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Wiesenthal Centre publishes top ten antisemitism list for 2022 

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre released its annual Global antisemitism Top Ten list in Jerusalem...reports Benjamin Weinthal. The Wiesenthal list included an exclusive JNS report...

Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem welcomes Wollongong Council’s decision on donor’s Nazi past

Dr Efraim Zuroff, the Coordinator of  Simon Wiesenthal Centre Nazi war crimes research worldwide, has said the Centre welcomes the decision...

Auschwitz survivor, 98, wins Simon Wiesenthal Prize for Holocaust education

A survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp who became a social-media celebrity thanks to her great-grandson was one of...

Wiesenthal Centre lists 10 worst antisemitic incidents in 2020

From the “weaponization” of COVID-19 against Jews to tweets by Iran’s Supreme Leader, there was no shortage of candidates, says Wiesenthal Centre associate dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper.

Corbyn-led British Labour Party named No. 1 antisemitic threat worldwide

The list is normally published in late December or early January, but was released early this year, perhaps due to the elections on Dec. 12.

Jewish NGO condemns ‘wholesale misappropriation’ of Holocaust amid outcry over US border policy

Sean Savage: “We have to learn lessons from the past, but one of the fundamental lessons is that not everything is an Auschwitz,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre.

Australia disappoints

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has released the initial findings of its twelfth Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals, which covers the period from April 1, 2012 until March 31, 2013 and awarded grades ranging from A (highest) to F to evaluate the efforts and results achieved by more than three dozen countries which were either the site of Nazi crimes or admitted Holocaust perpetrators after World War II. Australia scored an F and "the most disappointing result".