Editorials
Open letter by Dr. Shimon Samuels published in The Jerusalem Post
6 May 2018
https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/An-open-letter-to-Jeremy-Corbyn-553588
“As leader of the British Labour Party, your silence has endorsed a new form of hate: antisemitic sexual abuse.”
Britain’s opposition Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn (photo Peter Nicholls/Reuters)
Mr. Corbyn,
As a Labour Party member, my uncle, Simon Bromberg in 1936, had joined in fighting off the British Union of Fascists – against the Oswald Mosley Blackshirts – in the so-called “Battle of Cable Street,” in London’s heavily Jewish East End.
Born at the end of the World War II, I was raised acutely aware that 25 miles of water – the British Channel – had saved my family from the Holocaust on the opposite shore.
Op-Ed by Dr. Shimon Samuels published in The Jerusalem Post
5 February 2018
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Polands-Shoah-policy-precursor-to-a-new-Holocaust-revisionism-540755
Auschwitz (photo publicdomainpictures.net)
In November 2011, the Palestinians entered UNESCO, thus beginning a period of mayhem in the form of Jewish and Christian ID theft.
Two weeks after their entry, a high-level Simon Wiesenthal Centre delegation visiting Paris met with then UNESCO director-general, Irina Bokova, who immediately acceded to its request. Following exhibitions held by the Vatican and Saudi Arabia, now it was the turn of the Jews to set the record straight, with an exhibition titled “People Book Land – The 3,500 Year Relationship of the Jewish People with the Holy Land.”
Blog by Shimon Samuels posted on The Times of Israel
<http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/unesco-the-road-to-the-abyss>
3 May 2017
On Israel’s 69th Independence Day, the 58 member-states of the UNESCO Executive Board voted yet another pro-Palestinian resolution denying Israeli/Jewish ties to Jerusalem.
The resolution passed as expected with 22 votes ‘yes’ to 10 votes ‘no’ ( Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Paraguay, St.Kitts Nevis, Togo, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States) marking the disunity of the European Union and African,Caribbean and Latin American possibilities for breakthrough.
Following the vote,Germany exulted at recognition in the text of Jerusalem, Hebron and Bethlehem as holy for the three monotheistic religions. Argentina noted the political content that has its place elsewhere. Brazil concurred. The United States condemned deepening politicization that erodes UNESCO’s prestige. Sweden recognized efforts of Palestinian and Jordanian amendments adding that, as European unity was impossible we voted yes. The Israeli Ambassador, wrapped in an Israeli flag, exclaimed ‘here we are and here we Stay’. Jordan stressed that on the Holy sites of Jerusalem both Muslim and Christian sites are of highest priority. The Palestinians closed with this vote will not change our policy. We will continue to fight for Palestine and Jerusalem.
More worrying was the little-noticed vote for the follow up “cultural” resolution 31 on “Israeli military confrontations in the Gaza Strip…prevention of Palestinian school children and students from exercising fully their right to education…Israeli censorship of the Palestinian curricula of schools and universities in East Jerusalem…calling on UNESCO to preserve the human, social and cultural fabric of the occupied Syrian Golan…”
This resolution passed 18 ‘yes’ to 1 ‘no’ (the United States) with 39 abstentions
The next step in this exponential I.D. theft of the Jewish and Christian narratives will take place at the July UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Krakow, Poland where its 21 member-states will vote yet again on Jerusalem and possibly – on the Palestinian wish-list – Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The most dramatic events, however, will happen in November at the General Conference of all member-states. There the new Director-General will be elected – a hot favourite being the Minister of Culture of Qatar Likewise, the new Chairpersons of the General Conference and of the Executive Board will be appointed.The hot tickets – wait for it!
-For General Conference: Saudi Arabia
-For Executive Board: Iran (this is no nightmare… it is for real!)
At that moment, UNESCO will stand at the edge of the abyss. Will it take a giant step forward?
Op-Ed by Shimon Samuels published in the Jerusalem Post
28 December 2016
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Obama-after-Obama-476600
President Barack Obama walks from the rostrum after speaking at the Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 21. Photo Reuters
The UN move may be seen as an indication to the career of “Obama after Obama.”
The UN Security Council resolution was hardly a surprise (see the December 1 Jerusalem Post oped by this author, “Last Night I had the Strangest Dream”).
Op-Ed by Shimon Samuels published in the Jerusalem Post
1 December 2016
http://m.jpost.com/#article=6022QzhCRTUzN0U1MENENDgwRTIyMDgwOEUzODY3OEE0QTI=
Remember the 1960s anti-war folk song, “Last night I had the strangest dream I never dreamed before, I dreamed the world had all agreed to put an end to war”? It was just sullied by 1984 Orwellian “double think.”
Last June, France convened a halfday meeting of 25 invited European and Arab states, plus the United States, to seek a resolution to the Middle East conflict, billed as “the French Peace Initiative” – while markedly announcing that Israel was to be excluded.
Redolent of the Munich Agreement of 1938 reached behind the back of the doomed Czechoslovakia, “Paris 2016 peace” seemed more likely, in “double think”, to presage war at the cost of Israel.
France is bent on holding a brief, full-blown conference to rubber- stamp a draft resolution for the United Nations Security Council that would recognize Palestinian sovereignty and demand Israeli withdrawal, within one year, to the 1949 armistice lines that were effaced by the 1967 Egyptian-Jordanian- Syrian invasion.