Sunday, 4 June 2017
World Jewish Congress, Thursday, 01 Jun 2017 (Edited to focus on the resolution of EU)
The
resolution calls on European institutions and EU member states to adopt and
apply the working definition of anti-Semitism of the International Holocaust
Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), in which most of the 28 EU states participate.
Currently, only Austria, Romania and the United Kingdom have formally adopted
the definition.
The European
Parliament also urges member states to protect their Jewish citizens and Jewish
institutions from hate crime and hate speech, to support law enforcement
efforts to identify and prosecute anti-Semitic attacks, to appoint national
coordinators on combating anti-Semitism, systematically and publicly condemn
anti-Semitic statements, to promote education about the Holocaust in schools,
and to review schoolbooks regarding content related to Jewish history and
contemporary Jewish life.
The
lawmakers of the 28 EU member states also call for more effective prosecution
and cross-border cooperation and want all EU countries to appoint national
coordinators to combat anti-Semitism. The resolution states that the Holocaust
should be taught in schools. It also urges politicians to condemn anti-Semitic
statements.
The
definition adopted by the IHRA in May 2016 reads: “Anti-Semitism is a certain
perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical
and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed toward Jewish or
non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community
institutions and religious facilities.”
IHRA also
cited, amongst other things, as examples for anti-Semitism, calling for,
aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical
ideology or an extremist view of religion, making mendacious, dehumanizing,
demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of
Jews as collective, accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or
imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group; denying the
fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide
of the Jewish people at the hands of Nazi Germany and its supporters and
accomplices during World War II, or accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as
a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.
Story from
http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/world-jewish-congress-praises-eu-lawmakers-for-backing-measures-to-combat-anti-semitism-6-4-2017?printable=true
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