European Jewish Congress- Newsletter 01-03 July 2020
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STATEMENT
EJC PRESIDENT CALLS ON THE PORTUGUESE PARLIAMENT NOT TO HARM THE SEPHARDI CITIZENSHIP LAW EJC President Dr. Moshe Kantor has written to the President of the Portuguese Parliament calling on him to ensure that a law passed in 2013 which provides Sephardi Jews with the possibility to apply for Portuguese citizenship is not harmed by recent attempts to pass amendments which would damage the applicability, intention and spirit of the original law.
Thursday, July 2, 2020
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FRANCE FRANCIS KALIFAT: “CRIF WELCOMES THE CLOSING OF DIEUDONNÉ’S YOUTUBE CHANNEL” “If we welcome the closing of Dieudonné’s YouTube channel, we also expect the platform, like all the others, to continue this work of cleaning up the Web by removing antisemitic, racist, homophobic content and channels of Holocaust deniers. We remain vigilant and uncompromising,” writes CRIF President Francis Kalifat.
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Read moreFRANCE CONFIRMS RESTITUTION OF PISSARRO LOOTED FROM JEWISH COLLECTOR IN WWII France’s top appeals court has rejected a bid by an American couple to win back a painting by Impressionist master Camille Pissarro looted from a Jewish collector during World War II.
Thursday, July 2, 2020
Read moreAUSTRIA CALL TO VERIFY DATABASE OF AUSTRIAN HOLOCAUST VICTIMS FOR WALL OF NAMES MEMORIAL Ahead of the construction of the Shoah Wall of Names Memorial in Vienna, the Documentation Centre of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW), is calling on the descendants and relatives of Austrian Holocaust victims to consult its database to ensure that no name is forgotten.
Friday, July 3, 2020
Read moreDENMARK ONLY JEWISH BUTCHER IN DENMARK REPEATEDLY SUBJECTED TO VANDALISM The shop of Gil Zchout, owner and operator of the only Jewish butchery in Denmark, has been repeatedly subjected to vandalism.
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Read moreGERMANY SUSPENDED SENTENCE FOR ASSAULT ON KIPPAH-WEARING MAN A 23-year old man who tore a kippah off a 19-year-old’s head in the German city of Freiburg has been given a suspended sentence.
Friday, July 3, 2020
Read moreLITHUANIA TWO JEWISH MONUMENTS DESECRATED IN VILNIUS Two monuments of famous Vilnius Jewish historical figures were desecrated.
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Read moreSWITZERLAND HALF OF SWISS JEWS HAVE EXPERIENCED DISCRIMINATION, ACCORDING TO SURVEY About 50% of Jews in Switzerland have experienced harassment and discrimination in the past five years, according to a survey by the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW).
Thursday, July 2, 2020
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US SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR CASES OF JEWS SUING GERMANY, HUNGARY OVER NAZI ART The US Supreme Court agreed to hear a case involving the descendants of a group of Jewish art dealers from Germany who say their ancestors were forced to sell a collection of religious art to the Nazi government in 1935.
Friday, July 3, 2020
Read moreYOUTUBE REMOVES 25,000 PAGES FOR HATE SPEECH YouTube shut down more than 25,000 channels for violating its hate speech rules among which French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala, white supremacist Richard Spencer and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
Thursday, July 2, 2020
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