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Shimon Samuels

Shimon Samuels is Director for International Relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Center… [More]. He is based in Paris. [Less]

May 17, 2013
10:25 am

Letter to Kofi Annan the Elder

Mr Kofi Annan, Chairman The Elders Foundation, London, UK Mr Annan, We have noted your election last week in Dublin as Chairman of The Elders, a group billed as "independent global leaders......

January 24, 2013
7:57 am

Holocaust memory as a fig leaf for modern hate

The fall of the Berlin Wall in October 1989 aroused a euphoric debate about the city's post-Communist future. In a Die Zeit op-ed entitled "Berlin as Federal Capital of......

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August 6, 2012
12:25 am

At the Olympics, silence is golden

On the 40th anniversary of the Munich atrocity, we were outraged at the callous refusal by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), to mark a moment of silence -- in......

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May 7, 2012
8:09 pm

French Jews, between the right and the hard left

In May 1981, Valery Giscard d'Estaing's long reign as president of France ended with the election of François Mitterand. Giscard later claimed that he had lost his presidency eight months......

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April 27, 2012
5:02 pm

The people of Saturday and the French elections

Eighty years ago, a series of elections in the inter-war democratic Weimar Republic empowered extremist factions of right and left. Economic disaster, shattered national identity and racial scapegoating were to......

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March 21, 2012
7:37 pm

A letter to Catherine Ashton

Lady Ashton, On behalf of the over 400,000 members of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, we express indignation at your utterly insensitive statement to a Palestinian youth group on Monday, immediately......

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February 28, 2012
9:39 am

‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ — an apology for terrorism

On Saturday night, a controversial work premiered at the English National Opera in London. One hundred and ninety seven members of the press packed the seats -- the entire......

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