News Releases 2024
Paris, 30 August 2024
Over the last 15 years, Dr Shimon Samuels, former Director for International Relations of the Wiesenthal Centre, has followed the attempts by the Palestine Football Association (PFA) to expel the Israel Football Association (IFA) from FIFA, the Federation International of Football Associations.
Time and again, he has alerted on spurious politicized claims to this effect, and asked FIFA delegates to limit Palestinian incitement to hatred in the stadiums, with supporters/hooligans shouting racist and antisemitic slogans such as “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the Gas!”
Many countries with ongoing ethnic, religious or political conflicts, found the Palestinian demands to suspend Israel to be a dangerous precedent for themselves.
By Shimon Samuels and Alex Uberti
Paris, 28 August 2024
Last week, the shockwave of 7 October saw the merging of antisemitic hatred and the threat of terrorism also in Europe.
While an Islamist lone wolf was randomly stabbing German citizens in Solingen and a pro-Palestinian Hamas copycat tried to firebomb a synagogue in La-Grande-Motte, France, revolutionary and subversive political movements in Italy were planning a more comprehensive approach to attack Jews and democracy.
In particular, the New Italian Communist Party or (n)PCI presented a list of Jewish and Israeli individuals, companies and institutions to be “isolated, targeted and eliminated”.
Open Letter to the President of ECOSOC (United Nations Economic and Social Council), Amb. Bob Rae, Permanent Representative of Canada
By Shimon Samuels and Alex Uberti
Paris, 26 August 2024
Mr. President,
ECOSOC’s NGO Committee on Ageing (COA) “advocates to lobby governments to convince the Human Rights Council of the need for a Convention to protect the human rights of older persons around the world.”
In this regard, the 34th United Nations International Day of Older Persons Ageing with Dignity will be convened on 7 October 2024.
Paris, 21 August 2024
In a letter to Patricia Bullrich, Argentina ’s Security Minister, Dr Shimon Samuels, former Director for International Relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, congratulated her for the capture of a group of terrorists planning to murder members of the Jewish community in the city of Mendoza, this week. It appears to be an attempt by the Taliban, but could likely be connected to Iran, in the current context of the regime’s murderous intent against Israel – and the Jews by association – through any possible means.
The same had applied in Buenos Aires this January, with two Syrians and a Lebanese plotting attacks in the capital.
In January, we had called on Argentina to renew its request to INTERPOL, regarding the perpetrators of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish Centre in Buenos Aires back in 1994. That terror attack, carried out by Iranian operatives and a Lebanese member of Hezbollah, had left 85 dead and over 300 wounded. Argentine President Javier Milei had followed up to reiterate INTERPOL’s Red Notices on the surviving Iranian terrorists, who have meanwhile become high officials of the Islamic regime.
Iranian suspects of the 1994 AMIA bombing, on Red Notice by INTERPOL.
Report by Dr Shimon Samuels
New Delhi (WHC 46th session), 5 August 2024
UNESCO member-States wait for years for their national cultural treasures to receive World Heritage Status.
Yet, one exception is represented by “Palestine”, that uses the “fast-track” procedure, claiming a “state of danger” to appropriate Jewish and Christian heritage sites and build their own historical narrative from scratch.