The European Parliament Working Group against Antisemitism (WGAS) held a presentation at the European Parliament entitled ‘Educating against antisemitism, intolerance and discrimination’  in the European Parliament in Brussels on 23 May 2023. The event was hosted by WGAS Board Member Ilana Cicurel in cooperation with the European Jewish Congress (EJC) and B’nai B’rith International and...

The European Parliament Working Group against Antisemitism (WGAS) held a conference "80 Years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Perspectives on Resistance Then and Now" in the European Parliament in Brussels on 25 April 2023. The event was hosted by WGAS Chair and Vice-President of the European Parliament Nicola Beer in cooperation with B’nai B’rith International and...

The European Parliament Working group against antisemitism held its Board meeting on 30 January 2023. WGAS Board members discussed the group’s plan of action for the first half of 2023. WGAS MEPs also heard reports from Katerina Vyzvaldova of the European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) on the findings of FRA’s 18th annual overview of...

 

The European Parliament Working Group Against Antisemitism (WGAS) and the European Jewish Congress (EJC) held a special screening of “Simone Veil, a Woman of the Century” with the participation of renowned French philosopher, filmmaker and playwright Bernard-Henri Lévy on the 24th of January 2023 to mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Dr Ariel Muzicant and...

The European Parliament Working Group against Antisemitism (WGAS) hosted a conference entitled ‘Jewish life in Europe: celebrating diversity and fostering solidarity in times of crisis’ in the European Parliament in Brussels on 15 November 2022. The conference brought together policymakers, Jewish community representatives and actors from the civil society who are driving efforts to promote...

WGAS Chair Nicola Beer addressed on Monday 27 June the International Symposium hosted by EJC and UNESCO to explore how education can help people debunk conspiracy theories to prevent their spread:  Dear honourable guests, distinguished panelists, Dear Friends, I would like to thank the European Jewish Congres and UNESCO for organising this important symposium and...

(Brussels, 15 June 2022) The European Parliament Working Group against Antisemitism (WGAS) and the Inter-Parliamentary Task Force to Combat Online Antisemitism held a joint briefing with Clara Dutoit-Sommier from YouTube Government Affairs and Public Policy team and Eliyahou Roth, CEO at Online Antisemitism Task Force, to discuss the current state of play of antisemitism in...

(Brussels, 9 December 2021) The European Parliament Working Group Against Antisemitism held an exchange of views with the Inter-Parliamentary Task Force to Combat Online Antisemitism, a cross-party group of lawmakers from Israel, the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK. On behalf of WGAS, Chair MEP Nicola Beer (Renew Europe), Vice-Chairs MEP Sergey Lagodinsky (Greens) and...

The European Parliament Working Group Against Antisemitism (WGAS) held a meeting with Henrike Trautmann, Head of Unit and Acting Director for the Southern Neighbourhood at Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR) on dealing with antisemitic content in Palestinian textbooks. The meeting brought together experts discuss the findings of a report on Palestinian textbooks…