European Jewish Congress- Newsletter 14-16 June 2020
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Comunidad Judía
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25 Sivan 5780 – 17 June, 2020
| ANTISEMITIC CHANTS AT ANTI-RACIST MARCH IN PARIS SHOWS HOW WORTHY CAUSE IS BEING HIJACKED TO SPREAD HATE
EJC President Dr. Moshe Kantor called on anti-racist marchers and organisers to ensure that antisemitism is not being adopted by some within their ranks, after large groups of marchers at a rally in Paris’s Place de la République shouted antisemitic slogans like “dirty Jew”.
Sunday, June 14, 2020 |
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| NEW CST REPORT: FAR-RIGHT ANTISEMITISM “URGENT AND ONGOING TERROR THREAT” TO JEWISH COMMUNITIES
A new report from the UK’s Community Security Trust reveals the shocking extent of terror incitement and anti-Jewish hate created and circulated by right wing extremists on social media.
Monday, June 15, 2020 |
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| LONDON POLICE CHARGE MAN WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER IN STABBING OF ORTHODOX RABBI
UK police charged a man with attempted murder following the stabbing of an Orthodox Jewish man in north London.
Monday, June 15, 2020 |
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| JEWISH CEMETERY IN POLAND VANDALIZED WITH SPRAY-PAINT
A wall of the Jewish cemetery in Tarnow, a city in southern Poland, was spray-painted with the letters “AJ”, likely meaning “Anti-Jude,” or “anti-Jewish”.
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 |
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| EXPLOSIVE NEW RESEARCH REVEALS ACTIVE ROLE OF THE POLISH POLICE IN THE KILLING OF JEWS DURING THE HOLOCAUST
A new book by Polish historian Jan Grabowski has brought evidence of the active role of the Polish police during the Holocaust to light, causing a stir in the country.
Monday, June 15, 2020 |
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| ANTISEMITIC CHURCH SCULPTURE GETS REPRIEVE
An antisemitic sculpture in a medieval Protestant church in the town of Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt, will not be removed after ongoing restoration efforts are completed, in spite of the church’s pleas to do so.
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 |
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| GERMAN POLICE PLACE REGIONAL CHAPTER OF FAR-RIGHT AFD UNDER SURVEILLANCE
An entire regional chapter of Germany’s far-right AfD party has been placed under police surveillance because of its extremist tendencies, increasing pressure on the anti-migrant group.
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 |
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| BELGIAN HOLOCAUST SERIES CLAIMS JEWS MASSACRED AND DISPLACED PALESTINIANS
A Belgian state broadcaster claimed in a Holocaust documentary that Jews repeatedly “massacred” and “systematically” displaced Palestinians.
Monday, June 15, 2020 |
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| IAEA HEAD CALLS FOR MORE ACCESS IN IRAN
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that Iran must provide inspectors access to sites where the country is thought to have stored or used undeclared nuclear material.
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 |
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| SYRIAN INFANT FLOWN TO ISRAEL FROM CYPRUS FOR EMERGENCY HEART SURGERY
An infant born to a Syrian couple living in Cyprus was flown to Israel to undergo an emergency procedure to correct a severe congenital heart defect.
Monday, June 15, 2020 |
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