European Jewish Congress – Newsletter 12-14 January 2020
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STATEMENT
AHEAD OF THE FIFTH WORLD HOLOCAUST FORUM, THE FIRST EVER GLOBAL SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN TO COMBAT ANTISEMITISM IS LAUNCHED, TITLED: ‘STOP THIS STORY!’ For the first time ever, a social media campaign was launched by EJC President Moshe Kantor with the aim of generating awareness about the problem of antisemitism, ahead of the Fifth World Holocaust Forum.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
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FRANCE FRENCH COURT CONVICTS MAN FOR ASSAULTING JEWISH OPTICIAN A French judge convicted a Muslim man of a hate crime for assaulting a Jewish optician while shouting about Allah.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Read moreGERMANY GERMAN FAR-RIGHT AFD BLAMED FOR INCREASE IN NAZI DEATH CAMP HECKLERS Visitors to the former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen are increasingly interrupting tour guides to voice revisionist theories of history, insisting that the death toll was exaggerated or the Allies were partly to blame.
Monday, January 13, 2020
Read moreSPAIN SPAIN’S NEW DEPUTY PM CALLED ISRAEL AN ‘ILLEGAL COUNTRY’ Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez appointed as his deputy a politician who has called Israel an “illegal country” and hosted a talk show with allegedly antisemitic content that aired on an Iranian-funded TV station.
Monday, January 13, 2020
Read moreUKRAINE UKRAINE TELLS ISRAEL NOT TO CRITICISE VENERATION FOR NAZI COLLABORATORS A Ukrainian diplomat told Israel to stay out of the debate about honouring of Nazi collaborators.
Monday, January 13, 2020
Read moreUNITED KINGDOM UK LABOUR LEADERSHIP CANDIDATES BACK BOD ’10 PLEDGES’ TO COMBAT ANTISEMITISM Labour’s leader and deputy leadership contenders have demonstrated their commitment to tackling antisemitism in the party by backing a series of pledges set out by the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
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JTA: IRAN HAS RETALIATED AGAINST JEWISH TARGETS BEFORE. BUT THE SOLEIMANI KILLING ISN’T CHANGING JEWISH SECURITY AROUND THE WORLD. “For the moment, we don’t think that Iran will, in the short term, take revenge like what they did in AMIA and the embassy,” Ophir Revach, CEO of SACC by EJC told JTA. “We think it’s more between Iran and America and less about the Jewish community in the world.”
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
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IRANIAN STUDENTS REFUSE TO WALK ON US AND ISRAELI FLAGS DURING ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTEST In an apparent act of defiance against the Iranian government, hundreds of student protesters at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran refused to walk over U.S. and Israeli flags.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Read moreEU GIVES ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO PRESERVATION OF JEWISH CEMETERIES The European Union has allocated 1.1 million Euros toward mapping and preserving Jewish burial grounds.
Monday, January 13, 2020
Read moreEGYPT RESTORES HISTORIC SYNAGOGUE Egypt reopened a historic synagogue in the Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria after a years-long government renovation.
Monday, January 13, 2020
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