antisemitism
A new EU initiative to record anti-Semitic incidents across Europe was launched in Berlin on Tuesday. The European Network for Monitoring Anti-Semitism (ENMA) aims to provide a transnational overview of the extent of hostility towards Jews. "Anti-Semitism must be made visible in order to be able to combat it," said European Commission Anti-Semitism Commissioner Katharina von Schnurbein. Obtaining an adequate picture of anti-Semitism in society is a prerequisite for informing politicians and decision-makers appropriately, she said. Since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 last year, Europe...
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A new EU initiative to record anti-Semitic incidents across Europe was launched in Berlin on Tuesday. The European Network for Monitoring Anti-Semitism (ENMA) aims to provide a transnational overview of the extent of hostility towards Jews. "Anti-Semitism must be made visible in order to be able to combat it," said European Commission Anti-Semitism Commissioner Katharina von Schnurbein. Obtaining an adequate picture of anti-Semitism in society is a prerequisite for informing politicians and decision-makers appropriately, she said. Since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 last year, Europe...
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A new EU initiative to record anti-Semitic incidents across Europe was launched in Berlin on Tuesday. The European Network for Monitoring Anti-Semitism (ENMA) aims to provide a transnational overview of the extent of hostility towards Jews. "Anti-Semitism must be made visible in order to be able to combat it," said European Commission Anti-Semitism Commissioner Katharina von Schnurbein. Obtaining an adequate picture of anti-Semitism in society is a prerequisite for informing politicians and decision-makers appropriately, she said. Since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 last year, Europe...
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An incendiary device was thrown at a door of a synagogue in northwestern Germany on Friday but caused only minor damage, police said. The incident in the city of Oldenburg happened early Friday afternoon. The fire caused by the device was discovered quickly and didn't spread, and the fire service didn't need to extinguish it. No event was taking place in the building at the time, and no-one was injured. Police said they were searching for the perpetrator, but had no information on a motive. Andreas Sagehorn, President of the Oldenburg Police Directorate, condemned the attack "in the strongest ...
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“The echoes of history are unmistakable in our current climate.” Legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg said these words at a ceremony to honour the USC Shoah Foundation - a non-profit organisation he founded 30 years ago, which documents interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust. The 77-year-old director of Schindler's List accepted the USC Medallion on Monday (25 March), the University of Southern California’s highest honour. During his speech, he highlighted the importance of stopping the rise of antisemitism and extremist views amid the war between Israel and Hamas which began...
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Adidas said that it has donated or is planning to give away more than €140 million to groups fighting antisemitism and other forms of hate from the sales of Yeezy shoes last year after it severed ties with Kanye “Ye” West. The German sportswear brand had €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) worth of popular Yeezy sneakers piled up in warehouses after it broke off its partnership with Ye in October 2022 over his antisemitic and other offensive comments on social media and in interviews. Adidas decided to sell some of the remaining shoes in batches, with two releases last year and another that launched l...
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In recent years, the issue of antisemitism has been taken more seriously around the world, especially as hate against Jews keeps rising. The adoption of national plans to combat antisemitism and the appointment of special envoys for monitoring and combating antisemitism have displayed an increased sincerity on the part of leaders in Europe, North America and elsewhere in dealing with one of the oldest and fiercest hatreds in history. However, few have gone past the declaratory into the operational, and taken such a holistic approach, as the Republic of Bulgaria. Taking matters seriouslyIn 2017...
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A German far-right extremist already serving a life sentence following an attempt to attack a synagogue in 2019 was convicted on Tuesday of hostage-taking in the course of a jailbreak attempt. Stephan Balliet, 32, was sentenced to seven years in prison, German news agency dpa reported. He also was ordered to make payments to several people. The defendant acknowledged during the trial that in December 2022, he took prison officers in the eastern town of Burg hostage using a homemade weapon in an attempt to escape. Other guards ultimately overwhelmed him and the hostages were freed unharmed. Bal...
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The Berlin Film Festival prides itself on being a politically active film festival, but they were not going for this... The end of this year’s 74th edition has escalated beyond all expectations. The Berlinale said yesterday (Monday 26 February) that it has filed criminal charges following the hacking of its Panorama sidebar section’s Instagram social media site, which was used to post “anti-Semitic” messages. The Berlinale in a statement said the Instagram channel for its Panorama section was briefly hacked during the weekend, post-awards, and “anti-semitic image-text posts about the Middle Ea...
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Welsh singer Charlotte Church has received criticism for leading a controversial pro-Palestinian chant at a recent charity live event. Last weekend, Church played at Bedwas Workmen’s Hall in Caerphilly, Wales, at a concert to raise money for the Middle East Children’s Alliance, which supports children in Gaza. To end the show, she led a choir of 100 singers in a chant of “From The River To The Sea” - a controversial pro-Palastianian chant. The politcally-charged song is viewed by some pro-Israel supporters as a way to call for the eradication of the Israeli state. It refers to the land between...
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