Why Clinton skirted the Anti-Semitism issue at the OIC—a theory

by Ron Kampeas
Capital J Blog
August 10, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1574/why-clinton-skirted-the-anti-semitism-issue

Excerpt:

I blogged about ten days ago about how, on July 15, Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke to the Organization of the Islamic Conference and brought up anti-Semitism -- as strictly a European problem.

I wondered why, considering the mission to Muslim lands the secretary of state's own envoy to combat anti-Semitism, Hannah Rosenthal, had just completed.

Robert C. Blitt, an associate professor of law at the University of Tennessee College of Law was in touch today -- and he is an expert on the very issue that framed Clinton's speech: The effort (squelched, for now) to include "defamation of religion" (in most cases, Islam) as a "rights" violation.

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