European Jewish Congress- Newsletter 31 May-02 June 2020
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Comunidad Judía
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10 Sivan 5780 – 2 June, 2020
| AUSTRIAN MPS WANT HEZBOLLAH BANNED WITHIN THE EU
Legislators from Austria’s governing coalition parties introduced a resolution urging the European Union to reassess Hezbollah’s entire organization as a terrorist movement.
Sunday, May 31, 2020 |
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| CZECH COMPANY SELLS NAZI ‘PERSONALITIES OF THE THIRD REICH’ 2021 CALENDAR
Czech publisher Naše Vojsko (Our Army) has come under criticism for selling a calendar on its website consisting of Nazi leaders.
Sunday, May 31, 2020 |
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| ALBERT MEMMI, INFLUENTIAL FRENCH-JEWISH AUTHOR, DIES AT 99
Albert Memmi, a prominent French-Jewish author who was born in Tunisia, has died in Paris. He was 99.
Sunday, May 31, 2020 |
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| MUNICH BANS DISPLAY OF YELLOW STARS AT CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN PROTESTS
After German Jewish groups raise concerns, the city of Munich introduces fine for those who use symbol meant to resemble the ones that Nazis forced Jews to wear during the Holocaust.
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 |
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| MUNICH JEWISH COMMUNITY PRESIDENT URGES MPS TO RESIGN FROM BDS
The prominent president of Munich’s Jewish community Charlotte Knobloch said that three members of the Bundestag should resign from the allegedly antisemitic German-Palestinian Society (DPG) because the organization supports BDS campaign against Israel.
Sunday, May 31, 2020 |
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| POLISH HISTORIAN EWA KUREK: CORONAVIRUS IS ‘JEWFICATION’ OF EUROPE
Polish historian Ewa Kurek gave an interview to a right-wing Polish media outlet, in which she described the coronavirus outbreak in Europe as a “Jewification.”
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 |
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| CORBYN QUESTIONS IMPARTIALITY OF BODY CONDUCTING ANTISEMITISM INQUIRY
Jeremy Corbyn has questioned the impartiality of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which is conducting an inquiry into the Labour party’s handling of antisemitism claims.
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 |
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| NEVER AGAIN EDUCATION ACT SIGNED INTO LAW
The Never Again Education Act was signed into law on Friday, May 29. The legislation supports Holocaust education across the country by bolstering the already expansive educational resources at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Monday, June 1, 2020 |
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| 79TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FARHUD MASSACRE OF IRAQI JEWS REMEMBERED
Jewish leaders and organisations marked the anniversary of the 1941 Baghdad pogrom known as the “Farhud,” which began the ethnic cleansing of the millennia-old Iraqi Jewish community.
Monday, June 1, 2020 |
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| POLICE INVESTIGATE ANTISEMITIC VANDALISM AT MONTREAL SYNAGOGUE
Police in Canada’s second largest city, Montreal, Quebec, are investigating an incident of antisemitic vandalism that took place at a small, local home-based synagogue in Côte St-Luc, an on-island Montreal suburb with a large Jewish population.
Monday, June 1, 2020 |
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