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DeMar DeRozan is a six-time NBC all-star, a devoted family man, and a quiet, unassuming NBA superstar. When he heard in early January that Oron Beilin, one of the victims of the Hamas massacre of Jews at the Nova Music Festival on Oct. 7, was a huge Chicago Bulls fan, he autographed a special jersey for Beilin’s family with Oron’s name and the infinity symbol underneath.It was a simple, graceful act done without fanfare or press coverage. The gesture caught the attention of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which decided to honor DeRozan for his act of kindness. The Simon Wiesenthal...

A leading Jewish advocacy organization has called on the United States and the European Union to end funding of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the wake of today’s terrorist attack against a Jerusalem synagogue which resulted in the murder of four Jewish worshipers. “We speak for all 400,000 constituent families of our human rights NGO to demand that our leaders do more than offer ‘heartfelt condolences’ for such senseless attacks,” said Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, Dean and Founder and Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. “These attacks with knives, axes, guns, and cars by Palestinians are not...

<p>Rabbi Marvin Hier, the founder and Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, has called on President Obama to "name, apologize for, and repudiate" the anonymous official quoted in an Atlantic Magazine article describing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a "chickenshit," The Algemeiner reports.</p>

The conflict between the US-based Wiesenthal Center and Malmö mayor Ilmar Reepalu has taken another acrimonious turn after he was accused of anti-Semitism and echoing "conspiracy theories against Jews in the 1930s". Following a five-day visit to Malmö in southern Sweden, one of the Wiesenthal Centre's representatives, Dr. Shimon Samuels, has penned a letter in which he forwards strongly worded criticism of Reepalu, according to the local Sydsvenskan daily. Samuels has taken offence over Reepalu's comments after Monday's meeting in which he said the responsibility for policing was a matter for the police and the justice ministry in Stockholm. One...

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization, on Friday criticized Israeli President Shimon Peres who paid tribute to Romania for "rescuing 400,000 Jews" during World War II. ... Romania had long denied its participation in the Holocaust, triggering criticism from Israel and Jewish organizations. An international commission of historians set up in 2003 established that some 270.000 Romanian and Ukrainian Jews died between 1940 and 1944, during marshal Ion Antonescu's pro-Nazi regime, while some 25,000 Gypsies were deported, half of whom died.

WIESENTHAL CENTER: IN WAKE OF LATEST PASSOVER SUICIDE ATTACK CHURCHES AND NGOS MUST DROP THEIR ANTI-SECURITY FENCE CAMPAIGN Following today's deadly suicide attack in Tel Aviv by a 16-year old Islamic Jihad bomber from the West Bank which left nine dead and dozens injured, the Simon Wiesenthal Center called on Churches and NGO's to drop their anti-security fence campaign. "Once again, the world reacts with indifference to another mass murder of Jews in the Holy Land on Passover," said Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, Dean and Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. "Today's attack proves yet again that...

Prominent Jewish rights group, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday of using what it said were anti-Semitic remarks and demanded an apology. In a televised Christmas Eve speech, Chavez, a left-winger and a former soldier, said that "minorities, descendants of those who crucified Christ ... have grabbed all the wealth of the world for themselves." Chavez, a Catholic, did not mention the Jewish people and in the same comments referred to the betrayal of Venezuelan liberation hero Simon Bolivar. But the group said his remarks represented central arguments of anti-Semitism -- accusing the Jews of...

The Simon Wiesenthal Center called on Palestinian Authority President Abu Mazen to fire the head of Palestinian TV after Palestinian Television carried a live noon sermon on Friday during which Sheikh Ibrahim Mudairis called Jews a "spreading cancer" and repeated the canard that Jews exaggerated the actual numbers killed by the Nazis during the World War II Nazi Holocaust. The Sheik, speaking in a Gaza Mosque in the presence of uniformed PA police said in part: "The Jews are the cancer spreading all over the world...the Jews are a virus like AIDS hitting human kind...Jews are responsible for all wars...

A Jewish human rights group met Monday with Pope John Paul II, launching a campaign to urge the international community to treat suicide bombing as a "crime against humanity." Calling suicide bombing "the crime of the 21st century," delegation members from the Simon Wiesenthal Center said they will begin lobbying governments for a U.N. resolution so that those who plan the bombings can be brought to justice. "The world turns to you, Your Holiness, to declare such acts as both crimes against God and crimes against humanity," the center's founder, Rabbi Marvin Hier, said in a speech to the pope....

Nov. 21, 2003 Wiesenthal Center: Greece not fighting anti-Semitism By TOM TUGEND A travel advisory urging "extreme caution" for travelers to Greece has been issued by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, in light of the nation's failure to take steps curbing growing anti-Semitism and hate propaganda. Citing a series of anti-Jewish acts, articles and statements in Greece, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the center's associate dean, warned, "Failing a dramatic change in attitude and policy, the current atmosphere of hate and vilification can only escalate and could also poison the environment leading up to the 2004 Olympic Games." Cooper noted that meetings with...