[Jewish] Wiesenthal Center fights antisemitism at World Social Forum held in Brazil

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Simon Wiesenthal Center



 
  
   
     
     
	Antisemitism & U.S. and Israel Bashing Permeate World Social Forum in Brazil
    
     
     
	  
        
        





Amid an anti-Jewish climate permeated by U.S. and Israel bashing, displays of 
antisemitism, and physical assaults on Jewish participants, the Simon 
Wiesenthal Center was the only international Jewish non-governmental 
organization participating in the recent World Social Forum held in Porto 
Alegre, Brazil.

Throughout the city, a well coordinated, international solidarity campaign was 
launched by the Palestinian Social Forum with their distribution of violently 
anti-U.S. posters, anti-Israel tee shirts and diaries praising suicide bombers 
(see photos).


Dr. Shimon Samuels, the Center's International Liaison and Sergio Widder, Latin 
American Representative, expressed concern over the safety of the city's Jewish 
community to Porto Alegre's mayor and asked that he "raise his voice to condemn 
the antisemitism that has invaded the city."  They added that the anti-Israel 
poster campaign that appeared throughout the city in three languages reinforced 
"the anti-Jewish atmosphere at the World Social Forum endangering Porto 
Alegre's small Jewish community." 


At the same time, Center officials protested to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio 
Lula da Silva over the pending ruling in the Supreme Court over a Holocaust 
denial publisher who has asked the court to cancel his sentence on the grounds 
that "his incitement to antisemitism is not a racist crime as Jews are not a 
race."  Samuels and Widder asked that the President take measures to ensure 
that Brazil's Supreme Court not "be abused in the service of hate" and "to 
personally condemn incitement to antisemitism as a racist crime."

For more information, or to view the photo gallery from the World Social Forum, 
go to www.wiesenthal.com







 
  
   
    
 
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