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Ynetnews: Europe Is Facing a New Jewish Exodus
Speakers at high-level pan-European forum on eve of International Holocaust Day compare today's anti-Semitic atmosphere to situation in continent in 1930s.
A two-day international meeting...
The Economist: Outlawing Intolerance
A Holocaust conference in Prague proposes criminalising speech that defames groups. Few lawmakers are interested
When officials at the European Jewish Congress (EJC) planned the...
Jewishnews.co.uk: Proposal for Pan-European Law to Outlaw Anti-Semitism
British Jewish leaders this week expressed scepticism about proposed pan-European legislation to outlaw anti-Semitism.
The proposed legislation was presented in Prague, where community leaders –...
Yeshiva World News: EJC President Moshe Kantor: Europe on the Cusp of ‘New Dark Ages’
Dr. Moshe Kantor, President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC), said that Europe is on the cusp of “a New Dark Ages’ during the...
RT.com: Mass ‘Exodus’ of Jews from France Probable as Anti-Semitic Attacks Double – Major Jewish Groups
Leading Jewish thinkers in France are warning that a doubling of anti-Semitism in the country and an alarming rise in anti-Jewish violence may lead...
San Diego Jewish World: Speakers of European Parliaments Sign Joint Declaration against Anti-Semitism
The speakers of 29 European parliaments signed a joint declaration expressing their “grave concern” over growing anti-Semitism in Europe.
The gathering of the European leaders...
I24news.tv: Europe’s Jewish Leader Fears ‘Exodus’ Over Rising Extremism
Meanwhile, Europe is facing a new Jewish exodus in the face of rising anti-Semitism and extremism, the head of the European Jewish Congress (EJC)...
Agence France Presse: Survivors Return to Auschwitz, 70 Years On, As Leaders Sound Alarm
Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, ageing survivors and dignitaries gather at the site synonymous with the Holocaust today to honour victims and...
The Times of Israel: Scholars Doubt European ‘Tolerance Law’ Answer To Anti-Semitism
Legislation criminalizing ‘group libel’ wins support from major body, but critics decry shackles on free speech, question effectiveness in combating anti-Jewish hate
The European Jewish...
Prague Daily Monitor: EJC President Kantor: Jews Are Close To New Exodus from Europe
Jews are close to a new exodus from Europe where they face economic pressure and radical Islam in some countries, European Jewish Congress (EJC)...
France 24: Auschwitz Survivors Return 70 Years after Liberation
Some of the last remaining survivors of Auschwitz will return to the site of the Nazi death camp in Poland on Tuesday to mark...
Jerusalem Post: European Jewish Leader: Islamic Extremists Are the New Nazis
Kantor made his comments as part of the “Let My People Live” conference.
European Jewish Congress president Moshe Kantor compared Islamic extremism to Nazism during...
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World Holocaust Forum President Dr. Moshe Kantor tells assembled world leaders that with current levels of emigration there could be no Jewish communities in...
(Jerusalem, Thursday, January 23, 2020) – President of the World Holocaust Forum and the European Jewish Congress Dr. Moshe Kantor told the almost fifty...
Address by President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier to the Fifth World Holocaust Forum. Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
“Blessed be the Lord for enabling me to be here at this day.”
“What a blessing, what a gift, it is for me to be...
Address by the President of the State of Isreal Reuven Rivlin to the Fifth World Holocaust Forum. Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
“On 27 January 1945, the gates of hell were opened. Auschwitz, the greatest machine of human destruction history has ever known, was liberated. The...
Speech by President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum event at Yad Vashem
Mr President,
Mr Prime Minister,
colleagues,
friends,
ladies and gentlemen,
Today we are brought together at the international forum to honour the victims of the Holocaust by a shared...
