Abraham Cooper is Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish human rights organization with more than 400,000 family members. Rabbi Cooper has been a longtime activist for Jewish and human rights causes on five continents. In 1977, he came to Los Angeles to help Rabbi Marvin Hier found the Simon Wiesenthal Center.  Rabbi Cooper is also a founder of the Global Forum on Anti-Semitism. His op-eds appear in major US and Israeli outlets, in Asia and in the Arab News and Al-Arabiya.