European Jewish Congress – Newsletter 26 February 2021
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Comunidad Judía
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20 Adar 5781 – 4 March, 2021
| POLAND DROPS HOLOCAUST SPEECH CASE AGAINST JOURNALIST
Prosecutors in Poland say they have found no breach of the law in an article about the role of Poles in the Holocaust and have dropped their case against the journalist who wrote it.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 |
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| JEWISH STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL DEMAND PUNISHMENT FOR ANTISEMITIC PROFESSOR
Jewish students at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom will hold a virtual rally to demand the school take disciplinary action against Professor David Miller after his latest antisemitic remarks.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 |
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| NEW REPORT DETAILS “STRUCTURAL PROBLEM” OF ANTISEMITISM IN MALMÖ’S SCHOOLS
A new report by the City of Malmö details the antisemitism and discrimination faced by the city’s school-age pupils.
Thursday, February 25, 2021 |
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| HUNDREDS OF GERMAN POLICE SWOOP ON MEMBERS OF BANNED ANTISEMITIC ISLAMIC GROUP
Hundreds of German police officers conducted coordinated raids in Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg in the investigation of an organization banned over allegations of Islamic extremism.
Friday, February 26, 2021 |
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| TURKISH JEWISH COMMUNITY COMMEMORATES STRUMA DISASTER
Members of Turkey’s Jewish community and local authorities held an event in Istanbul commemorating the 79th anniversary of the 1942 Struma disaster in which 768 Jews, including 103 children, died.
Thursday, February 25, 2021 |
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| CITY OF ZENICA RETURNS SYNAGOGUE TO BOSNIAN JEWISH COMMUNITY
The City Council of Zenica has voted unanimously to return the city’s synagogue to the Jewish community of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 |
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| DIGGING DOCUMENTED NEAR PRIVATELY OWNED MASS GRAVE OF JEWS IN LITHUANIA
Construction was documented near a mass grave of Jewish Lithuanian Holocaust victims on privately owned land that the government had promised to reclaim.
Friday, February 26, 2021 |
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| MAN THREATENS SOLDIERS PROTECTING BORDEAUX SYNAGOGUE
Soldiers protecting the synagogue on Grand Rabin-Yosef-Cohen street in the city of Bordeaux received death threats.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 |
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| DUTCH RIGHT-WING POLITICIAN CALLS NUREMBERG TRIALS “ILLEGITIMATE”
The leader of a right-wing party in the Netherlands has provoked outrage by saying that the trials against Nazis in Nuremberg, Germany, were “illegitimate.”
Thursday, February 25, 2021 |
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| KENTUCKY TO BECOME FIRST U.S. STATE TO ADOPT IHRA DEFINITION OF ANTISEMITISM
In a historic moment, both bodies of the Kentucky Assembly unanimously passed a state resolution to condemn antisemitism as defined by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), calling on public officials to confront antisemitism and Jew-hatred.
Friday, February 26, 2021 |
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