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Jewish groups to sue Belgian columnist for ‘stab a Jew’ article

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The Brussels-based European Jewish Association plans to file a lawsuit on Friday against a Belgium magazine columnist who wrote that he wants to “stab every Jew in the throat with a pointed knife” over...

At ‘emergency summit,’ EJA head calls on Israel to prepare for influx of European...

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As hundreds of Jews descended on Amsterdam for an “emergency summit,” the head of the European Jewish Association on Monday called on Israel to prepare for a mass influx of immigrants as antisemitism skyrockets...
Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich arrives at the Western Wall for his son Aaron's Bar Mitzvah, Dec. 20, 2022. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.

Internal EU paper contains antisemitic tropes, Jewish group claims

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A recent internal European Union paper denigrates Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, referring to his Jewish background and employing derogatory antisemitic themes, according to the European Jewish Association. The European External Action Service (EEAS), the E.U.'s...
Rabbi Shlomó Köves, chairman of Europe’s Action and Protection League and leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch Association of Hungarian Jewish Communities, presents findings of a European anti-Semitism study at the European Jewish Association Conference of Jewish Leaders in Brussels, held from Oct. 12-13, 2021. Photo by Eli Mandelbaum.

New European-wide survey reveals disturbing findings of anti-Semitism, anti-Israel bias

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Europe’s Action and Protection League (APL), in partnership with the European Jewish Association (EJA), released a European-wide survey offering a complex and detailed account of the prevalence of anti-Semitic perceptions, including widespread views in some countries...
Soldiers of the Belgian army guarding the Brussels synagogue. Credit: Roman Yanushevsky/Shutterstock.

Belgian government decides to remove army protection from Jewish sites

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The head of the European Jewish Association (EJA) said on Wednesday that the Belgian government’s decision to remove army protection at Jewish institutions makes “zero sense” and leaves Jews “wide open with a target on...
The Sejm, or lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland in 2014. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Polish Senate votes to delay bill that would ban exports of kosher meat

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The Polish Senate voted on Wednesday to postpone provisions to a controversial animal-rights bill banning the export of kosher meat until 2025. Last month, the Sejm, the Polish parliament’s lower house, passed the bill. But...
Shechita (kosher slaughter) of a chicken. Credit: Yofial via Wikimedia Commons.

European Jewish group sounds alarm over Polish bill banning kosher-meat exports

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Europe’s largest Jewish umbrella organization expressed alarm on Thursday over an animal-welfare bill in Poland that would ban exports of kosher meat. “This draft law is of deep, deep, concern to European Jewry. It puts...
UNESCO assistant director-general Stefania Giannini speaks at the European Jewish Association’s (EJA) annual policy conference in Paris; seated is EJA chairman Rabbi Menachem Margolin, Feb. 24, 2020. Photo by Yoni Rykner.

In Paris, 250 European leaders, conference attendees to confront anti-Semitism in full force

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Some 250 participants and European leaders gathered in Paris at the European Jewish Association’s (EJA) annual policy conference this week under the topic “Jews in Europe: United for a Better Future.” The $11 million “European...
A view of a parade float at the Carnival of Aalst in March 2019, featuring two Orthodox Jewish caricatures that were widely condemned as anti-Semitic. Source: Screenshot.

EU Jewish leader calls on UNESCO to act against anti-Semitic caricatures at festival

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A European Jewish leader is calling on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, to act against organizers of the Carnival of Aalst in Belgium for its plan to use anti-Semitic caricatures...