It is ironic indeed that in today's Persia, which we now call Iran, its current leaders follow in Haman's footsteps by expressing their own form of vicious anti-Semitism.
Lantos Swett compares Iran's leaders to Haman, highlighting their anti-Semitic rhetoric.
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It offends me that as a result of exercising my right to free speech by writing a book, it has been necessary to take these steps to protect myself from an authoritarian foreign power.
I think that it is a very flimsy excuse for not funding technologies that enable vast numbers of people to access the internet freely.
We cannot go back. After what happened to us, after the way we saw our neighbors, neighbors going back generation upon generation, either turn against us or fail to defend us in any meaningful way, we cannot rebuild our lives there.
We are concerned that the designations that have been made in the past simply become... part of the wallpaper that nobody pays attention to.