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| January 17, 2014
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UNESCO postponed Jewish ties to Land of Israel exhibit saying it could harm peace process

 

UNESCO has postponed a Jewish exhibit 2 years in the making, entitled “People, Book, Land – The 3,500 Year Relationship of the Jewish People and the Land of Israel,” after a last minute protest from the Arab League.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
 

 

Less than a week before the planned opening of an exhibit chronicling 3,500 years of Jewish ties to the Land of Israel, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has postponed the event, slated to open at its Paris headquarters Monday, out of concern that it could be harmful to the peace process.

UNESCO advocates for Syrian youth education, another example how the Arab League controls UNESCO

UNESCO advocates for Syrian youth education, another example how the Arab League influences UNESCO

“UNESCO is deeply committed to the successful outcome of the peace process in order to achieve stability in the region and we have a responsibility in ensuring that current efforts in this regard are not endangered,” wrote director-general Irina Bokova on Wednesday to the exhibit’s cohost, the Los Angels-based Simon Wiesenthal Center. Continue Reading »

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| January 8, 2014
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Judgment: Jewish girl’s hair set alight after saying ‘let’s burn the Jew’ was not racist

Canadian Judge’s verdict:  High school student who lit Jewish girl’s hair on fire saying WW II theme, ‘let’s burn the Jew’, did not commit hate crime.

By Dalit Halevi, Ari Yashar

 

In Canada, a Winnipeg provincial court judge recently ruled that a 2011 altercation at a local high school, in which a student lit a 15-year-old Jewish student’s hair on fire with a lighter while saying “let’s burn the Jew,” was not a hate crime.

‘Let’s Burn the Jew’ Not Racist – Photo: Thinkstock

The judge claimed despite the facts of the case that the offender, who pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon, did not mean to burn the girl’s hair or target her because she was Jewish. Continue Reading »

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| November 25, 2013
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Awareness campaign opens 4 investigations into Nazi war criminals in Germany

Operation Last Chance will bring aging war criminals to justice.

The response to the ad campaign — with the slogan “Late but not too late” proves that the poster struck a very strong nerve in German society.

By JTA

 

BERLIN — At least four investigations of possible Nazi-era war criminals have been turned over to German investigators in recent months.

Operation Last Chance Poster: Late, but not too late

Operation Last Chance Poster: Late, but not too late

The alleged Nazi war criminals were identified following an awareness campaign by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

“Operation Last Chance II,” launched in 2011 and expanded Monday with a new poster campaign, has yielded hundreds of calls and emails from around the world, said Efraim Zuroff, the organization’s chief Nazi
hunter.

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| November 4, 2013
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Which studio gets Hollywood stars to work for free?

Kevin Costner, Elizabeth Taylor, Sandra Bullock to Whoopi Goldberg, Moria Films enlists stars for a Jewish cause.

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One Hollywood film studio has commanded only A-list talent since its inception — Elizabeth Taylor, Morgan Freeman, Sandra Bullock, Michael Douglas, Nicole Kidman — and they all worked for free. What kind of studio head has such pull? It’s Rabbi Marvin Hier, the mini-mogul of Moriah Films, the movie division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Actress Sandra Bullock, Oct. 10, 2013.

Actress Sandra Bullock, Oct. 10, 2013.- Photo: Reuters

Founded by Hier in 1981, Moriah Films has won two Academy Awards for its historical documentaries. Continue Reading »

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| November 2, 2013
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Dutch Advisory Council advised building ties with Hamas

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, responded to a letter in which he was asked to disband a body that advised building ties with Hamas, saying that the gov’t has no control over Anti-Israel Report.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

The Dutch Prime Minister has responded to a letter by the Simon Wiesenthal Center last month, in which he was asked to disband a statutory government body that has called on the Netherlands to develop closer ties to the terrorist organization Hamas at the expense of Israel.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s letter to Prime Minister Mark Rutte condemned a report by the Advisory Council on International Affairs, which calls for the Netherlands to distance itself from Israel and develop closer ties with Hamas. Continue Reading »

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| July 5, 2013
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Latvian memorial: Celebrating the ’rounding up of Jews’ to protect their village

 

The Simon Wiesenthal Center blasts Latvia nationalists’ plan to commemorate WWII event that facilitated the massacre of town’s entire Jewish population ‘absolutely disgusting & a terrible insult to all Holocaust victims’

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The Simon Wiesenthal Center on Wednesday condemned plans by Latvian nationalists to mark a World War II event that led to the massacre of a town’s Jewish population.

Latvian nationalists. 'Old-fashioned anti-Semitism' (archives) - Photo: AFP

Latvian nationalists. ‘Old-fashioned anti-Semitism’ (archives) – Photo: AFP

Efraim Zuroff, director of the Nazi-hunting center in Jerusalem, called the commemoration planned Thursday in the northern town of Limbazi “absolutely disgusting and a terrible insult to the victims of the Holocaust in Latvia.” Continue Reading »

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| March 3, 2013
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Sec of State Kerry Commended for Defending Zionism

Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center commends Sec. of State Kerry for directly confronting Turkish PM Erdogan’s slanderous accusation against the ‘Bedrock’ of the Jewish People.

By Arutz Sheva staff

 

The Simon Wiesenthal Center commended U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday for directly confronting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s slanderous accusation in which he called Zionism a “crime against humanity”.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry“Secretary Kerry is to be commended for publically objecting to Erdogan’s outrageous attack against Zionism, the bedrock of the Jewish people’s historic narrative,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the leading Jewish human rights organization. Continue Reading »

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| January 25, 2013
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Jewish Group Points Out, Recent Islamist Attacks are Just the Beginning

Spokesman at Simon Wiesenthal Center raises alarms about recent threats made by Islamist terrorists that staged deadly hostage crisis at Algerian gas plant.

By Rachel Hirshfeld

 

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has raised alarms regarding the threats made by Mokhtar Belmokhtar, spokesman of the Islamist terrorist group that staged a deadly hostage crisis at an Algerian gas plant last week.

Algerian security escorts a freed hostage

Algerian security escorts a freed hostage
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In an interview with the journal Paris Match, Belmokhtar claimed to be speaking on behalf of his leader, the Mauritanian Salafist, Hacen Ould Khalil, also known as Joulaybib, whom he quoted as “threatening to commit new attacks against France, in which the Crusaders and the Zionist Jews will pay for its aggressions in the north of Mali.” Continue Reading »

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| January 4, 2013
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‘Anti-Semitic’ Spiegel columnist caused uproar

The Wiesenthal Center’s inclusion of Jakob Augstein in its 2012 top-ten list of anti-Semites has sparked heated debate in Germany.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT

 

BERLIN – The inclusion of a Spiegel online columnist in a 2012 top-ten list of anti-Semites has sparked a fierce debate in the German media since the beginning of the new year.zaz

The Simon Wiesenthal Center ranked Jakob Augstein ninth for his written attacks on Jews and the State of Israel. He is a columnist for Spiegel online, owns a large stake in the Hamburg-based Der Spiegel magazine, and is owner of the left-wing weekly Der Freitag.

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