Europe
Perhaps underlying a disconnect about what actually constitutes anti-Semitism, only 10 percent of respondents said they have unfavorable attitudes towards Jews.
The City of Amsterdam says it will take necessary steps to fight anti-Semitism after new poll finds 47 percent of Dutch Jews are scared to identify as Jewish in public • Former member of Netherlands’ Central Jewish Board calls survey’s findings a “wake-up call.”
Hungary will invest $1.7 million annually to fight anti-Semitism across Europe • Its Jewish community is to be tasked with leading such efforts.
Measurements for a Dutch man’s replica translated into nearly 410 feet long, 95 feet wide and 75.5 feet tall, and took 12,000 trees to build.
According to CNN poll results, 34 percent of Europeans surveyed know just a little or have never heard of the Holocaust, while 20 percent of French people between the ages of 18 and 34 said they had never heard of the Holocaust.
“Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are getting blurred, but they are two sides of the same coin,” said the Austrian leader, noting his country’s laden past regarding European Jewry. “We can’t undo history, but we can do justice to our history.”
In a sign of the warming ties—and following a change in Poland’s controversial Holocaust law in June—the Tel Aviv municipality marked 100 years of Polish independence this month by lighting up the building in the colors of the Polish flag.
Manfred Weber, 46, head of the European People’s Party in the European Parliament and a member of the conservative Christian Social Union in Bavaria, said “the development in recent years is an absolute warning sign.”
‘’The government is fully mobilized to fight against all forms of anti-Semitic hatred and ensure the safety of Jews in France,” French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner told a meeting with representatives of the Jewish community aimed at discussing ways to fight anti-Semitism.
According to the survey, 76 percent of respondents said they have not made plans in the past five years to emigrate due to anti-Jewish vitriol, while just 19 percent said otherwise.
Vandals damage a Holocaust memorial in the Belgian city of Ghent on the eve of a Kristallnacht commemoration.
Italy mulls opening a permanent mission in Jerusalem in light of the European Union’s ban on member-states relocating their embassies to the city, Italy’s Deputy Foreign Minister Guglielmo Picchi says • We cannot allow “liberal” groups to harm Israeli democracy, he adds.
