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FONDATION DU CAMP DES MILLES – MÉMOIRE ET ÉDUCATION
Le 27 juin 2024
AUJOURD’HUI, L’HISTOIRE ALERTE LE PRÉSENT
Manifeste du Réseau international « Institutions mémorielles et éducation à la citoyenneté »
Le réseau international « Institutions mémorielles et éducation à la citoyenneté » a été créé au Site-mémorial du Camp des Milles après les attentats de 2015 en France, dans le cadre de la Chaire Unesco « Éducation à la citoyenneté, Sciences de l’Homme et convergence des mémoires », afin de réfléchir aux voies et moyens permettant à ces institutions d’apporter aux citoyens des analyses fondées sur le recul de l’histoire et des sciences de l’homme face à un présent complexe, évolutif et dangereux pour la démocratie, marqué par la montée des extrémismes, des terrorismes, de l’antisémitisme, des racismes et de la xénophobie mais aussi par des résistances plurielles aux engrenages mortifères qu’ils déclenchent ou nourrissent.
Paris, 3 June 2024
Dr Shimon Samuels, Emeritus Director for International Relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, has sent congratulations to Claudia Sheinbaum, the first woman in history to become President of Mexico.
He noted: “Our connection is the Colegio de Mexico, where I was a three-year scholar for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the mid-‘70s, while you researched ‘Advanced Sustainable Development’ there more recently.
“Of my three daughters, one is herself a scientist, the second – born in Mexico – is now in hi-tech, while the third lives in a kibbutz.
From Dr Shimon Samuels, Emeritus Director for International Relations, Simon Wiesenthal Centre
Paris, 24 May 2024
Mr. Prime Minister,
It is shocking to learn that Spain has unilaterally decided to recognize the “State of Palestine”.
It is shocking, because this political move is celebrated by Hamas, in their own words: “We consider this an important step towards affirming our right to our land.” Well, we all know what the terrorists want to be “their land” – the infamous “from the river to the sea.”
Paris, 22 May 2024
“When the International Criminal Court (ICC) was established by the Rome Statute in 1998, we believed that its role would reflect the work of the late Simon Wiesenthal, to prosecute war criminals,” stated now Emeritus Director for International Relations of the Wiesenthal Centre, D. Shimon Samuels.
Samuels argued, “Sadly, the ICC pre-trial ruling against Israel showed that yet another United Nations-related institution has been infected by political bias as an instrument for Palestinian denial of Jewish sovereignty.”
“The United States and Israel never joined the ICC, foreseeing themselves placed in the dock,” stated Samuels, adding, “This became a reality when ‘Palestine’ joined the Rome Statute in June 2014 and launched a series of communications to manipulate the Court into targeting Israel, despite the ‘non-State, non-sovereign and non-defined borders’ Palestinian status.”
Read more: The ICC Infected by Political Bias as Instrument...
Paris, 19 May 2024
On 6 May, the Honoured Guest of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) annual dinner was the new young Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal.
PM Attal’s speech spanned from his Jewish grandmother’s hiding from the Nazi death trains from Drancy to Auschwitz, up to today’s danger of Islamist extremism.
At that dinner, Dr Shimon Samuels, Emeritus Director for International Relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, had expressed hope that the new Government would take harder measures against antisemitism.