Viktor Orbán
Hungary will invest $1.7 million annually to fight anti-Semitism across Europe • Its Jewish community is to be tasked with leading such efforts.
According to CNN poll results, 34 percent of Europeans surveyed know just a little or have never heard of the Holocaust, while 20 percent of French people between the ages of 18 and 34 said they had never heard of the Holocaust.
With this development, Israel will not send officials to the conference in Marrakesh, which is scheduled to be held between Dec. 10 and Dec. 11.
Many in Israel are against dealing with Europe’s right-wing parties, arguing that they haven’t really abandoned their anti-Semitic past, and that Israel’s acceptance will only legitimize them.
European Jews congratulate PM Viktor Orban on his re-election
Rabbi Menachem Margolin of the European Jewish Association writes to Viktor Orban following his re-election as Prime Minister of Hungary, “You have been a stalwart defender of Israel on the world stage, recently going against the prevailing E.U. winds and supporting the move to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.”
