Murderous attack on the Fogel family – Where is the United Nations?
"Where is the United Nations and theSecurity Council, always so eager to pass resolutions condemning Israel? When will they have the courage to pass the first UN resolution condemning Islamic terrorism andcontinuous incitement and hatred of Jews?" –Rabbi Marvin Hier
Center officials called on the UN to act following the murder of innocent members of the Fogel family, parents Udi and Ruthi Fogel, Yoav, their 11 year-oldson, Elad, their four year-old son and 3 month-old daughter Hadas, who were brutally murdered in their Itamar home on the West Bank Read more...
SWC solidarity with people of Japan
“On behalf of the 400,000 members of the Simon WiesenthalCenter, we extend our solidarity with our friends and the people in Japan in their greatest hour of need... we urge our members to participate in supporting reliefefforts through all appropriate agencies…” – Rabbis Hier and Cooper
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has sent a message of solidarity and support in both English and Japanese to the people of Japan while at the same time urging its members toparticipate in the relief effort Read more...
Anti-Israel Film Screened at the UN ”…when the General Assembly Hall was used for the first time to screen a pro-Palestinian film, this marked another sad day inthe 63-year-old history of the UN's bias against the state of Israel…Now the UN wants to extend the anti-Israel bias to the cultural and arts world as well.” –Rabbi Marvin Hier
After a screening at the United Nations General Assembly of Miral, a film directed by noted American director Julian Schnabel that portrays an anti-Israel view of theMideast conflict, the Center protested the UN’s anti-Israel bias Read more...
Safeguarding and Standing with Threatened Jewish Communities
“…Jews are a primary target for hate crimes and terrorists…”- Rabbi Abraham Cooper
Following a spate of recent of anti-Semitic intimidation and threats in Malmo, Simon Wiesenthal Center officials returned to Sweden to meet with key political, Jewishand Muslim leaders (pictured), and top law enforcement officials Read more...
Neo-Nazi marches in Vilnius & Riga: “The worst type of anti-Semitic incitement” “Such demonstrations… are especially insulting to the country’s Jewish citizens, many of whom are Holocaustsurvivors. To see hundreds of young people marching with Lithuanian flags and swastikas down the main avenue of the capital of a member of the European Union and NATO isenough to send shivers down the spine of any person with a knowledge of Lithuanian history during the years 1941-1945 ...” – Dr. Efraim Zuroff
The Center harshly criticized the failure of the Lithuania’s political, intellectual, and religious leadership to condemn two separate neo-Nazi marches inVilnius and Riga by neo-Nazis and members of the Waffen-SS in the last few days Read more...
As the festival of Purim approaches, we, at the Simon Wiesenthal Center continue to be vigilant by standing with threatened Jewish communities around the world,confronting anti-Semitism, Holocaust revision, and fighting against the delegitimization of Israel.
