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MEETING WGAS WEBINAR : DEALING WITH ANTISEMITIC CONTENT IN PALESTINIAN SCHOOLBOOKS The European Parliament Working Group Against Antisemitism (WGAS) held a meeting with Henrike Trautmann, Head of Unit and Acting Director for the Southern...

STATEMENT DR. MOSHE KANTOR CONGRATULATES DANI DAYAN ON HIS APPOINTMENT AS CHAIRMAN OF YAD VASHEM EJC President Dr. Moshe Kantor congratulated Dani Dayan on his appointment as Chairman of Yad Vashem. Tuesday, August 24,...

EJC IN THE MEDIA THE JERUSALEM POST : “POLISH LAW PREVENTING RESTITUTION OF JEWISH PROPERTY PASSES IN SENATE” “This is not just another law, it is legalized theft, and the language is written in...

VIDEO THE VEL D’HIV ROUNDUP The EJC released a video on social media commemorating the 79th anniversary of the 1942 Roundup of Vel d’Hiv, the largest deportation of Jews from France during the Holocaust....

The new Polish restitution law is discriminatory and immoral, says EJC President Kantor (Friday July 23, 2021) –  European Jewish Congress President Dr. Moshe Kantor has slammed the passing of a bill by the...

Special Lecture: From 2-Inch to YouTube: The Audiovisual Documentation and Broadcast of the Eichmann Trial The trial of Adolf Eichmann riveted the attention of the Israeli public and aroused great interest the world over....

Newsletter 8 July 2021 NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES THE NETHERLANDS THE NETHERLANDS WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN DURBAN IV CONFERENCE The Netherlands will join the US, UK, Canada, Hungary and Australia in boycotting the UN event...

Main Story The Board of Deputies has welcomed a High Court decision which ruled that a pharmacist who blamed ‘Tory Zionists’ for the Grenfell Tower tragedy may have been voicing antisemitsm. Read more Other...

STATEMENT EJC CALLS ON POLAND TO PULL BACK FROM UNFAIR, UNJUST AND DISCRIMINATORY RESTITUTION LAW The European Jewish Congress calls on Polish authorities to reject a proposed bill which would make it considerably more...

VIDEO 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEGINNING OF THE HOLOCAUST IN LITHUANIA This week marks the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Holocaust in Lithuania. Over 90% of Lithuanian Jews were murdered in the...