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Wiesenthal Center rabbi slams Japanese TV claim Kushner unfit for Iran talks because he is Jewish

Commentator Toru Tamagawa, appearing on Friday’s broadcast of TV Asahi’s Hatori Shinichi Morning Show, questioned whether the special envoy’s Jewish background should have disqualified him.

US President Donald Trump listens, as his son-in-law Jared Kushner speaks, during the inaugural Board of Peace meeting at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, US, February 19, 2026.
Associate Dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper is pictured in his office at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, California December 10, 2015.

Please, no more lectures

A sign of a bank with a Swiss flag reflected on the window's building are pictured on March 20, 2009 in Geneva.

Judge says ‘No case, no ruling’ in Credit Suisse – Simon Wiesenthal Center settlement dispute

Serbian police officers stand guard as people rally to protest police search of Belgrade's university offices after the accidental death of a student last week, in Belgrade, Serbia, March 31, 2026.

'Death to Jews, Vucic' call during Belgrade protest sparks criticism from Serbians, Israelis


Journalist Souad Mekhennet awarded International Leadership Award

While working for the Post, Mekhennet has written about the rise of extremism and terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda and ISIS in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Souad Mekhennet, Frankfurt Book Fair 2017

Frankfurt Book Fair features exhibit on Jewish connection to Israel

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the world's major fair for the print and digital content industry.

Frankfurt mayor Uwe Becker and Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Director for International Relations Shimon Samuels at the 2019 Frankfurt Book Fair.

Hier: Trump’s Kurd policy a ‘major blunder'

Simon Wiesenthal Center head said among Democratic Presidential candidates, Biden is the strong friend of Israel

Dean and Founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Rabbi Marvin Hier

Simon Wiesenthal Center calls on Germany to ban Hezbollah amid terror pledge

Grenell wrote in a firey commentary last week in 'Die Welt' that there is no excuse for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration not to outlaw Hezbollah’s entire movement in Germany.

Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah and Amal movement gesture as they ride in a car in Marjayoun

How Jews have reacted to Trump’s tweets targeting Democratic congresswomen

In a series of follow-up tweets, Trump said the representatives all “hate Israel with a true and unbridled passion” and have “made Israel feel abandoned by the U.S.”

US President Donald Trump waves to the media before boarding Air Force One in Maryland on April 27

Ex-Nazi members lead lectures around Germany giving 'eyewitness' accounts

The lecturers compare "the military struggle of the past in a context with the political struggle of right-wing extremists in the present."

The Nazi regime organized the mass displays of Nazi propaganda and nationalist symbols across Germany during the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics events

Croatia’s capital announces Holocaust memorial, Jews aren’t satisfied

“European countries have marked the killings of Jews on their respective territories with monuments and memorials,” the statement read.

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Wiesenthal Center: Appalled at endorsement of antisemitism by default

The letter was in reference to an incident in July 2014 when a "Turkish-run restaurant in Saint-Nicolas, Flanders, placed a notice in French stating, ‘Entry Permitted to Dogs, but to Zionists never!’

Belgian Minister of Security and Interior, Pieter de Crem

Simon Wiesenthal drawings on display in Vienna

The world knows the late Holocaust syrvivor for his tireless work to bring Nazi criminals to justice. Few remember that before the war, he was trained as an architect.

Simon Wiesenthal drawings in  "Café As" at the Jewish Museum Vienna.

'Time doesn't diminish responsibility' as Nazi guard charged

"The passage of time in no way diminishes the criminal responsibility of those guilty of aiding and abetting the implementation of the Final Solution," stated Ephraim Zuroff of the Wiesenthal Center.

WREATHS ARE seen next to a sculpture during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Warsaw Ghetto Square at Yad Vashem