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"This week marked the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Bar-Ilan University marked the event with a two-day conference, "Evaluating the Record." "Instead of serving as a moral shield after the Holocaust, human rights rhetoric has become a weapon for attacking Israel," said Gerald Steinberg, Bar-Ilan political studies chair and executive director of the watchdog NGO Monitor. Bar-Ilan, NGO Monitor and the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs sponsored the conference."