Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight against Antisemitism presents Germany’s first National Strategy Against Antisemitism.
Here are eight lessons Americans can learn from Europe’s experience with intensifying antisemitism, according to Simone Rodan-Benzaquen, Managing Director of Paris-based AJC Europe.
The Bremerton City Council did the right thing on January 17, when it unanimously voted to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Antisemitism in response to an incident of vile hate speech targeting our local Jewish community.
A few days after Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, I joined a group of American Jews and Germans on a visit to the former concentration camp Sachsenhausen. Aside from being a decade or two between the average visiting school group or Red Hat Society outing, we were the only group of Germans and Jews touring the memorial site together.
It’s been a rough year so far for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Nearly two decades after its founding, the campaign has suffered a string of stinging defeats in its attempt to rally world support to single out the world’s only Jewish state.