Debate on campus

"Ultimately, Hillel of Greater Philadelphia -- which oversees Hillel at Temple -- opted not to offer its space, and Halper wound up speaking to about 30 students in another building. Hillel had also recently declined to sponsor a talk by Geert Wilders, a far-right Dutch politician who has called the Koran an "evil book." Wilders was also redirected to a different venue on campus, where he drew more than 100 protesters. Meanwhile, Hillel officials agreed to hold a Nov. 3 talk by Effi Eitam, a retired brigadier general and former Knesset member from the Israeli right who currently opposes the creation of a Palestinian state. According to a 2004 New Yorker article, Eitam said of the Palestinians: "We will have to kill them all. I know it's not very diplomatic. I don't mean all the Palestinians, but the ones with evil in their heads." The article discussed religiously motivated settlers who equate the Palestinians to the Amalekites, whom the Torah describes as an eternal enemy of the Jewish people." (thanks Shadi)