Shimon Samuels

The author is director for international relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

 THEN-ARGENTINIAN PRESIDENT Mauricio Macri speaks at an event in Buenos Aires in memory of the victims of the 1994 bombing at the AMIA community center, marking the 25th anniversary of the attack, in 2019.

Seeking justice for the deadly 1994 AMIA bombing - opinion

 The city of Durban in South Africa.

PA commits identity theft regarding South Africa and Namibia -opinion

 SHIMON SAMUELS (right) and the late Alberto Nisman stand alongside the prosecutor’s 2015 diagram of Iran’s terrorist network in South America.

Understanding the Iranian threat across Latin America - opinion


Nazi propaganda at the United Nations - opinion

Peace cannot be bought. But incitement through hostile media keeps the Goebbels fire burning and sadly, the lies persist.

THEN-US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell attends a rally protesting anti-Israel bias outside the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, in 2019.

Wiesenthal Center commends Swiss justice in Dieudonné case - opinion

Dieudonné has mutated into a political polemicist and is bent on defaming, denying and deriding the Holocaust and Jews – for which he has been tried in court many times

 DIEUDONNE M’BALA M’BALA raises hands with fans near a Paris theater, which canceled his show in February 2004 fearing his performance would spark protests by anti-racist and Jewish groups.

An appeal to the UN human rights commissioner - opinion

Sadly, not enough is done regarding human rights abuses and war crimes by Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria and China. Only Israel – and by association, the Jews – are treated as the Devil incarnate.

 UN HIGH COMMISSIONER for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet attends a special session of the UN Human Rights Council on the situation in Ukraine at the UN in Geneva earlier this month.

The consequences of ‘deals’ with antisemitic terror

European governments struck 'deals' with Palestinian terrorists, in exchange for what was deemed 'limited' concessions and collateral damage, but In too many cases that meant expendable Jewish lives.

 ROME’S GREAT SYNAGOGUE. The 1982 attack was claimed to be a surprise to Italian authorities, though they had been warned of threats to Jewish targets in Italy.

Is the 'Star of Italy' decorating the glory of Palestinian terror? - opinion

The educational deficit is a persistent obstacle to any form of dialogue with their Israeli neighbors and, by association, with Jews – and not only Jews.

The Italian flag waves over the Quirinal Palace in Rome, Italy May 30, 2018

Antisemitic Laureates should not be celebrated - opinion

Agatha Christie, T.S. Eliot, Roald Dahl and Céline are among the most famous antisemitic laureates, so why are they still celebrated?

Roald Dahl

Morocco, Algeria and Israel on peace anniversary - opinion

An important background impacting the Accords is the historic status of Jews in Algeria and Morocco, an indicator of each of these two countries’ contemporary attitudes toward Israel.

 FOREIGN MINISTER Yair Lapid speaks at a news conference in Rabat, Morocco, last month

The Cairo Book Fair remains rife with antisemitism - opinion

This May, in the spirit of the Abraham Accords, Abu Dhabi's book fair was totally clean. This was not the case in Egypt.

THE SHOUROUK bookstore features the bestselling hate books from the Cairo International Book Fair 2021.

Rejecting IHRA antisemitism definition is a return to dark past - opinion

An open letter to the mayor of Strasbourg, France, which is the only city to reject IHRA antisemitism definition on "anti-Zionist" grounds.

FLOWERS ARE placed near memorials where the gas chamber once stood, at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in Natzweiler, France, in 2015.

Remembering the the Jews of MENA on Holocaust Remembrance Day

On this Yom Ha’Shoah / International Holocaust Commemoration Day on January 27, we should contemplate what the fate of MENA Jewry would have been had German general Rommel won the Desert Campaign.

DESERT WANDERINGS: The Jewish Nation’s beginnings.