Paris, 3 September 2023

The Wiesenthal Centre Director for International Relations, Dr Shimon Samuels, was invited by MP Alicia Kearns, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, to attend the Parliamentary Intelligence Security Forum in London.

Over 250 participants, out of 67 countries, spent three days discussing “Ominous Security Challenges from Adversarial Actors,” including Illicit Financing, Cyber-Security, Human Trafficking. Money Laundering, Space-Force, AI, Quantum Computing and Energy...

Most cases addressed China, Russia, North Korea and Iran.

Samuels with (left to right): MP Alicia Kearns, Chair of the British Foreign Affairs Select Committee;
Saida Muna Tasneem, High Commissioner of Bangladesh to the United Kingdom;
Ahmed Al Shahrani, Chief of Protocol, Shura Council, Saudi Arabia.

Samuels had suggested the issue of Hate and presented the 5-language editions (English, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic) of the book “Antisemitism: The Generic Hatred”, published under the auspices of UNESCO.

Samuels attending the Parliamentary Intelligence Security Forum.
Presenting the book: (left to right) Bol Gai Deng, from South Sudan; Samuels; Ambe Valentine Ngwa,
from Cameroon; MP Ana Racu, from the Republic of Moldova; Silvia Rosa Matus de la Cruz, of Mexico.

At the conference, interest was expressed to facilitate the publishing of a German edition of the book.

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