Well, I guess if it's just hors d'oeuvres . . .
Over the objections of the administration and Jewish groups that boycotted the event, Mr. Ahmadinejad, the man who has become the defiant face of Iran, squared off with the nation’s foreign policy establishment, parrying questions for an hour and three-quarters with two dozen members of the Council on Foreign Relations . . . .In its own way, doesn't commingling moral principles with what's on the menu also tend to trivialize the Holocaust?
[L]eaders of several Jewish groups, whom Mr. Haass invited . . . promptly asked if the council would have invited Hitler in the 1930’s. "Some of us considered quitting to make it clear how offensive this is," said Abraham H. Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, who was one of the Jewish leaders whose attendance Mr. Haass sought.
But after a flurry of phone calls, including with Elie Wiesel, the writer and Holocaust survivor, they decided against a mass resignation — particularly after the council made the session a "meeting" rather than a dinner. (There were light hors d'oeuvres on the side; Mr. Ahmadinejad never touched them.)
"It is more offensive to break bread with the guy," Mr. Foxman said. "I thought dinner was crossing the line." - New York Times, September 21, 2006
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