IMPACT: With Avi Abraham Benlolo
by Avi Abraham Benlolo
If you are interested in learning about world issues and gaining provocative and insightful analysis, IMPACT is for you. Over the last 30 years, I have travelled the world, met with Prime Ministers, Presidents and even Kings - As Founding Chairman and CEO of The Abraham Global Peace Initiative a multi-national organization, we promote Middle East peace through The Abraham Accords, counter Antisemitism; combat Holocaust denial; defend Israel and Canada and advance freedom, democracy and universal human rights.
Episodes
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The Friday Report October 14 2022
Kanye West - Seriously?
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The Friday Report on September 30 2022
Rising antisemitism on campus
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The Friday Report September 23,2022
Lots to discuss this week as we cover issues concerning the United Nations, uprising in Iran and Israel's exploding population growth!
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Its been a busy week at The Abraham Global Peace Initiative.
Antisemitism in Berlin. The 2nd Anniversary of the Abraham Accords. Antisemitism on campus and schools. So much more!
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The Friday Report - September 9 2022
Around the world this week, Israel's President Isaac Herzog travelled to Germany to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Munich massacre in which 11 Israeli Olympians were murdered by Palestinian terrorists. In addressing the German Parliament he said, "Even in our generation, even right...
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Do Russian Jewish People Owe their Freedom to Gorby?
"Let My People Go" - was the cry for freedom from the free-soviet-Jewry movement. I met the U.S.S.R.'s last President, Mikael Gorbachev nearly two decades ago. What were my impressions?
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The Friday Report - September 2, 2022
We should be wondering if it's hardly surprising then when a government consultant on anti-racism feels sufficiently comfortable to refer to Jewish people as, “loud-mouthed bags of human feces, aka the Jewish White Supremacists.” as reported in the press. So how do we confront bigots? With pride...
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A Conversation with Ahdeya Al Sayed, the first female president of the Bahraini Journalists Association
Ahdeya Al Sayed, is the first female President of the Bahrain Journalists Association. She won the 2019 Arab Female Journalist of the Year Award by the London Arabia Organisation for all her contributions towards the progress of her Arab media and promoting women's rights and empowerment. Al…
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Prisoner of Tehran: A Conversation with Marina Nemat
The 1979 Iranian Revolution ushered in a new era of Islamic fundamentalism, oppression and a murderous regime. Thinking the regime would quickly disappear, Marina Nemat became one of its many victims. At just 16 yeas old, Nemat was taken to the notorious Evin prison where she was tortured and...
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A Conversation with Jerusalem's Deputy Mayor, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum
Jerusalem's Deputy Mayor's Twitter handle says she is a Proud Zionist, a Feminist Advocate for Israel and the Co-Founded of the UAE-Israel Business Council. But Ms. Fleur Hassan-Nahoum is much more. She is an energetic powerhouse who is advancing Israel in business, standing up proudly for her...
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Human Rights and Accessibility: A Conversation with The Hon. David Onley, former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
Its 2020 yet we are still struggling as a society with the problem of equality of opportunity for persons with disability. Join me for a fascinating conversation with one of the world's top advocates for people with disability, the Honourable David Onley. People with disability, Mr. Onley says,...
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Saving the Uyghurs
On October 17, 2020, The Economist published a major feature about the plight of the Uyghurs. In its introduction, it said, "The first stories from Xinjiang were hard to believe. Surely the Chinese government was not running a gulag for Muslims? Surely Uyghurs were not being branded “extremists”...
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25 Years Later: Revisiting the Jewish World's JFK Moment
On September 13, 1993 - Yitzhak Rabin signed the Oslo Accords at the White House. On November 4th, 1995 he was murdered by an Israeli assassin. The peace process was dead and Yasser Arafat launched into a horrific campaign of suicide bombing attacks against Israel. How do we reconcile what…
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Interview with Ellie Cohanim: US Assistant Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism
US Special Envoy Ellie Cohanim was born in Iran. She fled to America with her family following the 1979 Revolution. Now she says the biggest state sponsor of terrorism and antisemitism is the Iranian Regime. She is determined to ensure the regime cannot fulfill its promise to march on Jerusalem…
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Optimism
In turbulent times, we all need hope. We can focus on the negativity or choose to champion positive improvements to the human condition. Among them are recent peace agreements in the Middle East. Its easy to disregard them among the noise pollution, but in an area of the world that has been…
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Coronasemitism: The coronavirus pandemic is bringing with it a new level of anti-Semitism
Even while the world grapples with the most pressing health issue of our time, there are those who are using the coronavirus pandemic as another excuse to attack the Jewish people, a phenomenon I am calling “coronasemitism.”
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Hunting War Criminals: Bringing Syrian War Criminals to Justice
Avi Benlolo, President and CEO of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies sits down with Dr. William Wiley, the Executive Director of the Commission for International Justice and Accountability to discuss his views on responses to the recent atrocities in Syria.
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What a 91 year old Holocaust survivor of Auschwitz thinks about the future of Holocaust education.
Avi Benlolo, President and CEO of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies sits down with Holocaust survivor Max Eisen to discuss a recent survey suggesting that 64% of students are less aware of the Holocaust.
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Attack on Historical Truth: Alternate versions of the Holocaust
Alternate reality can be entertaining. It may serve our alter-ego. This is a warning: the Road from revisionism to denial is very short.
About this show
If you are interested in learning about world issues and gaining provocative and insightful analysis, IMPACT is for you. Over the last 30 years, I have travelled the world, met with Prime Ministers, Presidents and even Kings - As Founding Chairman and CEO of The Abraham Global Peace Initiative a multi-national organization, we promote Middle East peace through The Abraham Accords, counter Antisemitism; combat Holocaust denial; defend Israel and Canada and advance freedom, democracy and universal human rights.
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