EJC President Moshe Kantor: We have to be prepared that pandemic-fed conspiracy theories could lead to greater physical attacks on Jews when lockdowns end.”
Worrying trends continued in Germany and the USA. In Germany, a rise was recorded in the total number of incidents, with the opposition to vaccines generating comparisons to the Holocaust, and continued desecration of Jewish memorials and cemeteries.
European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor warned that “we have to be prepared that pandemic-fed conspiracy theories could lead to greater physical attacks on Jews when lockdowns end.”
The significant rise in extremism and the widespread increase in antisemitic conspiracy over the last year could have profound effects on Jewish communities in a post-pandemic world, said Moshe Kantor, President of the European Jewish Congress, at the presentation of the Annual Report on Antisemitism Worldwide 2020, by the Kantor Center at Tel Aviv University.
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A Holocaust survivor receives the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against the COVID-19 disease, at a vaccination center on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
Hundreds of Holocaust survivors in Austria and Slovakia got their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine Wednesday, an acknowledgement of past suffering and a tribute to resilience 76 years after Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
More than 400 Austrian survivors, most in their 80s or 90s, were expected to get shots at the convention center in Vienna. Some were brought by shuttle or by ambulance, while others were accompanied by their children. The fittest among them took the subway.
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Zsolt Semjén (left) and PM Viktor Orbán (Wikipedia/ Author Dodann )
Hungary’s deputy prime minister called Thursday’s ruling by the European Union’s highest court in favour of banning kosher slaughter a “disgrace,” setting up the first public international clash over the landmark decision.
“Yesterday’s ruling by the European Court of Justice upholding a ban on kosher ritual slaughter in Belgium is a disgrace to the religious freedom and security of the European Jewish community and is yet one more sign of the total collapse of our traditional Judeo-Christian value system,” said Zsolt Semjén, the head of the right-wing Christian Democratic People’s Party, a coalition partner of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling Fidesz party.
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