Wiesenthal Center Statement On Terrorist Attack on Jerusalem School
Gunmen open fire on Jewish seminary adjacent to school attended by grandchildren of Wiesenthal Center head
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish human rights NGO, strongly condemned the terrorist attack at Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem. One of the gunmen was also armed with a suicide bomb belt.
"[Today's] terrorist attack, in the very neighborhood where my grandchildren go to school, is a wake-up call to those who think that you could reason with fanatical murderers who deliberately attack unarmed students and children," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Wiesenthal Center.
"Israel should launch a retaliation against the entire terrorist leadership wherever they are," Hier concluded.
Rabbi Hier met last week with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on this very subject of suicide terror and urged the community to take immediate action to put an end to what they call "the scourge of the 21st Century."
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest international Jewish human rights organization with over 400,000 member families in the United States. It is an NGO at international agencies including the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, and the Council of Europe.
For more information contact the Center's Public Relations Department at, 310.553.9036.
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