{"id":692,"date":"2016-10-10T14:03:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T14:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epwgas.wpengine.com\/?page_id=692"},"modified":"2016-10-10T14:18:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T14:18:05","slug":"experts-blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ep-wgas.eu\/news\/experts-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) would like to address the spelling of the term \u2018antisemitism\u2019, often rendered as \u2018anti-Semitism\u2019. IHRA\u2019s concern is that the hyphenated spelling allows for the possibility of something called \u2018Semitism\u2019, which not only legitimizes a form of pseudo-scientific racial classification that was thoroughly discredited by association with Nazi ideology, but…<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\tRead More<\/span><\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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(Published in \u0399 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…<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\tRead More<\/span><\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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\u200bI 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\u2019nai B\u2019rith International. Jewish life…<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\tRead More<\/span><\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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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…<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\tRead More<\/span><\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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On 25 April 2017 the Austrian Government adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. A spokesman for the \u00d6sterreichische Volkspartei said that Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz’s approval of the working definition should send a “national and international signal”. The Austrian Government noted that the working definition was the first such working…<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\tRead More<\/span><\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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By\u00a0Dr. Moshe\u00a0KANTOR \/\u00a0 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, especially social media, appears to be full of hatred of and incitement against Jews. What shocked me the most, however, was that once this post was reported…<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\tRead More<\/span><\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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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 Chinese curse \u201cMay you live in interesting times\u201d could not be more apt. Whilst a new Prime Minister starts work in the UK, whilst the…<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\tRead More<\/span><\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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By Moshe KANTOR\/ 14 April 2016 Charles Dickens famously wrote that \u201cit was the best of times, it was the worst of times\u201d. In the past week we have seen the worrying results of research into Muslim opinions conducted by ICM\/Channel 4, together with Sir Trevor Philips. We are witnessing on a daily basis the…<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\tRead More<\/span><\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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by Eric FUSFIELD\/ 15\u00a0October 2015 A recent international conference in Warsaw, Poland provided an opportunity to take inventory of the struggle against anti-Semitism.\u00a0 While the U.S. and European governments have made progress in addressing the problem, evidence of anti-Semitism\u2019s persistence is in ready supply. 2014 saw a breakthrough at the Organization for Security and Cooperation…<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\tRead More<\/span><\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Eric FUSFIELD\/ 15\u00a0October 2015 A recent international conference in Warsaw, Poland provided an opportunity to take inventory of the struggle against anti-Semitism.\u00a0 While the U.S. and European governments have made progress in addressing the problem, evidence of anti-Semitism\u2019s persistence is in ready supply. 2014 saw a breakthrough at the Organization for Security and Cooperation...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":110,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-wgas.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-wgas.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-wgas.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-wgas.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-wgas.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ep-wgas.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-wgas.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-wgas.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}