette Tillemann (m. 1950)
Children	2 daughters, including Katrina Swett
Relatives	Tomicah Tillemann (grandson) Levi Tillemann (grandson) Charity Tillemann-Dick (granddaughter)
Education	Eötvös Loránd University University of Washington, Seattle (BA, MA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD)

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