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“Sports are a crucial arena for tackling hate, and more national football leagues should follow suit,” stated the European Jewish Congress.
U.N. recognition “will be an important achievement for the State of Israel and the Jewish people,” said Ambassador Gilad Erdan.
“Anti-Semitism has no place in Australia. It has no place anywhere in the world,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: “It’s everyone’s challenge to take on, especially governments.”
“When criticism of a particular Israeli policy mutates into questioning Israel’s very right to exist ... this is anti-Semitism,” President Isaac Herzog tells the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Anti-Semitism.
The local parliament also demanded that Spain’s national parliament adopt legislation to deny public aid to entities that promote anti-Semitism.
The Durban IV Conference is slated to take place at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Sept. 22.
Village of Great Neck adopts IHRA working definition of anti-Semitism
The Long Island community joined area municipalities that have also decided to actively confront the issue.
South Korea is the first country in Asia to endorse the official definition, reported Akiva Tor, Israel’s Ambassador to the Republic of Korea.
The first Central America Forum for Israel also marked the third anniversary of Guatemala’s Israel Friendship Law, which institutes that schoolchildren learn about Israel and its historical relations with their country.
Canadian Parliament member Anthony Housefather: “I have never in my lifetime seen the levels of anti-Semitism as I have in recent weeks.”
The resolution also included the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism.
