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Oct 1, 2024, 5:45 PM

To Mr. Emmanuel Macron, President of France

An Open Letter to Mr. Emmanuel Macron, President of France From Dr. Shimon Samuels, Former Director for International Relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre Paris, 1 October At the end of World War 1, the Ottoman Empire was partitioned. In 1920, today’s...

Aug 29, 2024, 10:42 AM

UN International Day of Older Persons Ageing with Dignity

UN International Day of Older Persons Ageing with Dignity - Open Letter to the President of ECOSOC (United Nations Economic and Social Council), Amb. Bob Rae, Permanent Representative of Canada Mr. President, ECOSOC’s NGO Committee on Ageing (COA) "advocates to lobby...

Aug 22, 2024, 4:54 PM

Will Argentina Come to the Hague?

In a letter to Patricia Bullrich, Argentina's Security Minister, we congratulated the capture of a group of terrorists planning to murder members of the Jewish community in the city of Mendoza. It appears to be an attempt by the...

Aug 6, 2024, 8:22 AM

A Dangerous New Form of Antisemitism

“Palestine” Claims Jesus as its own World Heritage 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”...

Aug 2, 2024, 12:53 AM

Iraqi President on World Heritage Committee New Delhi

An Open Letter to Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid from the World Heritage Committee 2024 in New Delhi Mr. President, I raised with the Iraqi delegation at the the World Heritage Committee taking place in New Delhi, the safeguarding of the...

Jun 4, 2024, 12:14 AM

The New Mexican President and a Jewish Problem

My family's congratulations to you Madam Claudia Sheinbaum, the first woman in history to become President of Mexico. Our connection is the Colegio de Mexico, where I was a three-year scholar for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the mid-'70s,...

May 22, 2024, 5:02 PM

The ICC infected by political bias

The ICC Infected by Political Bias as Instrument for 'Palestinian' Denial of Jewish Sovereignty “When the International Criminal Court (ICC) was established by the Rome Statute in 1998, we believed that its role would reflect the work of the late...

May 7, 2024, 4:20 PM

A Second Gaza Flotilla of Hate?

Each January, I attended the World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, to discover the forthcoming trends in antisemitism and hate against Israel. In 2010, the WSF was entering its 10th year of activity, with the main theme being...

Jan 11, 2024, 11:22 PM

Hamas terrorists must be placed on Interpol’s ‘wanted’ list

In an open letter to Jürgen Stock, Secretary General of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), we urged the organization to put the leadership and operatives of Hamas on the “Red Notice” list of wanted terrorists. Three months ago, on Saturday 7 October, Hamas perpetrated the deadliest attack on Jews...

Nov 29, 2023, 6:05 PM

The Train Hurtling Towards Us and the Abyss

In March 1979, I was invited to Cairo in my capacity as Deputy Director of the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The occasion was to celebrate the peace treaty between Egypt and...

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About Me

Shimon Samuels is Emeritus Director for International Relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He has served in the IDF. He was Deputy Director of the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, European Director of ADL, and Israel Director of AJC. He was born in UK, where he studied as also Israel, U.S. and Japan.

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