Antisemitism
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“The more you have alarming trends, the more you have people to face them,” said Professor Uriya Shavit. “While anti-Semitism is really bad and getting worse, I think it is really crucial to keep the picture balanced.”
The metal pendants, each different from the others, are from Lviv in Ukraine, Poland and the Czech Republic, according to researchers.
The move follows Ben & Jerry’s decision to break its contract with its Israeli licensee, who refused to stop selling the company’s ice-cream in Judea and Samaria.
The average age of Israel’s 165,800 remaining survivors is now 85, according to the Holocaust Survivors’ Rights Authority • “Our watch is the last watch,” says Israeli Social Equality Minister Meirav Cohen.
As the number of survivors dwindles, many members of the community have been forced to live out their lives in poverty, often alone.
The ProZ course “is designed to empower young people who want to defend Israel where it counts today, on social media,” says Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Civil servant Michael Blume defends allegations of impropriety by going on the offensive against his Jewish accusers. The established German Jewish community supports him, demonstrating a partisan rift. Now, allegations of corruption have surfaced.
Led by Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.), 42 bipartisan members sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, calling the COI “outrageous and unjust.”
The FBI’s initial position on the Colleyville hostage crisis “brings up the need for education and information—that every single one of us draws these red lines and has these conversations” surrounding anti-Semitism, says StandWithUs CEO Roz Rothstein.
In a series of two-minute videos, the campaign spotlights those recognized as Righteous Among the Nations and the dangers they faced to save Jews in German-occupied Europe.
The “Forever in Their Name” campaign is slated to launch on Jan. 26, the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center points to social media as a distributor of anti-Jewish propaganda, saying “racists have succeeded in attaching their goals and infiltrating their anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi, Holocaust-denigrating imagery onto a legitimate, ongoing debate, which is very emotional. It’s a massive victory for them.”
