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The human bones were found in a basement, thought to have resulted from a Jew hiding from German forces that destroyed the area during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.
“Will we be a party to the anti-Semitic legacy of Durban and continue our descent into extremism, or will we follow the example of other leading democracies in boycotting this conference of hate?” posed Jackie Goodall, executive director of the Ireland Israel Alliance.
Eitan Biran’s maternal grandfather reportedly flew him to Israel instead of returning him to his paternal aunt in northern Italy after a visit.
The 30-year-old suspect was given a one-year suspended prison sentence after damages to property and harming the Jewish owner.
Comments made by Jean-Marie Le Pen were denounced by leaders of the National Front and even by his daughter, party head Marine Le Pen.
The ban, which comes days after the European Union took Israel off its COVID-19 safe travel list, includes fully vaccinated Israelis and those who have tested negative for the virus.
“They did not choose any other place or event,” said the group Action and Communication on the Middle East, “but precisely the location where more than a million people were murdered.”
The positions of political parties on Jewish German life and Israel read well on paper, as they also did in person at a pro-Israel rally in May at the Brandenburg Gate, where all parties (aside from the excluded AfD) sounded unusually strong pro-Israel rhetoric.
Polish diplomat Jakub Kumoch says that contrary to the Israeli foreign minister’s claims, the statute of limitations adopted by his government on property confiscated during World War II was never intended to harm Jews.
For months, the bill was condemned by the international community, which saw it as another attempt to wipe out responsibility to restore the property confiscated from its Jewish community during the years of World War II and the Holocaust.
It comes days after Poland passed a new law that sets a 30-year limit on restitution claims for property stolen by the Nazis during World War II, which has led to a row between Israel and Poland.
Poland’s prime minister warned that Israel’s continued criticism of its anti-restitution law would harm relations between the countries after Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid recalls its charge d’affaires.
