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May 8, 2018, 11:22 AM

Open letter to Chilean President on this week’s visit of Holocaust-denying anti-Semite Mahmoud Abbas to Santiago

Paris and Buenos Aires, 7 May H.E. Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique President of Chile Santiago Mr.President, We have learned that you will be receiving this week the Holocaust denying antisemitic Palestinian President, Mahmud Abbas We understand that Chile has the largest number of citizens of...

Apr 25, 2018, 8:52 AM

An Open Letter to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland Mr. High Commissioner, HRH Prince Zeid,It has come to our attention that your Royal Highness has announced your resignation from the UN Human Rights Council, effective at the...

Nov 3, 2017, 7:10 AM

A Balfour Centenary: Documents Do Not Create Nation–States…Nations Do!

The concept of “nation” has no universal definition, but has been acknowledged as “a population which shares, inter alia: a common history, traditions, language, territory and, sometimes, faith. The Italian, German and Polish nations existed virtually, while atomized in principalities...

Sep 12, 2017, 6:43 PM

After 37 Years, Next Week will Determine Whether Palestinian Implicated in Copernic Synagogue Bombing will Face Paris Trial

On 28 July 2017, one of the longest judicial enquiries in the history of a French tribunal finally moved forward. Thirty-seven years after the crime, the investigating magistrates completed their enquiry into the 1980 bombing of the rue Copernic...

Sep 4, 2017, 6:54 PM

All Links Along the Terror Chain Must Pay the Penalty — Not Granted Awards

In 1998, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre was called to the German Labour Ministry in Bonn. Since reunification in 1990, followed by the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, the number of war pensions had mushroomed among Wehrmacht veterans and...

Jul 27, 2017, 4:09 PM

Treating the Cancer of Antisemitism’s Metastasis

The cancer of antisemitism's metastasis in the UK and continental Europe can only be treated by the expulsion of pro-Jihadists, antisemites and other bigots from mainstream political parties A 1950's Times of London headline characterized the British post-war sense of...

May 24, 2017, 6:53 AM

An Open Letter to Prime Minister Teresa May

Madam Prime Minister, The Simon Wiesenthal Centre congratulates you on your unrelenting stand against the warped madness of anti-Western terrorism and, more specifically, the Manchester Arena atrocity. Permit me a few worrying thoughts for you to consider: --Now that ISIS has claimed...

May 3, 2017, 2:31 AM

UNESCO – The Road to the Abyss

On Israel's 69th Independence Day, the 58 member-states of the UNESCO Executive Board voted yet another pro-Palestinian resolution denying Israeli/Jewish ties to Jerusalem. The resolution passed as expected with 22 votes 'yes' to 10 votes 'no' ( Greece, Italy, Lithuania,...

Apr 30, 2017, 3:44 PM

A Palestino-European Union Resolution at UNESCO

Last week, outgoing UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova stated to the World Jewish Congress in New York that “to deny, conceal or erase any of the Jewish, Christian or Muslim traditions undermines the integrity of the City of Jerusalem and...

Jul 18, 2016, 9:31 PM

An Open Letter to French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault: “ Argentina Commemorates the AMIA Jewish Centre Bombing — France Meets with Hizbollah”

Mr. Jean-Marc Ayrault, Foreign Minister 37, Quai d'Orsay,Paris Buenos Aires, 18 July 2016 Mr. Foreign Minister, Today, Argentina commemorates the 22nd anniversary of the AMIA Jewish Welfare Centre bombing. On 18 July 1994, 85 people died and over 300 were wounded at the hands...

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About Me

Shimon Samuels is Director for International Relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He has served as Deputy Director of the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, European Director of ADL, and Israel Director of AJC. He was born in UK and studied in UK, Israel, U.S. and Japan.