Fiamma Nirenstein - Revision history

Matthew Pringle: Israeli Think Tanker category added

2012-11-14T14:20:21Z

Israeli Think Tanker category added

Jasmin Ramsey: /* Nirenstein and Caspian Makan */

2010-11-02T02:40:16Z

Nirenstein and Caspian Makan

Jasmin Ramsey: /* Nirenstein and Caspian Makan */

2010-11-02T02:33:55Z

Nirenstein and Caspian Makan

Jasmin Ramsey: /* Nirenstein and Caspian Makan */

2010-11-02T02:26:54Z

Nirenstein and Caspian Makan

Jasmin Ramsey: /* Iran */

2010-11-02T02:26:12Z

Iran

Jasmin Ramsey: /* Career */

2010-10-18T19:37:54Z

Career

Jasmin Ramsey: /* Iran */

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Iran

Jasmin Ramsey: /* Iran */

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Iran

Jasmin Ramsey: /* Islam */

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Islam

Jasmin Ramsey: /* International Law */

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International Law

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 ====Nirenstein and Caspian Makan====
-In March 2010 Nirenstein was photographed at a press conference with [[Caspian Makan]],<ref>Flickr, [http://www.flickr.com/photos/28849077@N00/4445327985/ "caspian fiamma parliament"], Flickr, accessed on 1 November 2010</ref> an Iranian exile who gained fame after he claimed that he was the fiancé of a Neda Agha-Soltan who was killed during a protest in Iran in June 2009. Makan visited Italy with Nirenstein's support to testify about human rights in Iran at a hearing in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.<ref>Italian Parliament, [http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.camera.it/453%3Fbollet%3D_dati/leg16/lavori/bollet/201003/0318/html/03&ei=93XPTO7wMIa0lQezr_HoBQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CDoQ7gEwCA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcaspian%2Bmakan%2Bnirenstein%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26biw%3D1275%26bih%3D576%26prmd%3Do "Reports of the Executive and Committees"], Italian Parliament website (English translation), 18 March 2010, accessed on 1 November 2010</ref> Days later Makan appeared in Israeli media in Israel where he met with Israeli president [[Shimon Peres]] who welcomed him with gifts.<ref>Batsheva Sobelman, ["ISRAEL: Iranian exile linked to Neda meets with President Shimon Peres"], LA Times Blog, 23 March 2010</ref>
+In March 2010 Nirenstein was photographed at a press conference with [[Caspian Makan]],<ref>Flickr, [http://www.flickr.com/photos/28849077@N00/4445327985/ "caspian fiamma parliament"], Flickr, accessed on 1 November 2010</ref> an Iranian exile who gained fame after he claimed that he was the fiancé of a Neda Agha-Soltan<ref>Iason Athanasiadis, [http://www.globalpost.com/notebook/afghanistan/100404/caspian-makan "Setting the record straight on Caspian Makan"], Global Post, 4 April 2010</ref> who was killed during a protest in Iran in June 2009. Makan visited Italy with Nirenstein's support to testify about human rights in Iran at a hearing in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.<ref>Italian Parliament, [http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.camera.it/453%3Fbollet%3D_dati/leg16/lavori/bollet/201003/0318/html/03&ei=93XPTO7wMIa0lQezr_HoBQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CDoQ7gEwCA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcaspian%2Bmakan%2Bnirenstein%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26biw%3D1275%26bih%3D576%26prmd%3Do "Reports of the Executive and Committees"], Italian Parliament website (English translation), 18 March 2010, accessed on 1 November 2010</ref> Days later Makan appeared in Israeli media in Israel where he met with Israeli president [[Shimon Peres]] who welcomed him with gifts.<ref>Batsheva Sobelman, ["ISRAEL: Iranian exile linked to Neda meets with President Shimon Peres"], LA Times Blog, 23 March 2010</ref>
 ==Affiliations==

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 ====Nirenstein and Caspian Makan====
-In March 2010 Nirenstein was photographed at a press conference with [[Caspian Makan]], an Iranian exile who gained fame after he claimed that he was the fiancé of a Neda Agha-Soltan who was killed during a protest in Iran in June 2009. Makan visited Italy with Nirenstein's support in March 2010 to testify about human rights in Iran at a hearing in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Days later Makan met with Israeli president [[Shimon Peres]] and appeared in Israeli media.
+In March 2010 Nirenstein was photographed at a press conference with [[Caspian Makan]],<ref>Flickr, [http://www.flickr.com/photos/28849077@N00/4445327985/ "caspian fiamma parliament"], Flickr, accessed on 1 November 2010</ref> an Iranian exile who gained fame after he claimed that he was the fiancé of a Neda Agha-Soltan who was killed during a protest in Iran in June 2009. Makan visited Italy with Nirenstein's support to testify about human rights in Iran at a hearing in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.<ref>Italian Parliament, [http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.camera.it/453%3Fbollet%3D_dati/leg16/lavori/bollet/201003/0318/html/03&ei=93XPTO7wMIa0lQezr_HoBQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CDoQ7gEwCA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcaspian%2Bmakan%2Bnirenstein%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26biw%3D1275%26bih%3D576%26prmd%3Do "Reports of the Executive and Committees"], Italian Parliament website (English translation), 18 March 2010, accessed on 1 November 2010</ref> Days later Makan appeared in Israeli media in Israel where he met with Israeli president [[Shimon Peres]] who welcomed him with gifts.<ref>Batsheva Sobelman, ["ISRAEL: Iranian exile linked to Neda meets with President Shimon Peres"], LA Times Blog, 23 March 2010</ref>
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 ====Nirenstein and Caspian Makan====
-In March 2010 Nirenstein was photographed at a press conference with [[Caspian Makan]], an Iranian exile who gained fame after he claimed that he was the fiancé of a Neda Agha-Soltan who was killed during a protest in Iran in June 2009. Makan visited Italy with Nirenstein's support in March 2010 to testify about human rights in Iran at a hearing in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Days later Makan met with Israeli president [[Simon Peres]] and appeared in Israeli media.
+In March 2010 Nirenstein was photographed at a press conference with [[Caspian Makan]], an Iranian exile who gained fame after he claimed that he was the fiancé of a Neda Agha-Soltan who was killed during a protest in Iran in June 2009. Makan visited Italy with Nirenstein's support in March 2010 to testify about human rights in Iran at a hearing in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Days later Makan met with Israeli president [[Shimon Peres]] and appeared in Israeli media.
 ==Affiliations==

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	:Iran is the most important issue. We have to deal with Iran with the threat it is for all the world...There must be a reason why such a bad guy like Iran wants to kill Israel first. This is something that everybody can understand and I think we must work much more on the issue.<ref name=speech>Fiamma Nirenstein [http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/video?id=181 Speech], World Jewish Congress, 1 September 2010, accessed 16 October 2010</ref>		:Iran is the most important issue. We have to deal with Iran with the threat it is for all the world...There must be a reason why such a bad guy like Iran wants to kill Israel first. This is something that everybody can understand and I think we must work much more on the issue.<ref name=speech>Fiamma Nirenstein [http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/video?id=181 Speech], World Jewish Congress, 1 September 2010, accessed 16 October 2010</ref>
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		+	====Nirenstein and Caspian Makan====
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		+	In March 2010 Nirenstein was photographed at a press conference with [[Caspian Makan]], an Iranian exile who gained fame after he claimed that he was the fiancé of a Neda Agha-Soltan who was killed during a protest in Iran in June 2009. Makan visited Italy with Nirenstein's support in March 2010 to testify about human rights in Iran at a hearing in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Days later Makan met with Israeli president [[Simon Peres]] and appeared in Israeli media.

	==Affiliations==		==Affiliations==

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	Nirenstein's writings and public speaking are unabashedly pro-Israel, with a heavy focus on an alleged victimization of Israel by Leftists,<ref name=how>[http://www.mideastoutpost.com/archives/how-i-became-an-unconscious-racist-fiamma-nirenstein.html "How I became an "Unconscious Facist"], Mideast Outpost, accessed on 16 October 2010</ref> international human rights organizations such as the United Nations<ref>Fiamma Nirenstein, [http://www.fiammanirenstein.com/articoli.asp?Categoria=5&Id=2401 "The Left Is Now Rethinking: Enough Mud on Israel"], Fiamma Nirenstein website, 9 June 2010, accessed on 16 October 2010</ref> and Muslim and Arab nations.<ref name=WJC>Fiamma Nirenstein, [http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/video?id=181 "Fiamma Nirenstein at the WJC Governing Board"], World Jewish Congress, 1 September 2010</ref> Nirenstein also argues that "every Jew in the world is an Israeli even if he's not aware of it. Anyone who doesn't know it is making a big mistake"<ref name=history>Meron Rapoport, [http://www.fiammanirenstein.com/articoli.asp?Categoria=5&Id=1960 "Haaretz: Nirenstein makes history"], Fiamma Nirenstein website, 18 April 2008, accessed on 16 October 2010</ref> and stated during a speech in September 2010 that most allegations of anti-semitism are actually "anti-Israelism."<ref name=WJC>Fiamma Nirenstein, [http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/video?id=181 "Fiamma Nirenstein at the WJC Governing Board"], World Jewish Congress, 1 September 2010</ref>		Nirenstein's writings and public speaking are unabashedly pro-Israel, with a heavy focus on an alleged victimization of Israel by Leftists,<ref name=how>[http://www.mideastoutpost.com/archives/how-i-became-an-unconscious-racist-fiamma-nirenstein.html "How I became an "Unconscious Facist"], Mideast Outpost, accessed on 16 October 2010</ref> international human rights organizations such as the United Nations<ref>Fiamma Nirenstein, [http://www.fiammanirenstein.com/articoli.asp?Categoria=5&Id=2401 "The Left Is Now Rethinking: Enough Mud on Israel"], Fiamma Nirenstein website, 9 June 2010, accessed on 16 October 2010</ref> and Muslim and Arab nations.<ref name=WJC>Fiamma Nirenstein, [http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/video?id=181 "Fiamma Nirenstein at the WJC Governing Board"], World Jewish Congress, 1 September 2010</ref> Nirenstein also argues that "every Jew in the world is an Israeli even if he's not aware of it. Anyone who doesn't know it is making a big mistake"<ref name=history>Meron Rapoport, [http://www.fiammanirenstein.com/articoli.asp?Categoria=5&Id=1960 "Haaretz: Nirenstein makes history"], Fiamma Nirenstein website, 18 April 2008, accessed on 16 October 2010</ref> and stated during a speech in September 2010 that most allegations of anti-semitism are actually "anti-Israelism."<ref name=WJC>Fiamma Nirenstein, [http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/video?id=181 "Fiamma Nirenstein at the WJC Governing Board"], World Jewish Congress, 1 September 2010</ref>
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		+	In 2009 Nirenstein helped create a Zionist-funded<ref name=apologetic>Cnaan Liphshiz, [http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-should-drop-apologetic-tactics-admit-it-is-at-war-1.281625 "'Israel should drop apologetic tactics, admit it is at war'"], Haaretz, 8 August 2009</ref> European Israel lobbying group called the [[European Forum of the Knesset]], one of it's main aims being to "attack ferociously those who call to demonize Israel."<ref name=apologetic>Cnaan Liphshiz, [http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-should-drop-apologetic-tactics-admit-it-is-at-war-1.281625 "'Israel should drop apologetic tactics, admit it is at war'"], Haaretz, 8 August 2009</ref>

	===Membership with Silvio Berlusconi's Party===		===Membership with Silvio Berlusconi's Party===

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-Nirenstein considers Iran to be the greatest threat to Israel's regional supremacy in the Middle East:
+Nirenstein considers Iran to be the greatest threat to Israel's regional dominance in the Middle East and regularly lobbies for it to be sanctioned and put on terror lists:<ref>Fiamma Nirenstein, [http://www.hudson-ny.org/1201/iranian-revolutionary-guards-eu-list-of-terrorist-organizations "Iranian Revolutionary Guards Must Be Included in EU List of Terrorist Organizations"], Hudson New York, 17 May 2010, accessed on 18 October 2010</ref>
 :Iran is the most important issue. We have to deal with Iran with the threat it is for all the world...There must be a reason why such a bad guy like Iran wants to kill Israel first. This is something that everybody can understand and I think we must work much more on the issue.<ref name=speech>Fiamma Nirenstein [http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/video?id=181 Speech], World Jewish Congress, 1 September 2010, accessed 16 October 2010</ref>

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		+	Nirenstein considers Iran to be the greatest threat to Israel's regional supremacy in the Middle East:

	:Iran is the most important issue. We have to deal with Iran with the threat it is for all the world...There must be a reason why such a bad guy like Iran wants to kill Israel first. This is something that everybody can understand and I think we must work much more on the issue.<ref name=speech>Fiamma Nirenstein [http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/video?id=181 Speech], World Jewish Congress, 1 September 2010, accessed 16 October 2010</ref>		:Iran is the most important issue. We have to deal with Iran with the threat it is for all the world...There must be a reason why such a bad guy like Iran wants to kill Israel first. This is something that everybody can understand and I think we must work much more on the issue.<ref name=speech>Fiamma Nirenstein [http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/video?id=181 Speech], World Jewish Congress, 1 September 2010, accessed 16 October 2010</ref>

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 In 2010 Nirenstein characterized the Muslim world as follows:
-:Israel is surrounded by a Muslim world that hangs homosexuals and stones women...Israel and the Muslim world do not only have a territorial problem, there is a huge religious, ideological problem.<ref name=speech>Fiamma Nirenstein [http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/video?id=181 Speech], World Jewish Congress, 1 September 2010, accessed 16 October 2010</ref>
+:Israel is surrounded by a Muslim world that hangs homosexuals and stones women"<ref name=speech>Fiamma Nirenstein [http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/video?id=181 Speech], World Jewish Congress, 1 September 2010, accessed 16 October 2010</ref>
 ===Iran===

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 *:"No left and no right. We won’t give the Left the power to decide where we stand. We will decide our alliances by ourselves according to the actual position of our potential partners."<ref name=how>[http://www.mideastoutpost.com/archives/how-i-became-an-unconscious-racist-fiamma-nirenstein.html "How I became an "Unconscious Facist"], Mideast Outpost, accessed on 16 October 2010</ref>
-===International Law===
+===International Law & International Organizations===
 A member of [[NGO Monitor]] and various other lobbying groups that combat criticism of Israeli policy, Nirenstein routinely accuses those groups that report on Israeli violations of international law of anti-semitism.<ref name=rethinking>Fiamma Nirenstein, [http://www.fiammanirenstein.com/articoli.asp?Categoria=5&Id=2401 "The Left Is Now Rethinking: Enough Mud on Israel"], Fiamma Nirenstein website, 9 June 2010, accessed on 16 October 2010</ref>
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 :Israel is showing courage on the issue of a [international investigating] commission. Jerusalem has many good reasons for rejecting an international commission that, according to the UN Council for Human Rights (Italy voted No), is supposed to investigate the behavior of the Jewish State during the unfortunate boarding and takeover of the ship Marmara.<ref name=rethinking>Fiamma Nirenstein, [http://www.fiammanirenstein.com/articoli.asp?Categoria=5&Id=2401 "The Left Is Now Rethinking: Enough Mud on Israel"], Fiamma Nirenstein website, 9 June 2010, accessed on 16 October 2010</ref>
 Nirenstein also rejected the Goldstone Report which was headed by judge Richard Goldstone (who "doesn't mind"<ref name=williams>Ian Williams, [http://www.newstatesman.com/middle-east/2010/01/interview-israel-law "The NS Interview: Richard Goldstone"], New Statesman, 30 December 2009</ref> being called a Zionist and describes himself as a "friend of Israel")<ref name=williams>Ian Williams, [http://www.newstatesman.com/middle-east/2010/01/interview-israel-law "The NS Interview: Richard Goldstone"], New Statesman, 30 December 2009</ref> of being biased in favor of the Palestinians even though the report revealed both Israeli and Palestinian violations of international law: