Europe
A Catholic NGO is to award anti-Israel activist Brigitte Herremans its “ambassador for peace” prize at the site of a transit camp from which Jews were sent to concentration camps during the Holocaust.
Tamar Morali kicked off a campaign to raise awareness about racist and anti-Semitic incidents and rhetoric afflicting Germany and Western Europe on Dec. 10, Human Rights Day.
Piero Terracina was 15 when he and his family went into hiding in 1943 after escaping the roundup of Jews in Rome by German troops.
The list is normally published in late December or early January, but was released early this year, perhaps due to the elections on Dec. 12.
Jan. 27 will mark the 75th anniversary of the camp’s liberation.
Talal Magri, a professor of Islam at the Royal Agri Saint-Georges Athenaeum, posted a clip of an unidentified man saying in Arabic, “Those who cooperate, work, conspire with the Jews, Allah, take them without delay. Shake their bases and topple their buildings, Allah.”
“Racists are racists are racists, and Jeremy Corbyn is a racist,” says Blue and White Party No. 2 Yair Lapid at the Israel Allies Foundation’s annual Chairman’s Conference.
“From 1939 to 1989, a Jew could not feel safe in Poland,” he says. “Since then, thousands of Poles have discovered their Jewish roots … and they, in turn, are free to pursue what it means to be a Jew.”
Carice van Houten and her associate, Halina Reijn pulled out of a panel discussion for the show “The Appointment” after discovering that it would host Aalst Mayor Christoph D’Haese, who has denied that the caricatures at his city’s annual carnival are anti-Semitic.
This is not the first time this year that Jewish graves in Strasbourg were vandalized. The discovery of swastikas on 80 gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in the village of Quatzenheim, also near the border with Germany, was discovered in February.
Jewish groups congratulate Portugal for becoming a full IHRA member, one day after France votes to adopt the organization’s definition of anti-Semitism.
Meeting in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, the Israeli prime minister praised the U.S. maximum pressure campaign on Tehran and said that it could even be stronger.
