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    French Festival of Jewish Films - cosponsored by Verbe et Lumière-Vigilance
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    Exhibition Opening, 11 June 2014: “People, Book, Land”
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    Paris Town Hall Illumination to honour victims of terror in Jerusalem
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    Exhibition Opening Copenhagen
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    Dr. Shimon Samuels meeting Pope Francis
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    Inauguration Place Simon & Cyla Wiesenthal
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News Releases 2023

Paris, 26 May 2023

In 2010, the Wiesenthal Centre had issued a “Travel Advisory” on Malmö, Sweden, for the constant attacks on Jews and Judaism in that city.

Despite visits by the Centre’s officials – Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Director for Global Social Action and Associate Dean of the Centre, together with Dr Shimon Samuels, the Centre’s Director for International Relations –, hatred persisted, as in the Malmö Arab Book Fair of 2020, that was terminated thanks to the Centre’s alerting local authorities. See: https://www.wiesenthal.com/about/news/update.html

MEMRI has exposed the purpose of a conference to be held tomorrow, Saturday 27 May, entitled “75 Years On... We Will Return!”, to be attended by some “20,000 Palestinians from around Europe, but also European Parliament members and other politicians.”

Paris, 19 May 2023

Madam Prime Minister,

You will recall our conversation, regarding the rise in extremism – both left and right of the political spectrum – and your concern particularly regarding the scourge of antisemitism in France.

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Paris, 16 May 2023

Egypt has just been correctly thanked for its role in persuading a bunch of terrorists with missiles attacking Israel, to cease their fire until the next time.

The Wiesenthal Centre annually, however, in its measures of Jew-hatred at six Arab Book Fairs, always finds the leading antisemitic publishers to be Egyptian. The most sold are based on Henry Ford’s “The International Jew”, the Tsarist Russian forgery of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and Hitler’s “Mein Kampf”.

“Once again, at the 2023 Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF), was a plethora of Egyptian publishers of hate (Dar Al Kitab, Dar Al Khaloud, Dar Al Hayat, First Book Publishing, Dar Al Nadaa, UM Publishing, Dar Pharos...),” stated the Centre’s Director for International Relations, Dr Shimon Samuels.

16 May 2023

4 May 2023

In a letter to CEO of Christie’s, Guillaume Cerutti, Wiesenthal Centre Director for International Relations, Dr Shimon Samuels, demanded the withdrawal of the 3-15 May Geneva auction “World of Heidi Horten: Magnificent Jewels.”

The Horten’s billions used to build this collection were also the sum of profits from Nazi “aryanization” of Jewish department stores.

Helmut Horten worked in a department store when Hitler came to power in 1933. He profited from “aryanization laws” to buy out at a cut price that store from its Jewish owners Strauss and Lauter, who fled to the US... then continued acquiring Jewish-owned shops and department stores. In 1937, by entering the Nazi party and the initials of his name (HH), enhanced his relationship with the regime.

Paris, 2 May 2023

Madam Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission

Madam President,

On behalf of its 440,000 members, the Wiesenthal Centre commends you for celebrating Israel’s 75 years of independence and friendship with the European Union.

In your words: “Today, we celebrate 75 years of vibrant democracy in the heart of the Middle East... Seventy-five years of dynamism, ingenuity, and ground-breaking innovations. You have literally made the desert bloom.”