News Releases 2025
The State Department Must Act Against Antisemitic Blood Libels
by Shimon Samuels and Alex Uberti
Paris, 2 April 2025
Mr. Secretary of State,
The Facebook page of the “Zaid Bin Harithah Secondary School for Boys” in Madaba, Jordan, posted a video of 10th grade student, Jamal Shehadeh, who is one of the school’s nominees to participate in this year's edition of the “Arab Reading Challenge”. This is one of the “Global Initiatives” launched by the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed ibn Rashid Al Maktoum, to encourage children to read.
In the clip, the student praises “the most beautiful book” he has ever read, entitled “The Jewish Quarter (Blood for the Unleavened Bread of Zion)”, by Najib al-Kilani. This horrifies us.
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by Shimon Samuels
Paris, 27 March 2025
A document, drafted by a Committee promoting BDS (the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign exclusively targeting Israel and the Jews) and “Israeli Apartheid Week” (IAW) has appeared, apparently addressed to students, calling to “dismantle the Israeli regime of settler-colonialism, genocide, and apartheid towards Palestinian liberation.” It stressed the need of “amplifying Palestinian voices...”
by Shimon Samuels
Paris, 5 March 2025
Mr President,
I call on you in regard to the article written by Abdul Wahab Adas, Deputy Editor in Chief at state-owned Al-Gomhuriya online newspaper, from 20 February, entitled “The Worst Book in History”.
https://www.gomhuriaonline.com/GomhuriaOnline-Articles/Articles/Articles/16865.html
The article refers to the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, a slanderous forgery by the Russian Secret Police at the turn of the last century, in order to use the Jews as scapegoats for the inevitable decline of the Tsarist Empire. The same false accusations were used by Hitler’s Nazi regime to justify the murder of six million Jews (the Holocaust), and since then by antisemites worldwide, of all ideologies and creeds...
Here is the near full text (translated from Arabic):
The Worst Book in History
by Abdul Wahab Adas
“In order to understand why the Israelis are so cruel, so arrogant and so inhumane... several books came to my mind, especially the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’.
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Jerusalem, 26 February 2025
Today, the world witnessed the funeral of a mother, Shiri, her 4-year old boy, Ariel, and her baby, Kfir (z”l). May they rest in peace.
Reports say that they were brutally murdered a month after their abduction. We cannot imagine what their innocent eyes had witnessed, and the unbearable physical and psychological torture they had endured between their kidnapping on 7 October 2023 and their final moments.
Some days ago, their coffins were paraded on stage by Hamas, among the glee of their own children. The coffins were locked and delivered with no keys and, on opening Shiri’s for identification, the dead body of an unknown Arab woman was found instead. After this sickening behaviour, at last Shiri’s remains were released. Her surviving husband and father of the two boys, their remaining families and friends, are in mourning, together with an entire nation and the Jewish people.
Shiri, Ariel and Kfir live on in our collective memory, and are a testimony to the criminal intent of antisemitism.
Please share their story worldwide. Thank you.
Dr Shimon Samuels
Emeritus Director for International Relations
Simon Wiesenthal Centre
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