SWC Participates in IHRA Plenary Held in London
The Simon Wiesenthal Center just concluded its participation in the Second Plenary of the UK Presidency of the InternationalHolocaust Remembrance...
The Simon Wiesenthal Center condemned PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ use of a classic anti-Semitic canard when he accused Israeli Rabbis of urging the poisoning of 
the wells of Palestinians.
“Invoking a debunked and fraudulent canard that libels his Jewish neighbors at the podium of the European Parliament is proof that PAPresident Abbas has no interest in real peace with his Jewish neighbors,” senior officials of the leading Jewish Human Rights NGO charged.
“Invoking this lie of poisoning the well — in the capital of Europe where such medieval canards led to much Jewishsuffering — was a calculated move that puts the PAPresident in the pantheon of anti-Semites,” Rabbi Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, Founder and Dean and Associate Dean of Wiesenthal Center added.
“Whatever his intentions were in knowingly repeating this outrage, Abbas has proven yet again what Israeli leaders from the Left tothe Right have said — there is no chance of reaching a peace agreement with the current Palestinian leadership.”
“Instead of the standing ovation Abbas received from the EU lawmakers, they should have condemned Abbas’ anti-Semitic BigLie,” SWC officials concluded.
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