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Last night I got back from the AIPAC high school summit. I went with 7 other kids from Milken, 7 out of the 8 (me included) went on TIF.

Over all it was a fun experience, I liked spending time with people that I have not spent time with since Israel and I also really enjoyed the free Hadag Nachash that AIPAC arranged for us.

Besides spending time with TIF people and Hadag Nachash, most of the time was spent learning about AIPAC and “lobbying” for Israel. Learning about AIPAC was fun and important, but the whole “lobbying” thing was a waste of time. We went to see one of congressman Waxman’s staff, it was kind of point less since she knew much more about AIPAC and US Israel realtions than most of the people “teaching” us about this stuff at the conference.

Around passover MTV aired two very good holocaust ads. They are here and here. Both of the ads are good at making people think.

It looks some anti-semites realised this too and modified parts of the ads to talk about the “holocaust” of the palestinians and to claim that the real holocaust never happened. I won’t link to these videos but if you use the related video feature on YouTube you should find them.

This got me thinking and I searched holocaust on YouTube, I have never seen such anti-semitism in my life. It really made me think about how many people out there who would like me dead. It also made me wonder why YouTube has done nothing about this. Youtube’s terms of use like Facebook’s state that it is forbidden to upload hateful and racist content, yet both of these sites have a lot of stuff against Jews and almost nothing up to refute the hate and obvious lies. Also both of these sites do almost nothing to remove anti-semitic content and they do a lot to remove anything that might be even remotely considered to be hinting at the fact that the palestinian Arabs are wrong. It is despicable.

Look at the Arab protest, then watch the Jewish response…
(this video is from march 2008, the Muslims are supporting this terrorist attack and the death of Jews, the Jews are singing songs of peace)

Now that google translate has Hebrew, I can’t help but feel that the other Jewish languages must feel left out. However here is a list of good resources for other Jewish languages.

Yiddish

There is a good Yiddish/English dictionary here.

There is a Yiddish wikipedia here.

Ladino

There is a good Ladino dictionary here.

Dzhidi

Unfortunately there is not a lot about Dzhidi on the Internet, however wikipedia does have an article about it here.

For the longest time the best online Hebrew translator was milon.co.il. Unfortunaly milon.co.il can only translate one word at a time. However it looks like Google Translator now works for Hebrew!!! Let the homework cheating help commence.