Rabbi Marvin Hier: "United Nations political bias against Israel is not enough, now they want cultural bias as well."

Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and two-time Academy Award winner, commented on last night's screening in the halls of the United Nations General Assembly ofMiral, a film directed by noted American director Julian Schnabel that portrays an anti-Israel view of the Mideast conflict.

“Last night, when the General Assembly Hall was used for the first time to screen a pro-Palestinian film, marked another sad day in the 63-year-old history of the UN's bias against the state ofIsrael,” said Rabbi Hier. “It's bad enough that the 55 Moslem countries in the General Assembly have a virtual lock on the political resolutions there. Now the UN wants to extend that anti-Israelbias to the cultural and arts world as well.”

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