SWC in letter to German Justice Minister: “Condemn Anti-Semitism and Threats at Berlin Maccabi Games.” | Simon Wiesenthal Center

SWC in letter to German Justice Minister: “Condemn Anti-Semitism and Threats at Berlin Maccabi Games.” | Simon Wiesenthal Center

“Apprehend those who would return us to 1936.”

In a letter to German Federal Justice Minister, Heiko Maas, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre Director for International Relations, Dr. Shimon Samuels, protested the, “Jew-baiting of Maccabi athletes at the Berlin Games.”

Samuels commended the Minister for, “Welcoming the Maccabi Games to Berlin as a gift that Germany, after the Holocaust, did not deserve,” as also, Federal President Joachim Gauck, who expressed himself, “very moved that the Maccabi Games had chosen Berlin.”