Shimon Samuels Shimon Samuels and the Simon Wiesenthal Center have had a significant victory in their effort to block a summit of anti-Semitic leaders that had been planned for Belgium. Their report follows: Wiesenthal Centre commends Belgian Interior Minister, urging her to now block hatefest organizer’s candidacy in 25 May European Parliament elections” 4 May, The Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s call for a ban on today’s extreme right hatefest was followed up by Minister of Interior Joelle Millequet and Mayor Eric Thomas of the Brussels suburb of Anderlecht, as a threat to public order. The ban was supported by the 18 other municipalities of the capital to ensure that the venue could not be changed at the last minute and endorsed by the Conseil d’Etat (Constitutional Court) and some 500 invitees were finally dispersed by police water cannon. The Centre’s Director for International Relations, Dr. Shimon Samuels, stated,”this victory for Belgian democracy is a defeat for French anti-Semites, Dieudonnee and Alain Soral, who had presented their “Anti-Zionist Party” for the last European Parliament (EP) elections in 2009.” He pointed out that,” ‘Debout les Belges!’ (Stand Up Belgians!) – the organizers of today’s provocation – are standing for the current EP elections on 25 May,although Its leader, Laurent Louis had been stripped of his Belgian Parliamentary immunity while making a ‘quenelle inverted Hitler salute in the Chamber. He had likewise,mocked the Holocaust as ‘set up and financed by the pioneers of Zionism’ and posed for photos outside the Parliament standing on an Israeli flag” Samuels, congratulating the Interior Minister for imposing the ban, urged her now “to block ‘Debout les Belges’ candidacy for the May European elections.” “Unmitigated racists elected to a European Union institution headquartered in Brussels would not only shame Belgium and stain the European Parliament. It would provide a multiplier effect for neo-Nazi hate and violence across the Continent”, charged Samuels.