European Jewish Congress- Newsletter 09-11 February 2020
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NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES
GERMANY 
MERKEL FIRES MINISTER OVER FAR-RIGHT ROW German Chancellor Angela Merkel has dismissed a minister for praising the election of a liberal candidate who was supported by the far right.
Monday, February 10, 2020
Read moreGERMAN COMEDIAN UNDER ATTACK AFTER APOLOGISING TO HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR Neo-Nazis have attacking a popular German comedian for apologising to a Holocaust survivor for his father’s wartime crimes.
Monday, February 10, 2020
Read moreBELARUS BELARUS JEWS HOLD MEMORIAL FOR FAMOUS DESCENDANT KIRK DOUGLAS The Jewish community of Belarus held a memorial service to honour film actor Kirk Douglas, one of the Belarusian Jewish community’s most famous descendants.
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Read moreHUNGARY HUNGARIAN NEO-NAZIS MARCH IN BUDAPEST Some 500 neo-Nazis marched through a park in Budapest to commemorate the so-called “Day of Honour”, an anniversary marked each year by Neo-Nazis and far right extremists.
Monday, February 10, 2020
Read moreITALY ITALIAN JEWS AND CHRISTIANS JOINTLY HOST SYRIAN REFUGEE FAMILY IN MILAN Christians and Jews in Milan are jointly hosting a Muslim family that fled from the fighting in Syria.
Monday, February 10, 2020
Read moreSPAIN MADRID TO OPEN FIRST JEWISH MUSEUM AFTER LEGAL BATTLE OVER BUILDING Madrid will open a Jewish museum in a building, after the municipality won a legal battle to evict the squatters that had been illegally occupying it since 2017.
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Read moreTHE NETHERLANDS DUTCH CITY KEEPS SIGNS IDENTIFYING ISRAELI CITIES AS LOCATED IN PALESTINE The Dutch city of Eindhoven, which in 2014 agreed to change street signs identifying Israeli cities as Palestinian postponed the correction indefinitely.
Monday, February 10, 2020
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EU AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL PLANTS TREE FOR TU BISHVAT SIDE BY SIDE WITH DISABLED CHILDREN EU ambassador to Israel Emanuele Giaufret took part in at Tu Bishvat ceremony at Beit Issie Shapiro centre, a non-profit organisation which promotes equality and a community for people with disabilities.
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Read moreAL JAZEERA HOST CALLS ISRAEL “MOST SUCCESSFUL PROJECT IN 120 YEARS” “For most Arabs, if they want to curse you, they will describe you as a ‘Zionist,’ even though they know that the most successful project in the current and last century is the Zionist project,” tweeted Faisal al-Qassem, the host of Al Jazeera’s The Opposite Direction.
Monday, February 10, 2020
Read moreTOP IRANIAN OFFICIAL SAYS IRAN WAS LOOKING FOR EXCUSE TO “FLATTEN TEL AVIV” A hardliner Iranian politician and senior commander of the country’s Revolutionary Guard has said that after the killing of Qassem Soleimani, Iran “was after an excuse to attack Israel”.
Monday, February 10, 2020
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