So shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee. (Deuteronomy 13:6)

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has made a direct plea to the United Nations to put pressure on the International Olympic Committee to force its new president, Thomas Bach, to resign his position as the head of a German anti-Israel organization, according to the Jerusalem Post. Bach is a chairman of Ghorfa, the Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a body which supports boycotting Israeli-made products. Prior to his new position as president of the IOC, Bach was an Olympic fencer as well as the head of the German Olympic Committee.

In a letter to the UN special advisor on sport, the head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s international relations department, Shimon Samuels, said that Bach’s support for boycotting Israeli products as well as his backing the IOC’s decision to refrain from officially commemorating the slain Israeli athletes from the 1972 Munich games creates a conflict of interest.

“Under the aforementioned resolutions, the UN should have the authority to demand Bach’s resignation from his GHORFA Boycott of Israel Chairmanship,” Samuels wrote to the special advisor, Wilfried Lemke. “His continued maintenance of both positions will result in boycott polluting sport in violation of the declared principles of both the UN and the IOC.”

“For Holocaust survivors and sports enthusiasts, Bach’s apparent support for those who would harm the Jewish state raises the specters of another Olympics—in Nazi Berlin in 1936.”