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    Together Against War in Ukraine
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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”
  • Paris Town Hall Illumination to honour  victims of terror in Jerusalem
    Paris Town Hall Illumination to honour victims of terror in Jerusalem
  • Exhibition Opening Copenhagen
    Exhibition Opening Copenhagen
  • Dr. Shimon Samuels meeting Pope Francis
    Dr. Shimon Samuels meeting Pope Francis
  • Inauguration Place Simon & Cyla Wiesenthal
    Inauguration Place Simon & Cyla Wiesenthal
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News Releases 2023

Warsaw, 19 April 2023

The Polish Jews who left their country in 1968 annually meet in Israel, on occasion addressed by the Wiesenthal Centre’s Director for International Relations, Dr Shimon Samuels.

This year, they met on the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, by invitation of Poland’s Presidential Chancellery.

19 April 2023
(top, left to right) the daffodil/stars; Polish youth with daffodils; Samuels laying the wreath.
(below, left to right) Samuels with Head of Polish Presidential Chancellery; the Simon Wiesenthal Centre’swreath;
Samuels with Rabbi Carlebach and New Jersey State Police officers; Samuels with wreath of the State of Israel.

Paris, 29 March 2023

“Two Pakistanis, aged 27 and 29, were arrested last night in Athens, following investigative cooperation between Israeli Mossad and Greek security forces,” stated Wiesenthal Centre’s Director for International Relations, Dr Shimon Samuels.

“According to sources, the two men were part of a terror network connected to Iran. They had already planned and were ready to carry out a murderous attack on Jews in Athens through the Passover.”

We recall some of the past attacks on Jews by Pakistani terrorists:

Paris, 24 March 2023

Dr Shimon Samuels, the Wiesenthal Centre’s Director for International Relations, recalled his conversation with French Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, regarding her father’s Jewish family and her plan to fight antisemitism and all forms of hate.

Dear Madam,

We call on you to take measures against the so-called “Freeze Corleone”, whose appearance at last week’s rap festival in Rennes was applauded by thousands of young spectators.

Paris, 21 March 2023

The 20th Anniversary Conference of the BNVCA (French National Bureau of Vigilance Against Antisemitism) at the National Assembly saw the Chief Rabbi of France, several political representatives, philosophers, experts and journalists discuss the evolution of antisemitism in France.

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Shimon Samuels (right) speaking on panel with philosopher Shmuel Trigano (left). Photo Alain Azria

Paris, 21 March 2023

The case of four Arabic-speaking journalists audited and sanctioned by France24 and its umbrella company France Médias Monde is provoking ripples throughout French media.

The newspaper of record, Le Monde, reported that “The French international channel had been berated by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, alerted by a CAMERA investigation report...”
See: https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2023/03/15/france-24-sanctionne-une-journaliste-et-en-rappelle-a-l-ordre-trois-autres-pour-des-tweets-antisemites_6165617_3234.html