Europe
It happened in the Jewish cemetery near the old synagogue burned down by the Nazis in September 1940.
In an exclusive interview, Yair Shamir clarifies why acting Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz was out of context when he quoted his father, former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, and reveals some new information about his father, including his thoughts on the Camp David Accords, the Madrid Peace Conference and his great appreciation for cantorial music.
It holds 14 seats out of 150 in the Dutch parliament’s lower chamber.
“Across Europe today, we are witnessing an inconceivable and worrying rise in anti-Semitism, racism, discrimination and xenophobia, clothed in extremist behavior and hooliganism, and we must be vigilant in addressing this,” said World Jewish Congress CEO Robert Singer.
Alarming figures released this month by the French government report that anti-Semitism rose by 74 percent in 2018.
“I will work to eradicate the attempted distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. There is no distinction,” said United States’ new envoy to combat anti-Semitism.
Jews who tried to hide in urban areas during the Nazi occupation of Poland were much less likely to survive • “Poles who chose to save Jews were essentially violating the unwritten norms of their community.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz told Israel’s i24 news channel, “I am the son of Holocaust survivors, we will never forgive and never forget, and there were many Poles who collaborated with the Nazis.”
On Tuesday night, more than 20,000 demonstrators gathered in Paris and other cities in response to a nationwide call for mass rallies against rising anti-Semitism in France.
They seek to follow the example of their Dutch counterparts, and set the stage for a 7 percent reduction in donor funds to the P.A. unless and until it stops its “pay-for-slay policy” of doling out salaries to terrorist prisoners, released prisoners and families of dead terrorists.
Following the vandalism of 80 gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in the Alsace region of France, thousands of people joined rallies in Paris and across the country to publicly oppose anti-Semitism.
Great Britain, scheduled to leave the European Union in a move known as Brexit on March 29, has been signing new trade deals.
