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Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Israel regional vice president of the Coalition for Jewish Values, called her new appointment “dangerous.”
In response, the Israel Embassy in Portugal tweeted: “As a proud Zionist bulldog, I can promise that If Israel develops a cure for COVID-19, Colonel Sousa e Castro will have access to it if needed.”
Representatives from Twitter, Facebook, Google and TikTok joined a Knesset hearing addressing online hate. Gov’t releases first national response to the growing problem.
“From demonizing Jews to glorifying anti-Semitic terrorists, Tehran’s current curriculum is brimming with state-sponsored bigotry,” writes the Anti-Defamation League’s David Weinberg in a new report.
“The use of the pig theme is intended to humiliate,” said CICAD.
“The ICC has again proved that it is a political body, not a judicial institution,” says Israeli premier • The U.S. State Department cites “serious concerns” with the ruling.
In December, Congress passed the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act, which upgrades the status of the special envoy, a position at the U.S. State Department, to an ambassadorship.
He allegedly was part of an incident in 2012 where several staffers at the center’s ThinkProgress website were condemned for using anti-Semitic tropes of Jews dominating politics and money.
Germany’s foreign minister wanted to make sure that the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance remained on equal footing with other organizations.
The Republican Jewish Coalition, which opposed the campaign of the now-Georgia congresswoman, said it was “offended and appalled” by her comments and actions.
“Hate speech cannot be accepted, not against Jews, not against gypsies, gays or the disabled,” says Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, after signing a landmark agreement to compensate his country’s Holocaust survivors.
It was approved unanimously on Tuesday, one day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27.
