The Simon Wiesenthal Center asked that an Islamist group not be permitted to attend an upcoming forum on anti-Semitism. Allowing the Union of Islamic Organizations of France to attend the upcoming conference, sponsored by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, “would be a parody,” Shimon Samuels, the center’s director for international liaison, wrote in a letter to the acting president of the OSCE.
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