Ankie is spearheading the Minute of Silence campaign along with the Jewish Community Centre in Rockland, just north of New York City, where a memorial garden has been created for the athletes. Ankie visited here recently to speak to students about the events 40 years ago. The JCC decided to start an online petition to try and force the International Olympic Committee to agree. So far it has almost 85,000 signatures from around the world, from people of all faiths. Steven Spielberg's 2005 film, Munich showed how the events unfolded, the events that saw the 11 members of the Israeli delegation killed by the Palestinian group Black September. The organization that represents all Jews throughout America is also backing the campaign from New York.
Nick Harper, JN1, New York.
