Wiesenthal Centre Calls on Hollande, Merkel and May: Stop EU Resolution Denying Jewish Ties to Temple Mount"

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"Should this perverse exercise proceed, the condition of Jews across Europe will be clear - abandonment by their own governments...it could beseen as a step towards a new "Kristallnacht - a surrender and endorsement of the most extreme elements of left, right and Jihadist"

Istanbul, 14 July 2016

In letters to French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Theresa May, Simon WiesenthalCentre Director for International Relations, Dr. Shimon Samuels called on all three to, "Press Brussels immediately to halt a European Union draft resolution about to be submitted to the UNESCOWorld Heritage Committee meeting here in Istanbul."

The resolution serves as an alternative to a Palestinian draft in denying the tie between the Jewish People and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem- Judaism's holiest site.

France had publicly regretted its support for a similar resolution passed last April at the UNESCO Executive Board in Paris, while Germany andthe United Kingdom had voted against.

Samuels warned, "Should this perverse exercise proceed, the condition of Jews across Europe will be clear - abandonment by their owngovernments."

The letters stressed, "Such a resolution could be seen as a step towards a new 'Kristallnacht' (the 1938 Nazi pogrom denoted 'the Night ofBroken Glass') - a surrender and endorsement of the most extreme elements of left, right and Jihadist."

The Centre urged the three leaders to order their delegates at the World Heritage Committee to vigourously combat this unthinkable scenariofor, thereafter, will come "the deluge" - a catastrophe for all of Europe.

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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 theUnited States. 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).