Category Archives: European Jewish Press
Thousands of children from across Portugal visit Holocaust Museum on Yom HaShoah
“In this museum, we like to challenge our visitors, and see teenagers posing questions, especially asking how it was possible for the Holocaust to take place,” said Gabriel Senderowicz, President of the Jewish Community of Oporto that built and manages the museum. Read more » »
International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorated in Oporto, Portugal with 1000 school children
In partnership with the European Jewish Association, the Holocaust Museum of Oporto commemorated the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. A flame was lit in the Museum’s Memorial Room with the names of tens of thousands of people murdered during the Holocaust. The lighting of the flame was carried out by students from the schools present. Read more » »
Jewish groups slam Barcelona for mulling end to twinning agreement with Tel Aviv
‘’If Barcelona were to break its twinning with Tel Aviv, this would mark it as a city prone to hateful political manipulation,’’ said Shimon Smauels from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, noting that the Barcelona City Council will meet on 27 January – Read more » »
Ilhan Omar to be booted from U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, Kevin McCarthy says
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy repeats promise to remove congresswoman with history of antisemitic comments from influential committee. By JNS House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday repeated his promise to block vocal critic of Israel Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Read more » »
American pro-Israel groups want Ilhan Omar bounced from House Foreign Affairs Committee
AIPAC, B’nai B’rith, RJC and ZOA are supportive of Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s pledge to dismiss the congresswoman with a history of antisemitic and anti-Israel statements. By Bradley Martin, JNS Several Jewish and pro-Israel groups welcomed received news of the likely removal of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn. Read more » »
Universities in Netherlands say they will not comply with a request for information on Israel and Jewish ties – EJP
Tuesday, 22 Feb 2022 – 21 of Adar I, 5782 The university of Groningen. All fourteen universities in the Netherlands said they will not comply with a request from a pro-Palestinian organization regarding their ties with Israeli and Jewish entities. Read more » »
Israel defenders slam Amnesty International over ‘diplomatic lynch against the Jewish state’, Amnesty report is ‘antisemitic’
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid says new report calling Israel an “apartheid state” shows that Amnesty is “another radical organization that echoes propaganda with no serious examination. Instead of seeking facts, Amnesty quotes lies spread by terrorist organizations. Read more » »
France’s EU presidency amid a presidential election: the right time for President Macron ? – EJP
Since January 1, France took over the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union, as presidential elections are to be held in the country in April. This gives French President Emmanuel Macron the opportunity of being considered as the leader of the 27-nation EU. Read more » »
French polemicist : Toulouse Jewish terror victims who were buried in Israel ‘do not belong to France’ – EJP
French controversial columnist and polemicist Eric Zemmour drew a parallel between Mohamed Merah, the Islamist terrorist who killed three Jewish children and a teacher in the Ozar Hatorah school in 2012, and his victims, who were all buried abroad, in Algeria and Israel. Read more » »
International Jewish organizations publish recommendations to combat antisemitism and fostering Jewish life in Europe – EJP
Several international Jewish organizations have published a set of recommendations to combat antisemitism and foster Jewish life in Europe. The document was presented this week to the European Commission ahead of the Commission’s publication of a first ever strategy to combat anti-Jewish bigotry announced last December. Read more » »
