US President Joe Biden, in a meeting on Monday with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, said his commitment to Israel is.
On a geographical comparison, three of the four regional reporting offices that participated in the nationwide documentation registered more antisemitic incidents than in the year before: 30% more in Bavaria, 13% in Berlin, 3% in Brandenburg. Only Schleswig-Holstein saw a slight decrease, of 5%. For the first time, RIAS also published figures for the rest of Germany, where 472 antisemitic incidents were recorded.
A third of all recorded antisemitic incidents nationwide, or 644, took place online. Of these, 550 incidents were reported in Berlin.
“Insults at school or during sport events, hate messages on the Internet, arson attacks on synagogues these are also part of the reality of life for Jewish people 1,700 years after the first mention of Jewish communities in what is now the Federal Republic of Germany,” commented Abraham Lehrer, vice president of the C
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Why is the EU helping to label Israel criticism as antisemitism?
By adopting the IHRA definition, the EU is playing into the agendas of Israel advocacy groups that undermine civil society work against the occupation.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers her first State of the EU address at the European Parliament in Brussels. September 16, 2020. (European Parliament/CC-BY-4.0)
Since the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) adopted its “working definition of antisemitism” in May 2016, various Israeli organizations some of them with reported links to the Israeli government have been promoting the definition with the aim of discrediting and undermining civil society work challenging Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
No Comment and Don’t Quote Me On That Un, From the sublime to the hilarious
The United Nations is an institution mired in politics focusing primarily on military conflicts, civil wars, economic sanctions, peacekeeping, plus sustainable economic development.
But there is also a lighter side to it, which is brilliantly laid out in a new book released last week on Amazon titled
“No Comment and Don’t Quote Me on That.”
It takes years to write a good book, and in this insightful memoir, Thalif Deen, a former UN Bureau Chief and Regional Director at Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency, gives us a riveting memoir filled with observations that come from 40-years of stalking the halls and corridors of the ‘glasshouse by the East River’.