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Germany: People, Book,
Land at Frankfurt Book Fair
For 16 years, the SWC has been the only non-governmental
organization to monitor incitement, hate and violence on the
shelves at the Frankfurt Book Fair. For the first time, government
Canada: State of the Union
Focuses on Anti-Semitism
Global Efforts to Counter Anti-Semitism
France:
A Call for Justice
representatives, religious and Jewish community leaders,
including Frankfurt’s mayor, pictured with SWC International
Affairs Director, Dr Shimon Samuels, gathered for the opening
of the German version of the Center’s traveling exhibition
People, Book, Land: The 3,500 Year Relationship of the Jewish
People and the Holy Land at the Book Fair.
Mexico: Crippling
The BDS Movement
A campaign was launched by the SWC to
stop Pink Floyd founding member, Roger
Waters from performing on tour in Mexico
later this year. Waters, a well known supporter
of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement
targeting Israel has personally urged fellow artists not to perform
there. Businesses in Europe and the Americas, sponsoring and
promoting Waters’ concert, were contacted and urged by the
SWC to cancel their sponsorship of his tour. This led to a decision by
Major League Baseball, to no longer schedule any more advertising
on its platforms for Waters’ tour promotion over his BDS affiliation.
Argentina: Adopting
IHRA To Fight Anti-
Semitism
In Argentina, during the height of anti-
Semitic incidents around the globe, Dr.
Ariel Gelblung, SWC Latin American
Representative met with then-Argentine President Mauricio
Macri to discuss anti-Semitism and ways to address the problem
in the region. Macri is pictured above, looking at a copy of the
SWC’s The Hitler Letter. Dr. Gelblung discussed the imporance of
countries in Latin America adoping the International Holocaust
Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism.
Issues of concern to Jews around the world, including anti-
Semitism, the climate for Jewish students on university
campuses, Middle East peace and the current conflict between
Iran and Israel were addressed at the State of the Union event in
Toronto featuring a dialogue between Natan Sharansky, former
Soviet Union refusenik and dissident, and renowned lawyer
Alan Dershowitz. Sharansky was also honored with the Human
Rights Award from Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center
for Holocaust Studies. Pictured: President and CEO, Canadian
Friends, Avi Benlolo; Rabbi Jarrod Grover; Alan Dershowitz;
Irwin Cotler; Natan Sharansky; SWC Executive Director, Rabbi
Meyer H. May and Friends’ Chairman Fred Waks.
US: Annual
Digital Terrorism +
Hate 2020 Report
simon wiesenthal center
‘the big five’
digitalterrorism+hate
2020 report card
The SWC’s annual Digital Terrorism +
Hate Report was released in Washington,
DC by Homeland Security Chairman Max
Rose (D-NY), Congressmen Christopher
H. Smith (R-NJ) and Thomas Suozzi (D-
NY). The report details the growing list
of alternative platforms enabling white
nationalists and other extremists to expand their
reach and influence, including messaging and gaming sites.
Accompanying the report is the annual report card grading
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and other social media
platforms’ record on blocking hate and terrorism online.
FACEBOOK
GAB
B-
alt-tech
TELEGRAM
F
D
TWITTER
PARLER
BITCHUTE
messaging
DISCORD
SPOTIFY
D
C-
STEAM
C
B
D
F
TWITCH
VK.COM
CANUND
BRIGHTEON
Incomplete
D
D+ B-
C
D
D
TIKTOK
GOOGLE /
YOU TUBE
VOAT
REDDIT
D-
B-
C
iFUNNY
INSTAGRAM
DISQUS
8KUN
(8CHAN)
gaming video / memes
C-
F
SIGNAL RIOT INC.
SNAPCHAT
C-
A rally in Paris called for
justice for murdered Jewish
woman Sarah Halimi, who was
stabbed and thrown out of her
3rd floor window after a Court
of Appeals ruled that her
attacker was, “not criminally
responsible” for his actions because of heavy drug use. The admitted
killer was a Muslim immigrant who forced his way into her apartment in
the middle of the night and brutally murdered her. During the attack,
neighbors heard him reciting verses from the Koran and shouting
anti-Semitic slurs. The SWC has been on the forefront of fighting for
justice in the Halimi case. Dr. Samuels met with French Justice Minister
Nicole Belloubet (pictured above) telling her, “Alcohol, cannabis and
psychiatry must not be used by the French judiciary system as excuses
for perpetrators of anti-Semitic murder and violence.” A new hope in
the fight against anti-Semitism in France came with the adoption of
the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition
of anti-Semitism by France’s National Assembly.
Belgium & Spain:
Modern Day Anti-Semitic and
Holocaust-Themed Carnivals
For the last several years, carnival festivals leading up to
Ash Wednesday in Europe have become infected with anti-
Semitism. At least five parades have featured anti-Semitic,
At the rally for Sarah Halimi with SWC Europe President,
Richard Odier, Dr. Samuels and Center supporters
stereotypcial depictions of Jews. In Alst, Belgium, (L) ultra-
Orthodox Jews were depicted as vermin with long noses
wearing fur hats, eerily reminiscent of how the Nazis and their
collaborators portrayed Jews in the 1930s. In Spain, (above)
a Holocaust-themed parade featured gun-toting soldiers
dressed half as Nazis with the other half as concentration
camp inmates marching in unison, followed by a singer on
a float standing between two smokestacks reminiscent of a
death camp. (See cover photo). Dr. Samuels, who has been
monitoring and protesting these carnivals to authorities said this has become, “A reflection of the growing levels of anti-
Semitism becoming evident in all corners of Europe.”
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