Antisemitism
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“The Durban Declaration is laced with anti-Semitism, and the goal of those who celebrate it is not racial equality but the undermining and eventual destruction of the state of Israel,” stated former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Jim Fleischer, CEO of AEPi, called the results “staggering and alarming,” saying that more needs to be done to “not only push back against the rise of anti-Semitism on campuses.”
Saul Friedlander, 88, at one point considered becoming a priest, though said that after he was told in 1946 that his parents were killed at Auschwitz, “my Jewish identity was restored.”
Karen Parry, executive director of Hillel of San Diego, said the center will be “a hub for Jewish life and is critical to ensuring that students have a place to gather, connect and learn.”
The monument was commissioned by the Dutch Auschwitz Committee but funded in part by the public, with 84,000 people paying $58 each to dedicate one of the bricks.
“The reaction to the revelation has been enormous and unequivocal,” said Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, director of policy at Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said WDR bears “a great responsibility not to present anyone on the screen who could spread hatred of Israel.”
“Upon final determination, no pension fund assets may be invested in the company, and DOI shall take appropriate action to sell or divest any existing pension fund investments,” said New Jersey’s director of the Division of Investment Shoaib Khan.
In addition to the new memorial, the country has the only Holocaust museum in Central America.
Michael Park, 32, performed a Nazi salute and then physically attacked a woman at a subway station in Toronto after asking her multiple times if she was “a Jew.”
Israeli court orders Hamas to pay $11.8 million to families of three slain teens; families to appeal
“No $10 million ruling will deter an organization with a billion-dollar budget,” says Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, which represented the plaintiffs.
The human bones were found in a basement, thought to have resulted from a Jew hiding from German forces that destroyed the area during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.
