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Since Oct. 7, 2023, the Toronto Police Service has made “over 517 arrests and laid over 1,275 charges in connection with demonstrations, protests and hate‑motivated offenses,” its police chief said.
“I demand the world remember what happened only 80 years ago,” she said.
“Prague is really still one of the European cities where Jews, even with a kippah, can feel safe and go around in the streets,” Tomáš Pojar said.
“The history of the Holocaust is one of total moral collapse, dehumanization, complicity and unimaginable atrocities,” said the official who represented the United Nations at the event.
Holocaust survivors and scholars said the international community’s abandonment of the Jewish state belies its promises to learn from the genocide.
This year’s commemoration marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
The UAE, Indonesia and Albania are all home to initiatives documenting the Nazi genocide.
“We will never forget the 6 million Jews murdered in cold blood,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
“Israel, despite being a small country, stands at the global forefront of the space field,” President Isaac Herzog said.
“Since the Oct. 7 massacre, antisemitism has raised its ugly face, but we will fight it,” said Israeli Ambassador to Portugal Oren Rozenblat.
Anti-Israel co-organizers and their rhetoric at last year’s event make attendance at the ceremony “unacceptable,” community leaders said.
One of the suspects served in an Iron Dome unit and allegedly provided his handlers with classified information about its workings.
In December, Israel closed its embassy in Dublin due to “antisemitic actions and rhetoric” consistently undertaken by the Irish government.
