European Jewish Congress- Newsletter 26-28 July 2020
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Comunidad Judía
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20 Av 5780 – 10 August, 2020
UK PM CRITICISES RAPPER’S “ABHORRENT” ANTISEMITIC COMMENTS AND CONDEMNS TWITTER’S RESPONSE
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson regards rapper Wiley’s string of antisemitic tweets as “abhorrent” and believes Twitter’s response was “not good enough”, an official spokesman said.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 |
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JOINT DELEGATION TO AUSCHWITZ ON ROMA HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY
The President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and the Chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma will join a delegation of the Evangelical Church in Germany to Auschwitz to honour the memory of the victims of the Shoah and the genocide of the Sinti and Roma.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 |
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GERMANY’S ANTISEMITISM COMMISSIONER CALLS TO INVESTIGATE GERMAN CELEBRITY CHEF
Germany’s commissioner on combatting antisemitism, Dr Felix Klein, called out and urged investigation into a celebrity chef’s antisemitic out-lashes.
Monday, July 27, 2020 |
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AUSTRIA DRAWING UP LEGISLATION TO BAN ANTISEMITISM ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Austria’s government is drawing up legislation to require social media platforms to remove antisemitic material, following the publication of a report which found that TikTok, a platform popular with children, was rife with antisemitism.
Monday, July 27, 2020 |
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BUDAPEST SYNAGOGUES TO CLOSE FOR TWO WEEKS AS PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE
The Federation of Jewish communities in Hungary (MAZSIHISZ) has communicated that synagogues in Budapest will be closed for two weeks as a precautionary measure.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 |
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BODIES OF 286 JEWS MURDERED IN HOLOCAUST FOUND IN UKRAINE BASEMENT
The bodies of 286 Jewish people, mostly women and children, were found in a basement below the town square’s marketplace in Sataniv, Ukraine.
Monday, July 27, 2020 |
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SLOVAK JOURNALIST DEDICATES LIFE TO MEMORIALISING RIGHTEOUS
Over the past seven years, Dagmar Mozolová has documented the stories of 138 Slovaks who helped to save Jews in the Holocaust.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 |
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ANTISEMITISM DATATHON AND HACKATHON EVENT CHALLENGES STUDENTS TO GROW SOCIALLY AND TECHNOLOGICALLY
Thirty high school and college students from five countries around the world took part in the Antisemitism Datathon and Hackathon, a virtual workshop and competition designed to teach students how to recognise antisemitism online and how to use programming to analyse large amounts of data.
Monday, July 27, 2020 |
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US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES APPROVES TO DOUBLE BUDGET OF SPECIAL ENVOY TO COMBAT ANTISEMITISM
A new amendment approved by the US House of Representatives would double the budget for the office of the State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism.
Monday, July 27, 2020 |
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BETA ISRAEL COMMUNITY IN ETHIOPIA RECEIVES HUMANITARIAN AID FROM ISRAEL
Mashav, Israel’s agency for international development cooperation, provided urgent humanitarian aid to the Beta Israel community in Ethiopia.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 |
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