Simon Wiesenthal Center
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Confronting antisemitism, hate, standing with Israel, defending the safety of Jews worldwide, teaching the lessons of the Holocaust
Joined July 2009
Popular Korean Band Whose Japan Performance Was Cancelled For T-Shirt Mocking A-Bomb Victims, Once Posed With Nazi SS Death Head Symbols, Flew Nazi-Like Flags At Concert #BTS
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Alarming incident at Orly Airport, Paris: A taxi driver verbally assaulted a Jewish family from Israel shouting “If I had taken you, I would have slit the throat of you, your wife, and your children” in French and Arabic. 1/2
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Wiesenthal Centre Slams Spanish Television for Inviting Neo-Nazi Leader to Prime Time Programme.
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Abigail Shrier is right to raise the alarm. No entity, government or private sector should make itself the censor of books and ideas for the rest of us. That is the core and foundation of totalitarianism. @AbigailShrier
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Dear @johncusack - Jesus was born and died a Jew. To compare Jesus to the #Hamas mass murderers, rapists, and hostage-takers desecrates everything Jesus stood for. John - there is good and evil in the world. You have inverted the truth and perverted the legacy of faith, humanity,.
Jesus was a Palestinian carpenter . And yes he lives under the rubble of Gaza today. Re-crucified by another empire in every murder . Personal opinion⬇️.he could not have been a capitalist. “ The hypocrisy of the western work is transparent and apparent weaponizing the.
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100% of proceeds of #TerminateHate t-shirt go to #SWC-fight hate spread tolerance @musoftolerance TY @Schwarzenegger
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Millions of Americans agree with @PahlaviReza. @POTUS stop propping up an evil regime in the hope you can reform them - it will never happen. Stand with the beleaguered people of #Iran. #IranRevolution #MahsaAmini.
The Islamic Republic is firing on students at #Iran's #Sharif_University. Yet, reports indicate the US may send this criminal regime billions yet again. @POTUS, you have yet to help our people. At least don't fund the bullets piercing the hearts of our youth!. #MahsaAmini
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If @RyanAir considers Tel Aviv to be in Palestine then perhaps they should only do business with the Palestinian Authority. Israel and Israelis can make their own way to and from the Jewish state.
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Shame on @BigHitEnt as another of its k-pop groups embrace #Nazi symbols. SWC efforts to educate company useless then apology useless now. Knowingly denigrate 6 million Jews murdered in WWII Nazi Holocaust; boosts today’s racist neo-Nazis.
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Chicago- @NikkiHaley receiving the SWC’s highest honor, the Humanitarian Laureate Award, from Rabbi Marvin Hier and .#SWC Trustee Dawn Arnall for her courage and compassion in protecting global human rights and the State of #Israel
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"Kanye West’s release of a song entitled ‘Heil Hitler’ on VE Day, the anniversary of the defeat of the Nazi regime, is hate speech, pure and simple—totally in line with the despicable messages we now expect from West. But his partner in spreading dangerous vitriol against Jews.
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Reasonable people can disagree on Israel’s tactics in its response to the Oct 7th massacres of is people. @senwarren use of the term “genocide” is an insult to the victims of real genocide. Israel’s goal is to defeat Hamas. Hamas’ goal is to murder every Israeli. That is the.
Elizabeth Warren says she believes Israel’s war in Gaza will legally be considered a genocide
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.@NBA can spare us their selective hypocritical moral lessons on social Justice. Caved to the Chinese Communist party because @EnesFreedom Kanter had the guts to speak up for #Uighurs. via @dailycaller.
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Warrior #YitzchakRabin shook hands w/ PLO chief Yasser Arafat in hopes that Oslo Accord would bring peace—a hoped-for peace that he paid for with his life. Apparently any reminder that Israelis seek peace doesn’t fit @RepAOC AOC narrative. She’s the loser
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SWC denounces @GretaThunberg for facilitating the pollution of hate+harmful tropes against Jews on the streets of a European Capitol where Jews were deported and gassed by the Nazis. 1/2
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.@Schwarzenegger's father was a Nazi. Arnold has always been a quintessential anti-Nazi. G-d Bless all his efforts combating hate and unabashedly standing with the Jewish people everywhere. SWC is proud to call him our friend and supporter!
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On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, #Ireland’s President Michael Higgins hijacked a commemoration of the #Holocaust to comment on Israel’s war against Hamas. When Jewish historian Lior Tibet (among others) turned her back to protest the untimely remarks, she
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Corbyn-Led UK Labour Party #1 on Simon Wiesenthal Center 2019 Top Ten Anti- Semitic List. Read: Daily Mail & The Mail on Sunday
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Today marks 16th anniversary of passing of legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal who brought more than 1100 Nazi war criminals to justice. An architect by profession, Mr. Wiesenthal sought justice for 89 family members, 6 million Jews+millions of non-Jews murdered by the Nazis.
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SWC agrees with Ambassador @RichardGrenell Intl @Olympics Authority and Japan’s Olympic Authority should ban #Iran regimes that torture and execute its own peace-seeking athletes. Islamic regime’s presence would mock Olympic ideals
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SWC demands that he be prosecuted for verbal terrorism to the full extent of the law. 2/2.
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This is not about #Gaza anymore. It's about cursing Jews and intimidating the Jewish community. #Antisemitism.
L.A. - as Jews were lighting candles last night for Shabbat and the second night of Hanukkah, mobs of antisemites took to the streets to chant antisemitic slogans and graffiti buildings, including Synagogues. This particular location is the epicenter of Persian Jewish life on
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SWC salutes @HillelNeuer on the frontlines in defense of the Jewish people and human rights in Geneva.
What a whirlwind week in Washington: bringing our case against UNRWA before U.S. Congress, then CNN, ABC News, Fox & more. See: Thank you to everyone for your support! 🙏. Now heading to Israel to collect evidence for my upcoming appearance before the UN.
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In solidarity with British Jewry, the SWC will be participating in the 48-hour @Twitter walkout, officially beginning 9 a.m. on Monday. Please check our other social media feeds for news and updates. #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate via @nbcnews.
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Welcome to the thoroughly corrupt world of chiefs of elite institutions - @Penn - who are facilitating the purging of a Jewish presence on campuses as they continue to hide level of funding from #Qatar and other foreign donors.
The self-righteous, arrogant smile on Liz Magill of @Penn says it all. Shocking testimony from this so-called educator. What is going to happen to our incredible country with someone like this shaping the hearts & minds of our students? All those involved with @Penn MUST SPEAK
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#SWC :#Hitler-Praising Plastic Surgeon Expelled From Prestigious Cosmetic Surgeons Association @katsuyatakasu #Holocaust #nanjingmassacre #WW2
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Enough is enough. #SusanSarandon has embraced forces who intimidate and threaten Jews and the pro-#Hamas narrative. SWC rejects her hateful rants. Thanks @UTA for doing the right thing.
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The @Harvard student who physically accosted an Israeli student & penned an op-ed celebrating Palestinian terror is still in good standing - at Harvard’s Divinity School no less. Harvard effectively says that physical assaults & celebration of terror are not allowed - unless.
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Sometimes a single voice is the strongest. Karoline Preisler (@PreislerKa) leads by example, showing how Jews and non-Jews can stand up for the hostages’ return. She’s repeatedly endangering herself by standing alone in anti-Israel rallies, often requiring police protection. The.
Meet Karoline Preisler, 53, a German Democratic politician has been called "Germany's Bravest Protester" for standing up for Jews while surrounded by protesters calling for her death. She's not even Jewish or Israeli. That's true allyship!
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Apology not accepted! @IlhanMN breathless, cynical and targeted use of #antisemitic tropes, no slip of the tongue. She can’t fathom why any American would support #Israel - a nation she hates.
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The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (@LemkinInstitute) is desecrating the name of Raphael Lemkin and the word "genocide" by falsely labeling the Gaza war as "genocide." Lemkin was a Jewish lawyer who coined the term “genocide” and dedicated his life to exposing the.
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SWC is grateful to @DanRather iconic American journalist and commentator for half a century, for tackling #Antisemitism.
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Necessary move. Sad reality that in 2020, Americans must confront terrorism not only from ISIS etc. but from domestic terrorists seeking to violently to destroy American society and those who protect us.
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Unprecedented move by Japanese government against #Hamas. It is a blow against all terrorists who divert funding from donor nations, including Japan, to invest for numerous purposes, including terrorism and personal enrichment. Other nations must follow suit.
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46% of Muslims in France support Oct 7th savagery. Where does that leave French Jewry?.
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American Jews and New York taxpayers didn’t entrust their institutions of higher learning to empower and promote bigotry and #Antisemitism. Accountability not excuses. Law firms should bar this law graduate Jew-hater. @CUNY via @JNS_org.
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What a disgrace by the #Oscars2024 winner #JonathanGlazer. Kudos to Rabbi Lehrfeld. He enunciates the questions everyone wants answers to.
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Repeat a lie often enough, keep posting on social media, add Iran state-sponsored denial and new generations with zero collective memory of the past and here we are. Help @simonwiesenthal change those numbers!
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Stop lecturing Israelis about the plight of Palestinians. Want peace? Start demanding Palestinians end nonstop brainwashing of their children into a culture of death and celebration of genocidal violence and murder of Jews.
The father (and uncle) of the two Palestinians suspected of carrying out the shooting attack near Hebron: "We are proud of our sons."
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Mayor Brandon Johnson (@ChicagosMayor) denied permits for pro-Israel protesters at the DNC while allowing pro-Palestinian protests. Pro-Israel demonstrators had to gather on a private lot nearby. This double standard disrespects the Jewish community and may embolden anti-Israel.
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Everything fundamentally wrong at @UN. Allow kangaroo courts and resolutions against a member state by terrorists who mass murdered, raped, kidnapped and held 200+ hostages - including a 3-year-old. Beyond belief. @antonioguterres
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Not sure if Representative @IlhanMN knows the difference between a President and Prime Minister but one thing is clear, she hates the State of Israel.
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It's deeply disturbing that @amnesty has an openly antisemitic post pinned to the top of their page. Amnesty International (AI) represents everything wrong with human rights NGOs. It serves as a tipping point for anti-Israel and antisemitic tropes, which are then recycled by
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Scope and depth of @RealCandaceO lack of knowledge of basic history is appalling and frightening. #Hitler’s program to make #Germany great was based on race and #antisemitism! via @jdforward.
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Today, Kanye West made a series of rambling, antisemitic and misogynistic posts on X, where he has 32 million followers. If this does not cross a red line, then what does? . How social media platforms respond will be very telling. Your move X. @elonmusk.
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Where was the UN Secretary General @antonioguterres when Russia invaded Ukraine? Now he is desperate to save mass murdering #HamasTerrorists?
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Our hearts are broken to see - within our lifetime - an organization embracing and promoting the genocide of the Jewish nation of Israel.
Protesters brandish swastikas at pro-Palestinian rally outside Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting
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Desecrates memory of #AnneFrank and 1.5 million #Jewish children mass murdered by #Nazis. Don’t like US law? Change it! But don’t demonize #ICE agents doing their job. via @MailOnline.
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Shame on Frankfurt authorities and Mercedes Benz arena in Berlin — a place from where Jews were deported by the Nazis — for providing anti-Semite #RogerWaters this venue for his concert with no concern/care for the Jewish community.
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Do you know how Jewish power has destroyed the Constitution of the United States?. Watch the Full Video of The Honorable Minister @LouisFarrakhan’s Saviours’ Day 2023 address “The War of Armageddon Has Begun” . #Farrakhan #SD2023
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Violent attacks against Jewish communities worldwide continue unabated. Hamas continues to urge attacks on Jews everywhere.
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Everything wrong with Sweden is encapsulated in one picture. Monstrous Hamas - a genocidal, terrorist, anti-Jewish, organization whose founding Charter invokes Protocols of Zion convenes in #Malmö. SWC travel advisory on that city stands.
Sweden's ex-governing Social Democrats deny attending this week's Hamas conference in Malmö. Yet, their MP Jamal El-Haj, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, can be seen sitting next to Amin Abu Rashid, a known Hamas operative in Europe.
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Majority Leader Schumer would better be serving peace if he called for an end to the Iranian regime, the Hamas terrorist mass murdering and mass raping regime in Gaza, and a PA government that has passed a pay-to-slay-Jews law that financially rewards murder and maiming.
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What we experienced outside #AdasTorah #synagogue in #LosAngeles yesterday was no mere hate crime but domestic terrorism. It is high time that federal law enforcement start connecting the dots, wherever they may lead.
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#Hitler-Praising Plastic Surgeon Under Investigation, Leading American Academy Tells #SWC @katsuyatakasu
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These are the darkest of times for the Jewish people. We have not witnessed such tragedy since the Holocaust, close to eighty years ago. 1/4
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In Amsterdam, anti-Semites are demanding people show their passports to prove they are not #Israeli—an alarming similarity to events that preceded the #Holocaust. It is no longer safe for #Jews in #Amsterdam. The #Dutch government must act immediately.
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Roger, your slip is showing. Interesting choice of Jew-hating words from @rogerwaters – know the man who swears he’s no anti-Semite, just anti-Zionist – maybe expect for that inflated pig with star of David, etc.
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When Japan allowed #Antisemitism to go unchallenged in 1980s/90s, #daisakuikeda stretched out his hand to help SWC bring four exhibitions that were viewed by millions of Japanese. SWC condolences to his family/friends as they mourn loss of iconic leader.
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Important statement but as a major donor, #Japan needs to urgently convene a formal review of @UN_RWA’s teachings and investigate its relationship in Gaza with #HamasTerrorist
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You can know a person and a country by their friends and by their enemies. #Azerbaijan is our friend.
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The Biden Administration has called for Francesca Albanese to be removed from the UN due to her persistent anti-Semitism and demonization of Israel. @RepAndreCarson should not be inviting her to Congress.
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Rabbi Marvin Hier + Rabbi Abraham Cooper thank longtime supporter/SWC friend Arnold @Schwarzenegger for his latest video, inspired as a result of a visit to #Auschwitz, where he talks directly to young people who are influenced + impacted by online bigotry, hate + #Antisemitism.
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There is growing alarm that Jews can be attacked with impunity not only in France and UK but across Europe, US, and Canada, with perpetrators confident they won’t be punished. Not just police - but justice system - must jail and prosecute.
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SWC is grateful to @SenFettermanPA for his profound support of Israel and the Jewish people.
In my front office I have displayed the posters of the innocent Israelis kidnapped by Hamas. They will stay up until every single person is safely returned home.
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It would be helpful if the @WhiteHouse strategy on #Antisemitism was applied to any and all espousing anti-Semitic views.
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Congrats to the #first Ambassador to Israel from #Azerbaijan. We hope that his appointment will deepen the friendship between the two people and inspire other Muslim-majority countries to follow Azerbaijan's lead.
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These are the atrocities that pro-Hamas campaigners are endorsing+excusing? These are the atrocities that Women’s groups maintain stoic silence because their perpetrators are Palestinians and victims Israeli Jews? No words for their perfidy.
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An ISIS supporter just murdered a German tourist and wounded others in #Paris. Instead of running to the Middle East to tell Israel how to conduct its war against #Hamas, @EmmanuelMacron should focus on the very real threats at home from Islamist terrorists.
Macron in Dubai just now: “I think we have reached a moment when the Israeli authorities will have to define more clearly what their final objective is. The total destruction of Hamas? Does anybody think that’s possible? If it’s that, the war will last ten years”
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder of The Art of Living Foundation To Be Honored By Wiesenthal Center; In Dialogue With Holocaust Survivor, Renowned Political Scientist, And Rabbi on Monday at Museum of Tolerance at 11:00am @ArtofLiving #SWC
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Using her status as US Representative, @RashidaTlaib is an out of control, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel fanatic.
.@RashidaTlaib continues to traffic in #Antisemitism by calling #Israel, the country an apartheid. Roughly 1.9M Arabs live in Israel. They run banks, businesses & NGO's. They serve on the Supreme Court, Knesset & in local governments. What Apartheid is Rashida talking about?
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Kudos to @adidas for breaking ties with @kanyewest who continues to spread his Jew hatred to tens of millions of followers becoming the darling of white supremacists and Neo-Nazis. He deserves to be shunned for his hate.
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The central issue is why German authorities allow this serial anti-Semite and avowed hater of Israel -@rogerwaters - to be allowed to come to Germany to inject his hate into the mainstream of the country beset by daily acts of #Antisemitism?.
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Hamas knew the bombing came from failed Palestinian Islamic Jihad and decided to blame Israel and considering the fact that many diplomats and mainstream media repeated the blood libel spoon fed by Hamas, spreading anti-Semitism, .
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@icecube Shame, two years ago we met with @icecube to turn a new page. Now when it counts, instead of using his notoriety to promote peace in a fractured America he regresses to classic #antiSemitic tropes.
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Thanks to @SenTedCruz AND @SenTomCotton for resolution calling on #US to recognize #Israeli sovereignty on #GolanHeights. Jewish presence goes back thousands of years.
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Sorry cannot walk back blatant anti-Semitism on display. Consequences?.
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Close @UNRWA permanently and end refugee welfare state in order to empower Palestinian peace-seekers to run education.
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This unhinged woman should not be trusted to have any contact with any patients. Animalization of Jews+promoting Blood Libel against them - when it was #HamasTerrorists who horrifically murdered+mutilated Israeli infants+hold over 30 Israeli children hostage a month later in Gaza.
NYC - we are horrified to see Physician's Assistant Mariam Abdelghany with @NYCHealthSystem share a graphic on Instagram portraying a Jew depicted as an animal eating a baby, with what appears to be a Palestinian child watching from the side. Abdelghany's NYC Health System
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Perhaps the world wants to forget what #HamasTerrorists inflicted on Israeli women on #October7. The Jewish people haven’t and will not forget or forgive these crimes against humanity.
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Japan has moral obligation to immediately share the actual facts.
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Bahrain + SWC International Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration with Global Peacemakers Led by Israel President Herzog.#InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay .
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Throughout his monumental tenure as US ambassador in Germany @RichardGrenell was bane of #antiSemites, Nazis, and apologists for genocide-seeking Holocaust-denying #AyatollahKhamenei and #Hezbollah. Important addition to #USHMM.
@zacharylipton @JoeBiden @RichardGrenell Did you have any problems when @brhodes, who enabled the Syria genocide and embraced Holocaust-denying Iran, was appointed to the role? @RichardGrenell has been unwavering in fighting Antisemitism and actually kicked out real Nazis from America.
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If South Africa was truly committed to calling out a real genocide it need not look further than the continuing murder of Christians by Boko Haram and other Muslim terrorists in Nigeria. Instead it chooses to pummel the lone Jewish state for defending its people from.
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