Open Letter: Members of the European Parliament are Concerned with Upcoming Aalst Carnival (EN) (FR) (NL)
We Members of the European Parliament part of the Working Group on Antisemitism are greatly concerned about the potential for racism and antisemitism during the upcoming edition of the Aalst Carnival, on the 21st and 23rd of February in Aalst, Belgium. We call on local authorities and organizers to ensure that the festival be a space free of manifestations of hatred.
EJC President Kantor expresses concern about a Jewish future in Europe after release of FRA report on young Jewish Europeans
Brussels, Thursday, July 4, 2019) – European Jewish Congress President Dr. Moshe Kantor has expressed great concern over the results of a EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) report “Young Jewish Europeans: perceptions and experiences of antisemitism.” Some of the results include four in five of the young Jewish Europeans say that antisemitism is a problem in […]
Spelling of antisemitism
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) would like to address the spelling of the term ‘antisemitism’, often rendered as ‘anti-Semitism’. IHRA’s concern is that the hyphenated spelling allows for the possibility of something called ‘Semitism’, which not only legitimizes a form of pseudo-scientific racial classification that was thoroughly discredited by association with Nazi ideology, but […]
Why antisemitism is still alive?
(Published in Ι Kathimerini Newspaper April 5, 2018) By Photini Tomai* The experience gained from the close monitoring of anti-Semitism and Holocaust issues for over two decades leaves no scope for misjudgments: anti-Semitism is still here; so are its derivatives, regardless of their grade and intensity, whenever and wherever onset. At his opening address […]
Germany, the Holocaust and the Rise of Anti-Semitism
I am German, I am Jewish, my Grandmother is a Schindler survivor. Her fate living through the Holocaust has led me to my academic and professional career and is the driving motivation behind my work combating anti-Semitism and advocating for Holocaust remembrance in Europe as director of EU Affairs for B’nai B’rith International. Jewish life […]
“Culture and Education: Bridges, not Boycotts” Conference
The European Parliament Working Group on Antisemitism (WGAS), held an event at the European Parliament to discuss the importance of building bridges through cooperation and dialogue as opposed to destructive and counterproductive calls for boycotts, namely by the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Movement (BDS). The event, which was titled “Culture and Education: Bridges, not Boycotts”, consisted […]
“Culture & Education: bridges, not boycotts” Conference in the European Parliament
Chair of European Parliament Working Group on Antisemitism condemns wave of violent attacks
The Chair of the European Parliament Working Group on Antisemitism (EP-WGAS), Heinz K Becker MEP (Austria, EPP), condemns the wave of antisemitic attacks that have taken place across Europe following President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, or any other political issue, can never serve as justification […]
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON: The Implementation of the 2017 Resolution on Combatting Antisemitism
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The European Parliament Resolution on combating antisemitism praised by intellectuals
The Resolution on combating antisemitism, adopted by the European Parliament in June, was welcomed by twelve intellectuals who commended in a public letter this undertaking in support of the fight against antisemitism and anti-Zionism. They praised the decision of the European Parliament to include anti-Zionism in the definition of antisemitism as a form of expression […]