Centre Simon Wiesenthal - Europe

Simon Wiesenthal Centre Protests "Allahu Akbar" Paris Stabbings of a Rabbi and his Son: Demands Investigation Into Iranian Assaliant's Jihadi Links and Internet Usage PDF Print E-mail

Paris, 23 April

At 7am this morning, an Iranian screaming «Allahu Akbar» attacked a Rabbi and his son with a cutter outside his synagogue in the 9th district of Paris.

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Fourth Annual Wiesenthal Centre Report on Antisemitism at Casablanca Book Fair (SIEL) : "Chilling that regardless of the 'Arab Spring', Jew-Hatred is an Implacable Constant on the Stands of the SIEL Fair." PDF Print E-mail

"Its theme, The Culture of Images and the Image of Culture, was, in reality, an image that fomented a culture of hate."

Paris, 17 April 2013

In a letter to Moroccan Culture Minister, Mr. Mohamed Amine Sbihi, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre Director for International Relations, Dr. Shimon Samuels, presented his fourth annual monitor of anti-Jewish incitement on the stands of the SIEL (Salon International de l'Edition et du Livre), held in Casablanca 29 March to 7 April 2013.  This is the most important book fair in the Arab world with 150 Moroccan stands, 30 Lebanese, 20 Syrian, 10 Egyptian, 5 Saudi, 2 Palestinian, 1 Libyan.

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Wiesenthal Centre to Belgian Prime: Minister:"Sunday's Scheduled Float Portraying Nazis Holding Zyklon-B Poison Gas Canisters is an Act of Holocaust Revisionist Terrorism" PDF Print E-mail

"Such trivialization is a subliminal step towards recurrence"

Paris, 8 February 2013

In a letter to Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Director for International Relations, Dr. Shimon Samuels, declared that "our Centre is horrified to learn that on Sunday 10 February there is to be a parade in the city of Aalst, featuring a railway wagon with participants dressed as SS officers holding canisters of Zyklon B gas, led by an actor made up as Hitler."

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Wiesenthal Centre to UNESCO: "Fire Paid Consultant who Fabricated Imaginary Report of Non-Existent Meeting to Delegitimize the State of Israel" PDF Print E-mail

"Launch independent enquiry into how this consultant serving a political agenda was appointed in the first place"

Paris, 27 February 2013

In a letter to UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Director for International Relations, Dr. Shimon Samuels, expressed grave concern at a UNWatch blog on "Nicola Perugini–a researcher in the Palestinian Territories for UNESCO –who on 22 February, reported in Al Jazeera on a meeting that never took place."

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WIESENTHAL CENTRE URGES HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT AND EU TO INVESTIGATE,REPORTS OF IRAN-JOBBIK LINKS PDF Print E-mail

"European Parliament must prevent Tehran from establishing foothold in Europe through Jobbik Party"

Budapest, March 7, 2013

Officials of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, a leading Jewish human rights NGO, at the end of their 3–day mission to Budapest are urging the Hungarian government and the European Parliament to investigate reports of a growing relationship between Iran and the antisemitic and anti-Roma Jobbik Hungarian political party.

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