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“Every day, our values are put to the test; anti-Semitic and denial acts are still committed in Belgium. I cannot accept it. Our country can not accept it,” he said.
“We demand that the fight against this democratic failure that is anti-Semitism becomes a national cause before it’s too late. Before France is no longer France,” reads the manifesto co-signed by several politicians from the left and right.
Resolution censuring Hamas’s acts of terrorism and use of human shields passes with an overwhelming majority of 524-30, with 92 abstentions • Motion slams Hamas abuse of Gaza population, calls on Israel and the Palestinians “to respect human rights.”
“We bow our heads to their heroism, their bravery, their determination and courage,” Polish President Andrzej Duda said at the ceremony at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw.
Tom Furstenberg, one of the leaders of the Beth Shoshanna community in the city of Deventer, said it would be “scandalous” if the idea was given a green light, as this would crush the hopes of restoring the site.
Dublin Mayor Mícheál Éamonn MacDonncha said he would travel to Ramallah in solidarity with Palestinians “who suffer violence by the Israeli forces, as we saw recently in Gaza with shooting at protesters.”
A Pew Research Center survey of 18 countries finds that Jews are not wanted as neighbors or family members. Other minorities fared worse.
The umbrella representative body of French Jewish organizations has called for a March 28 rally in Paris in memory of Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old Jewish woman brutally killed in her apartment.
Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll, 85, who was murdered Friday in her apartment in Paris, was the 11th person murdered in brutal acts of anti-Semitism in the past 12 years.
French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledges uptick in acts against French Jews and their institutions, insisting he does not want them to leave the country due to fear.
A Polish agency filed a lawsuit against an Argentinian newspaper that used Polish soldiers to illustrate an article on the 1941 Jedwabne pogrom.
Some 150 experts and professionals gathered in Vienna to address the severity of anti-Semitism and work towards finding some practical solutions to combat it.
