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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…

(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…

​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…

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…

On 25 April 2017 the Austrian Government adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. A spokesman for the Österreichische Volkspartei said that Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz’s…

by Benjamin Näegele, ​Director EU Affairs at B’nai B’rith International ​A regional court in Wuppertal, Germany this month delivered suspended sentences of up to two years or less to three…

By Dr. Moshe KANTOR / 20/09/2016 A short while ago I received an email about a Facebook post detailing a poem calling for the stabbing of Jews. Unfortunately, the internet,…

By Dr. Moshe KANTOR, 18/07/2016 Europe is in a flux. We are living through the most politically and economically uncertain period since the end of World War II. The famous…

By Moshe KANTOR/ 14 April 2016 Charles Dickens famously wrote that “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. In the past week we have seen…

by Eric FUSFIELD/ 15 October 2015 A recent international conference in Warsaw, Poland provided an opportunity to take inventory of the struggle against anti-Semitism. While the U.S. and European governments…