On October 28, the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress Secretary General Michael Chlenov spoke as a guest of honor at a seminar held in Moscow by the Shahar Zionist organization. The seminar was titled “Israel: Friends and Enemies.”

The aim of these seminars is to explain the position of the Jewish state on the global arena and to teach Jewish youth how to give a proper response to anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli rhetoric. Important political and religious public figures of Russia and Israel participated in the seminar, including member of the Director's Council of the Jabotinsky Institute, head of the Likud lobby for education Ariel Bulstein and the Co-Chairman of the Moscow Society for Azerbaijani-Jewish Friendship Arthur Nurvuzaliyev.

Michael Chlenov read a lecture on the current geopolitical status of Israel, on the relations of the Jewish state with its Arabian neighbors, and of the Iranian threat to the global civilization. In his speech he stressed, “To understand who is wrong and who is right in the Near East conflict, one must merely open an objective textbook on 20th century history and add maps to this knowledge – luckily, any kind of map is available now. And then, taking the second half of the 20th century into account, it will be very easy to see who is the aggressor and who is the victim, who is fanatically trying to destroy their neighbor, and who has been extending an offer of peace for over 60 years now.”