News Releases 2025
by Shimon Samuels and Alex Uberti
Paris, 9 May 2025
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has been blasted over the past weeks, with calls to expel the Israeli candidate at the upcoming Eurovision song contest in Basel, Switzerland.
Last year, it was held in Malmö, Sweden, a city where there have been cases of Jew-hatred, including attacks on the local Rabbi. At the 2024 Eurovision event, among others, Spanish parliamentarians from Podemos, Sumar, leftist and regional nationalist parties called for the boycott of Israeli singer Eden Golan. The latter ended second in the public vote, thanks to the power of her song “Hurricane” and the worldwide solidarity against the disgusting discrimination from spectators present, from several other contestants, and the profusion of death threats online.
by Shimon Samuels and Alex Uberti
Paris, 28 April 2025
CSW-Europe has come across yet another antisemitic article dated 17 March and published in Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper, this one entitled “Zionist Penetration”, written by Laila Takla.
Prof. Takla, who is a Copt, member of the Egyptian People’s Assembly and of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, presents herself as “promoter of Muslim-Christian relations”. In her soothing words, “whether you are Christian or Muslim, allow no place in your heart, mind and conduct for fanaticism, hate and exclusion.”
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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