Simon Wiesenthal Center to Media: Reject Images of Palestinian Children Dressed as Concentration Camp Victims

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish Human Rights NGO devoted to the memory of the six million Jewish victims murdered in the NaziHolocaust, denounced Hamas’ intention to dress up Friday’s Gaza border-riot participants as concentration camp victims.

“We urge major international media outlets to reject this macabre and hideous ploy to defame the memory of the victims murdered in the Nazi genocide,” said Rabbis Marvin Hier, founder and dean and Abraham Cooper, associate dean and global social action head.

“The European Union, led by Germany, should vehemently protest this latest serial abuse of Palestinian children by Hamas terroristsattempting to attract attention to their weekly riot,” Hier and Cooper added.

“As for Hamas, by dressing up kids as Nazi victims, proves the only god this terrorist organization worships is Moloch, the pagan god ofchild sacrifice, for whom children’s lives are worthless.

When will NGOs and U.N. agencies devoted to protecting children finally raise their voices in protests against Hamas’ barbaric tactics,including the use of civilians, children nonetheless, as human shields and cannon fodder for their endless terrorist campaigns? When will the nations like Japan, who supplied beautiful kites for Palestinian children, protest the useof these kites to set fires in Israeli nature preserves and fields?” Hier and Cooper concluded.

For more information, contact Michele Alkin, Simon Wiesenthal Center Communications Director, 310-739-8063.

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The Simon Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations with over 400,000 member families in the UnitedStates. It is an NGO at international agencies including the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, the OAS, the Council of Europe and the Latin American Parliament (Parlatino).

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