European Jewish Congress- Newsletter 29 September 2020
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GREECE 
U.S. STATE SECRETARY POMPEO VISITS JEWISH MUSEUM OF THESSALONIKI United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo paid a visit to the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki, as part of his visit to Greece.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Read moreHUNGARY HUNGARIAN FM PÉTER SZIJJÁRTÓ VISITS NEWLY RENOVATED RUMBACH ST. SYNAGOGUE Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto visited the newly renovated Rumbach Street synagogue in Budapest where he met with András Heisler, President of MAZSIHISZ.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Read moreFRANCE SUSPECT IN 1982 PARIS JEWISH RESTAURANT BOMBING TO BE EXTRADITED Norway has decided to extradite a Palestinian terrorist by French prosecutors on suspicion that he took part in a fatal attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris 38 years ago.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Read moreGIBRALTAR POLITICAL PARTIES CONDEMN “RACIST AND ANTISEMITIC” COMMENTS TARGETING JEWISH MP The Government of Gibraltar has condemned what it described as “racist and antisemitic” comments levelled on social media at Marlene Hassan Nahon, a Jewish member of the Gibraltar Parliament.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Read moreGERMANY FAR-RIGHT GERMAN POLITICIAN SACKED FOR REPORTEDLY SUGGESTING MIGRANTS COULD BE KILLED The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has fired a prominent official following reports that he made comments suggesting that migrants could be killed.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Read moreGERMANY DISMISSES HEAD OF MILITARY COUNTERINTELLIGENCE SERVICE OVER FAILURE TO COMBAT EXTREMISM The German Federal government has dismissed the head of its military counterintelligence service (MAD) after a series of scandals involving far-right extremists in the German military.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Read moreTHE NETHERLANDS DUTCH CITY OF HAARLEM WITHDRAWS HONOUR FROM RAPPER WHO DOWNPLAYED THE HOLOCAUST Rapper Darryl Danchelo Osenga will no longer become the official poet of Haarlem, a city in the Netherlands, after his past comments dismissing the severity of the Holocaust caused a firestorm.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Read moreNEWS & VIEWS
DEFYING MACRON, HEZBOLLAH SAYS IT WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT ISRAEL Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group rejected criticism from French President Emmanuel Macron after he panned its political machinations.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Read moreEGYPTIAN SUPREME COURT PREVENTS TRANSPORT OF REMAINS OF THE ABIR YA’AKOV TO ISRAEL The Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court has upheld a 2014 court ruling preventing the transport of the remains of Rabbi Ya’akov Abuhatzeira from the city of Damanhour in the Nile Delta to Israel.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Read moreLIFE IN ISRAEL
HONDURAS TO MOVE EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM BY END OF 2020 Honduras will move its embassy to Jerusalem this year, and Israel will open an embassy in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
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