Wiesenthal Center To UN: Blame The Perpetrators, Not The Victims
Wiesenthal Center To UN: Blame The Perpetrators, Not The Victims "It is outrageous that those who have made a career out of...
“The Simon Wiesenthal Center condemns Larry David’s reference to concentration camps and victims of the Holocaust, including women victimsof the Nazi Holocaust, during his monologue on ‘Saturday Night Live’,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, Founder and Dean of the Center andRabbi Abraham Cooper, its Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action Agenda. 
“Whatever his motivation, he succeeded in denigrating the victims of the Shoah and the collective memory of history’s greatestcrime,” the rabbis continued.
“‘Saturday Night Live’ producers should have known better than to clear distasteful and inappropriate statements from both the live andrecorded broadcast,” Hier and Cooper concluded.
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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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