Shimon Samuels
ARTICLES BY: Shimon Samuels
An Open Letter to UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay
Madam Director-General, In the 28 years of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s NGO accreditation to UNESCO, it came as a shock to learn in February 2020 from...
Pursuing Justice for the AMIA Bombing Victims, 24 Years On
In the aftermath of the Six Day War in 1967, my new Argentine wife and I flew to Buenos Aires to meet her family. This began an...
UNESCO Has Blood on Its Hands
The following is a transcript of a speech delivered by Dr. Shimon Samuels -- the director of International Relations for the Simon Wiesenthal Center --...
FIFA = ‘Federation International for Football Antisemitism’ or ‘Football International Felony Association’
Facing a pro-Palestinian demonstration of some 150 people outside the FIFA Congress Hall in Zurich, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre was the only Jewish organization to...
Will Antisemitic Literature at Arab Book Fairs Aid Recruitment to Terrorism?
Arab book fairs give us a unique insight into the obsessive-compulsive nature of antisemitism. This is particularly the case for the Saudi and Gulf State fairs...
Don’t Let BDS and Palestinians Turn Soccer Into a Political Football
On 6 December, 2001, at an International Commission of Jurists session on the boycott of Israel held at the United Nations in Geneva, Jibril Rajoub...
Nuremberg Betrayed: ISIS and the International Criminal Court
Coming in the context of this 70th Yom HaShoah, the statement by Fatou Bensouda, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC): "...I have come to the...
Iceland’s New Antisemitic Threshold – A Psychiatric Illness?
Iceland is more than its tourist posters of geysers, volcanoes, the singer Bjork and the Northern Lights. It has now stretched antisemitism to new outer...
Boris Nemtsov and Alberto Nisman: a Homage to the Victims
Though his mother is Jewish, the late Boris Nemtsov had been baptized by his Russian Orthodox grandfather. As a practicing Christian respectful of his Jewish...
Munich to Munich: A Symbol of Betrayal or Warning
The hash tag "Munich" evokes a key signpost to World War II. For the Jewish collective memory it symbolizes betrayal: - September 1938, Neville Chamberlain's kowtow...
Opinion: Does Britain Seek a Mandate Over Palestine? An Open Letter to David Cameron
Dear Mr. Prime Minister, Born and bred a British-Jew, I have often been confused in dealing with that hyphenated identity in the context of U.K. policy. Last...
Intifada and Jewish Defence in France
Last month, I attended a Gaza solidarity march of 15,000 marchers through central Paris. Young French-born Muslims burned the Israeli flag, waving posters of the...
At UNESCO, Finally a Glimmer of Hope
The acknowledgment of Palestine as a member state of UNESCO (United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organisation), in November 2011, turned the status of...
An Open Letter to Angela Merkel: Kristallnacht is Still Relevant Today in Germany
Madam Federal Chancellor, We are about to mark the 75th anniversary of the KristallnachtReichspogrom (the Night of Broken Glass State Pogrom) which is considered the prelude...
