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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. Franz Kafka |
Israel Singer (born 1943, in New York City) was secretary general of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) from 2001 to 2007.
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Singer grew up in Brooklyn, the son of Austrian refugees. He taught political science and political theories in New York and at the Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
In 1987, WJC leaders Israel Singer and Elan Steinberg warned "...Austrians that if they elected a former Nazi as president they would experience six difficult years." This was perceived as a threat against all Austrians.
In 1996, the Reuters news agency reported that at a meeting of the WJC congress in Buenos Aires, Singer said "[m]ore than three million Jews died in Poland and the Polish people are not going to be the heirs of the Polish Jews. We are never going to allow this.... They're gonna hear from us until Poland freezes over again. If Poland does not satisfy Jewish claims it will be publicly attacked and humiliated." This was perceived as another threat, but this time against Poland.
Singer has been an activist and advocate on behalf of the victims of the Holocaust. As chairman of the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO), he managed efforts to compensate Holocaust survivors monetarily. He also negotiated with Germany and Austria about annuities and compensation for survivors.
In October 2001, he was appointed chairman of the World Jewish Congress (WJC). In 2002 he was elected president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, the "Claims Conference". In June 2002 he was appointed chairman of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC).
On March 14, 2007 Singer was dismissed by the president of the WJC Edgar M. Bronfman, amid accusations of embezzlement of funds. The claims, however, were never proven true.
Israel Singer is a co-founder of Yahad in unum, an organization founded by priest Patrick Desbois which is dedicated to research on the "Holocaust by bullets".
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The Holocaust Industry, by Norman G. Finkelstein. The Last Deposit and Swiss Banks and Jewish Souls, by Itamar Levin, Natasha Dornberg (trans.) Foreword by Edgar Bronfman and Israel Singer. Swiss Banks and Jewish Souls, by Gregg J. Rickman.
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