Today, July 8, marks 40 years since Kurt Waldheim — a man already known to have concealed his inhuman Nazi wartime crimes against civilians — was inaugurated as president of Austria.

Waldheim had served as the United Nations secretary general from 1972 to 1981, and today his portrait hangs alongside those of the other secretaries general at UN headquarters. By allowing this honor the United Nations continues to disgrace itself as an institution with a long, ugly history of antisemitism and anti-Israel bias.

I will never forget that day as Waldheim was paraded through the streets, I stood with a group of activists — among them the great Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld and the revered Catholic leaders Father David Bossman of Seton Hall and Sister Rose Thering, of blessed memory. Wearing replicas of concentration camp prison uniforms, we called: “Shame for electing a Nazi! The voice of moral conscience will follow you wherever you........

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