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It condemns the BDS movement as anti-Semitic and calls on the Austrian federal government to withhold federal funds from and avoid cooperation with organizations tied to the BDS movement.
“We cannot be disconnected from the history of anti-Semitism, and we should be very careful of hate speech,” said Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, who recognized that “there is a new form of anti-Semitism, which is anti-Zionism.”
Dutch Jewry’s watchdog on anti-Semitism, called the incident “stupid beyond words” and “unacceptable.”
A quarter of Europeans equate Israelis to Nazis, while one in five believe a “secret Jewish network” controls the world, according to a new survey of 16 European countries.
“We will not hesitate to enforce the quarantine,” says Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman • Australian Health Ministry confirms 22 cases of coronavirus infection • 152 cases and three fatalities have been reported in Italy.
B’nai B’rith International also bashed the Feb. 23 parade: “Mocking religious Jews identifies them as targets for ridicule, abuse and hate.”
The prosecutor’s office said a speech that former priest Jacek Miedlar gave at a nationalist march in Wrocław incited hatred.
She has been witnessed in London attending synagogue with her fiancé, South African Jewish fashion tycoon Michael Lewis.
Reada Cronin, who will not face disciplinary action from her party, said: “I will assist and work with everybody, without qualification. I abhor racism and bigotry of any shade.”
The category of real-life cases, which involved threats, insults and assaults on the street or in the workplace, saw the largest increase—from 27 cases in 2018 to 61 last year.
The Coalition for Jewish Concerns is asking that the Birkenau church, which is topped by a large cross, be moved back into the nearby village from the building it occupies, which served as the SS commandant’s headquarters.
“The world’s oceans and seas are the last great frontier of archaeological exploration, and the Mediterranean Sea holds the oldest and most densely traversed maritime network in the world,” said Professor Thomas Levy in the Department of Anthropology at UC San Diego.
