JERUSALEM, Israel – In a year scarred by rampant and global anti-Semitism, the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center this week published its list of “Top Ten Global Worst Anti-Semitic Incidents of 2023.” The list is a daunting one, topped by the October 7th massacre and kidnappings by Hamas against Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip.
The publication noted, “They brutally murdered 1,200 Israelis – men, women, and children – including infants. They mass raped women and kidnapped and took over 240 hostages, holding them in underground tunnels, some for over 2 months. The level of brutality included beheadings and mutilations, making October 7, 2023, the worst atrocity perpetrated against the Jewish people since the Nazi Holocaust.”
About the attack, the center’s Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action Rabbi Abraham Cooper, issued a statement reading in part, “While Nazis tried to hide evidence of their crimes, Hamas live-streamed them. What is shocking is the refusal of world humanitarian leaders to call out Hamas’ evil crimes against humanity.”
Second on the list belonged to Iran and Qatar, which the center called “the paymasters of genocidal terrorists.” Iran was spotlighted for financing, aiding and abetting Hezbollah in Lebanon, Shiite terrorists in Iraq and Houthi rebels in Yemen, in addition to
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