By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Tell Hamas leaders that they we be held responsible for every civilian casualty," stated Rabbi Abraham Cooper, a leader of the center.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The group asks King Abdullah to end harassment at border for packing prayer shawls and phylacteries
Trian Fund Management LP, an investment firm of billionaire Nelson Peltz, acquired a 1.5% stake in the company for $1.6 billion this year.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Civil servant Michael Blume defends allegations of impropriety by going on the offensive against his Jewish accusers.
The bus will allow easy access to students, educators, police, faith groups, and professionals to critical training on anti-Semitism, racism, bullying, stereotyping, hate, and intolerance.
Michael Levitt, president and CEO of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, said members understood “that censure would set a chilling precedent and impact trustees’ abilities to stand up to hate and discrimination.”
The Simon Wiesenthal Center and Americans Against Anti-Semitism slammed the outlet for considering someone as divisive as Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, known for anti-Semitic and hate speech.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Efraim Zuroff slammed the proposed legislation as the “final stage of a long attempt to whitewash massive complicity by Lithuanians.”
RUOC consistently denies being anti-Semitic, but many find its Facebook posts and videos unmistakably anti-Jewish.
By JNi.Media
The Indonesian museum’s manager stated: 'We don’t want to attract outrage.'
By JNi.Media
After someone over in Tokyo had shown him the light, Aso realized “it was inappropriate that I cited Hitler as an example and I would like to retract that.”
On today's special edition of Israel Uncensored recorded from Jerusalem on Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day, Josh Hasten interviews Dr. Efraim Zuroff - Chief Nazi Hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
By JNi.Media
In 2007 and 2008 Newsweek named Rabbi Hier the most influential rabbi in America.
Germany had planned to send sports expert Gert Engels to coach the Palestinian Authority football team over a 2-year period.
By JNi.Media
"Soon we will each be applying for colleges and we are very concerned by the recent rise in anti-Semitic behavior on campuses across the country. Thanks to today's meeting with Tammi, many of us feel better prepared for what we might encounter."
Even though Daddy and Zaidi were less verbal, they could speak volumes to each other with a mere few words.
Protests from various American Jewish organizations have led to the removal of Hamas incitement from Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram. Simon Wiesenthal Center's Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper urged the public to report hate sites on social media platforms which are fueling the current spate of attacks in Israel. The rabbis also denounced: Unfair […]
Tehran 'rejects the existence of any Israeli on Earth' and told the P5+1 that during JCPOA negotiations.
Increase in security for US Ambassador to Israel after threats received relating to Nuclear Iran deal
SWC leadership calls on P5+1 to condemn Iran's threats to annihilate Israel. *crickets*
Some American Jews continue lobbying Obama to more aggressively undermine Israel
Wiesenthal Center urges US to reconsider funding PA after it moves to become a party to the International Criminal Court.
By JTA
It will be harder to “never forget” when the survivors and the butchers no longer are alive.
Abbas was denounced by the SWC for trying to disassociate Jews from their holy sites and inciting violence against them.
Simon Wiesenthal Center called on US to denounce the rigged UNHRC Commission on Gaza.
Temple University's SJP claims the pro-Israel Jewish student harassed and provoked them into assaulting him.
By Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper
We were quite disappointed with many of the points the secretary-general offered in response.
The Wiesenthal Center detailed for Ban Ki Moon Hamas's as well as the UN's grievous wrongs in Gaza.
In praising the kidnapping, Hamas remains true to its anti-Semitic, genocidal founding charter.
Unfortunately, the French-born murderer of innocents at the Brussels Jewish Museum, are revered by many young Muslims.
"There is no fig leaf large enough to cover Hamas' blood-drenched legacy," said the heads of the SWC.
This cold-blooded attack takes place against the backdrop of a massive spike in European anti-Semitism.
Rabbi Hier explains what must be learned from the Holocaust, and why it is important never to forget.
The SJP is emboldened while the grown-ups cower in the corner, avoiding the wrath of the troublemakers.
In 1941, the Jews of Kiev received a similar leaflet. When they showed up the next day, more than 34,000 were murdered.
Either Obama or Kerry must tell the Saudis, bluntly, that they cannot have it both ways, Hier said.
By JTA
An alleged former medic at Auschwitz was arrested in Germany on accusations that he was an accessory to murder. The name of the 93-year-old man was not released in accordance with German privacy laws. He is accused of serving as a medic at the concentration camp in September 1944. Eight transports arrived at Auschwitz during […]
Norway's YMCA adopted a boycott of all Israel. The Weisenthal Center objects strenuously.
German police arrested three men in their 80s and 90s Thursday on suspicion of accessory to murder when they were guards at the Auschwitz death camp. Three others, all in their 90s, may also be arrested if police uncover enough evidence to warrant putting them on trial. "This is a major step," said Nazi hunter […]
The Dutch believe Israel is the greatest threat to peace and is trying to exterminate the Arabs
The church "study guide" casts supporters of the Jewish homeland as "inherently racist and abusive."
"That symbol on anyone's head is anti-Semitic," said Libby Schaaf. Her father was born Jewish and she is proud of her Jewish heritage.
You'd never know from UNESCO's "postponement" announcement that the exhibition was called off because of Arab pressure, rather than because the exhibition wasn't ready.
By JTA
The decision arose out of UNESCO’s support for peace talks.
Arabs, Jews, Muslims, Europeans and Americans are well-represented.
The basketball exhibition of NBA stars, which Dennis Rodman is preparing for the birthday celebration of North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un, is "an undeserved gift to a murderous tyrant," Rabbi Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said.
I began to hear rumors that North Korea was using poison gas to kill selected political prisoners.
It appears the president of a university-funded student group at San Francisco State boasted how much he loved his knife and that it made him want to stab an Israeli soldier.
There is nothing worse for Jews than a good looking and do-good non-Jewish woman doctor who sees the world through her stethoscope and thinks Jews are ignorant of health because they circumcise babies.
By JTA
Government officials in Lithuania said they would offer symbolic reparations to nearly 1,800 Jewish Holocaust survivors. The officials told the Baltic News Agency on Wednesday that each survivor will receive a payment of $622 this year. The compensation was also for “suffering during the Soviet occupation,” according to the announcement. Lithuanian governments have faced criticism […]
The American Freedom Alliance, a Los Angeles based think-tank and activist network, held a forum and rally last Sunday at the Luxe Bel Air Hotel in LA, and Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson of BOND, an organization helping "men and their families regain control of their lives and overcome life’s challenges," released statements about the event […]
By JTA
Pope Francis reaffirmed his commitment to fighting discrimination and furthering Jewish-Catholic dialogue. During an audience at the Vatican Thursday with a 60-member delegation from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Francis said that he has “repeated many times, in recent weeks, the church’s condemnation of any form of anti-Semitism.” Such condemnations were just part of the solution, […]
With transportation systems serving as a new front in the anti-Israel propaganda wars, Toronto Transit rejected an ad because it is "inaccurate and misleading."
By JTA
A Belgian Education Ministry website compared Israel and Nazi Germany, a Jewish newspaper reported. The comparisons were made on the KlasCement.be website, a major teaching resource offered by the Education Ministry of the Flemish Region, one of three entities that make up the federal Belgian state, the Jewish monthly Joods Actueel reported Monday. The website […]
By JTA
The Simon Wiesenthal Center urged an Argentinean soccer association to sanction a team associated with the Jewish community for making racist chants. The center made its request in a letter late last week to the Argentine Football Association’s Disciplinary Court over chants by fans of the Atlanta Football Club in its Aug. 25 match against […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Facebook “does not permit hate speech, but distinguishes between serious and humorous speech.” If so, Holocaust denial and praise for Hitler apparently can now be called harmless humor.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Enough is enough,” said Simon Wiesenthal Center Dean Rabbi Marvin Hier and Associate Dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper in a statement.
Nazi hunters, including Israel, have been looking for Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner for years. The CIA may have employed him. At the age of 100, he still may alive and hiding in Syria.
By JTA
German police arrested on Monday one of the 10 most wanted Nazis, 93-year-old Hans Lipschis, who is facing charges of complicity in murder as a former guard at the Auschwitz extermination camp. State prosecutors in Stuttgart are preparing an indictment against Lipschis, a native of Lithuania who was a guard at Auschwitz from the autumn […]
The new pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina attended Rosh HaShanah services five years ago and was outspoken in the attack against the Jewish Community Center by agents of Iran in 1994.
The U.S. president may be unwilling to repeat a major failure of his first term, when he practically demanded there be progress on the "peace process," but, when met with the reality of the situation, had to chalk up that goal as a failed one.
Like Europeans, Israelis are mad for their soccer. For some, soccer is the true religion of the Middle East, one shared by Muslims and Jews alike. But just as in Europe, not all soccer fans follow the normal rules of civility, and the behavior of some fans of one Israeli soccer team in particular, Jerusalem […]
The leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood top the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of top ten anti-Semites of the year.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai is joined by Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center office in Jerusalem. Together they discuss hunting Nazi war criminals including today's most wanted.
By Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman
If there were an Olympics for lying, the winner of this year's gold medal for prevarication would be Egypt’s president, Mohammed Morsi. Of course heads of state lie, but rarely do they display it with such chutzpah. The recent sleight-of-hand involving a president-to-president exchange would shock even cynics.
Egyptian Foreign Ministry says it informed Israel that it would not be "appropriate" for Jewish pilgrims to make the annual visit.