Tag: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Israeli president to host major anti-Semitism conference
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin is scheduled to host a major conference on anti-Semitism next week at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem. Panelists will include Katharina von Schnurbein of the European Union; Elan Carr from...
Danon at UN on Holocaust remembrance: ‘Apathy is the enemy of humanity’
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Ambassador Danny Danon warned the world body on Monday morning in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day about the rise of anti-Semitism the need to fight it.
“Calls for...
UN ambassadors visit Poland, Israel as part of Holocaust-remembrance program
Ambassadors to the United Nations visited Poland and Israel as part of a Holocaust-remembrance program, organized by the American Zionist Movement and the International March of the Living.
“It is important for ambassadors from around...
Poll shows many British adults don’t believe the Holocaust occurred
Released in time for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a new poll commissioned by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust found that one in 20 British adults do not believe that the Holocaust occurred, and another...
Czech lawmakers accept definition of anti-Semitism
The Czech Republic parliament’s lower house adopted a widely accepted definition of anti-Semitism on Friday, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday, Jan. 27.
In a nonbinding resolution, lower house speaker Radek Vondracek said the...
How not to remember the Holocaust
While Israel and Jewish communities commemorate the Holocaust with a Yom Hashoah on the 27th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan (which this year falls on May 2), the rest of the world...
World Jewish Congress partners with NATO to raise Holocaust awareness
Tens of thousands of photographs taken by during in the World Jewish Congress’s #WeRemember campaign to evoke awareness about the atrocities of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism will be screened on Thursday and Friday—days before International Holocaust...
Spare us your Holocaust hypocrisy
Last Saturday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The problem is that so many of the mournful and resolute speeches and statements uttered by international leaders on Jan. 27 are so laden with hypocrisy that...
World remembers Holocaust amid signs of rising hatred
WARSAW, POLAND — Elderly survivors were gathering Saturday at the former Auschwitz death camp and political leaders warned that the Nazi genocide must continue to serve as a warning as the world marked International Holocaust...
Rex Tillerson pays respects on Holocaust Remembrance Day at Poland monument Trump failed to...
WARSAW - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson commemorated Jews who rose up against the Nazis during a trip to Poland Saturday — something President Trump failed to do when he visited the country.
“One of...