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Tom Lantos, friend of Taiwan, dies of cancer, aged 79

Tom Lantos, a Hungarian born-Holocaust survivor and veteran Democratic congressman who chaired the US House Foreign Affairs committee, died yesterday, a month after announcing he had cancer.

California representative Lantos, who was 79, and an outspoken campaigner for human rights, died yesterday morning, his spokeswoman Lynne Weil said.

Born in Budapest to a Jewish family in February 1928, Lantos was 16 when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary.

As a teenager, he was a member of the anti-Nazi resistance, and later of the anti-Communist student movement.

Since the Democrats regained control of Congress in 2006 elections, Lantos has used his committee to launch strident appeals for greater US action on human rights in China, Darfur, Myanmar and Russia.

Under his stewardship, the committee voted in October to describe the mass slaughter of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as "genocide" -- plunging US relations with Turkey into crisis.

A regular visitor to Taiwan, Lantos was a longtime acquaintance

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Robert Lantos: The true face of BDS

The BDS movement has hijacked the progressive narrative and the hearts and minds of the socially conscious, including Jewish youth.

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Canadian filmmaker Robert Lantos spoke May 1 in Toronto, where he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Haifa. Here is an abridged version of his speech.

We live in dangerous times. As Jews, we face two concurrent wars: the war of rockets and guns, fought almost continuously on Israel’s borders — and the war of words, spearheaded by the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, in tandem with its bred-in-Canada campus sibling, the annual festival of hate known as Israel Apartheid Week. Israel has never been defeated on the battlefield, and she must never be. But our enemies have devised other weapons, more sophisticated than rockets, with which to weaken her through isolation and vilification via the spreading of a false narrative that has become gospel in fashionable, politically correct circles.

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Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Jonestown and the Death of Congressman Leo Ryan

HON. TOM LANTOS

OF CALIFORNIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

November 17, 2003

(Mr. LANTOS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of the massacre at Jonestown where more than 900 people lost their lives to the sick cause of a sociopath masquerading as a visionary.

Among the victims was my distinguished predecessor and good friend, Congressman Leo Ryan, the first Member of Congress ever killed in the line of duty. He was gunned down along with four others of his delegation whom he led to investigate reports of human rights abuses in the jungles of Guyana.

Mr. Speaker, while we continue to struggle to understand such events, let us also continue to commemorate the people they affect.

I would like to ask all of my colleagues for a moment of silence to remember our fallen colleague, my predece