Wiesenthal Center Reaction to Beheading of Steven Sotloff

“More horrific proof that the evil of ISIS & its ilk can only be defeated by force,” say Center officials

“The beheading of American journalist Steven Joel Sotloff provides more horrific proof that the evil of ISIS and its ilk can only be defeated by force,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier,founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the Center’s associate dean, adding, “There’s no negotiating with terrorists who behead and slaughter innocents in thename of a religion.”

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