Prof. Robert Wistrich died last week in Rome, before meeting members of the Italian Parliament.

He delivered this speech at the International Forum Against Anti-semitism just before leaving Israel, where he focuses attention on the PLO and the Palestinian Authority as responsible for the spread of current anti-semitism in the world. Shortly after his speech, I met with Professor Wistrich at his request to provide him with updated material from our agency concerning the anti-semitic new textbooks used by the PA for his use at the Italian Parliament

Prof. Wistrich never had the chance to present this material to the Italian law makers. He was struck down by a heart attack en route to that presentation.

These are the sources we printed out for Prof. Wistrich to peruse during his flight:

RESEARCH ON  UNRWA/PA CURRICULUM

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  1. i listened to the entire speech david- you have been instrumental in keeping me informed. i would have wished to meet him as you did.
    and yet your humble giving ways both you and sara and your family-i know im priviledgd to say- my friends. julia
    i have been priviledged in my lifetime to have met many well known people- not all are as dedicated or sincere as you and sara.
    my heart is in tears about rabbi and vicky.
    the post article friday- by his rabbi friend expressed it so well.
    in life somehow the great are humble and do much good. i can attest to that. julia

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David Bedein
David Bedein is an MSW community organizer and an investigative journalist.   In 1987, Bedein established the Israel Resource News Agency at Beit Agron to accompany foreign journalists in their coverage of Israel, to balance the media lobbies established by the PLO and their allies.   Mr. Bedein has reported for news outlets such as CNN Radio, Makor Rishon, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, BBC and The Jerusalem Post, For four years, Mr. Bedein acted as the Middle East correspondent for The Philadelphia Bulletin, writing 1,062 articles until the newspaper ceased operation in 2010. Bedein has covered breaking Middle East negotiations in Oslo, Ottawa, Shepherdstown, The Wye Plantation, Annapolis, Geneva, Nicosia, Washington, D.C., London, Bonn, and Vienna. Bedein has overseen investigative studies of the Palestinian Authority, the Expulsion Process from Gush Katif and Samaria, The Peres Center for Peace, Peace Now, The International Center for Economic Cooperation of Yossi Beilin, the ISM, Adalah, and the New Israel Fund.   Since 2005, Bedein has also served as Director of the Center for Near East Policy Research.   A focus of the center's investigations is The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). In that context, Bedein authored Roadblock to Peace: How the UN Perpetuates the Arab-Israeli Conflict - UNRWA Policies Reconsidered, which caps Bedein's 28 years of investigations of UNRWA. The Center for Near East Policy Research has been instrumental in reaching elected officials, decision makers and journalists, commissioning studies, reports, news stories and films. In 2009, the center began decided to produce short movies, in addition to monographs, to film every aspect of UNRWA education in a clear and cogent fashion.   The center has so far produced seven short documentary pieces n UNRWA which have received international acclaim and recognition, showing how which UNRWA promotes anti-Semitism and incitement to violence in their education'   In sum, Bedein has pioneered The UNRWA Reform Initiative, a strategy which calls for donor nations to insist on reasonable reforms of UNRWA. Bedein and his team of experts provide timely briefings to members to legislative bodies world wide, bringing the results of his investigations to donor nations, while demanding reforms based on transparency, refugee resettlement and the demand that terrorists be removed from the UNRWA schools and UNRWA payroll.   Bedein's work can be found at: www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com and www.cfnepr.com. A new site,unrwa-monitor.com, will be launched very soon.

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