Board of Deputies of British Jews launches its Ten Pledges for Labour leadership
and deputy leadership candidates

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January 17, 2020
[[link removed]] [[link removed]] [[link removed]] [[link removed]] [[link removed]]World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder: Holocaust survivors will soon
be gone. Now it’s up to us to speak out against hate.

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder writes: "As a Jew, I am
frightened by how the world looks in 2020. The rate of increase of anti-Semitic
crimes in the United States and abroad should frighten every citizen,
everywhere, whether they live in a community with a large Jewish population or
not. We all have a responsibility to sound the alarm in order to prevent further
violence and vitriol because left unchecked, we know all too well the horrors
that threaten. We must prevent history from repeating itself."

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[[link removed]]#WeRemember: WJC launches fourth annual digital Holocaust education initiative
ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day

"We must heed the horrific lessons of the past and learn from and share the
stories of Holocaust survivors to honor the memory of the six million Jews the
Nazis killed and to ensure today’s escalation of hatred does not become a
repetition of those atrocities." said WJC President Ronald S. Lauder.

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[[link removed]]Board of Deputies of British Jews launches its Ten Pledges for Labour leadership
and deputy leadership candidates

Following Jeremy Corbyn’s four years in office, during which time antisemitism
in the party became a matter of great anxiety for the UK’s Jews, Board of
Deputies President Marie van der Zyl expressed the hope that the new leader will
address the problem promptly and energetically.
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[[link removed]]The Poles Who Tried to Save My Father

WJC Associate Executive Vice President and General Counsel Menachem Z. Rosensaft
writes that: "In the midst of the international controversy over who was
responsible for World War II and its carnage, three immutable realities must
underlie any constructive discussion: Nazi Germany started the war by invading
Poland on Sept. 1, 1939; Poland did not bear any responsibility for the
Hitlerite aggression of which it was the target; and the histories of Jewish
Poles and Christian Poles during the Holocaust era are symbiotically albeit
often uneasily intertwined."
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[[link removed]]WJC stands with Finnish Jewish community in condemning Left Alliance MP
Kontula’s biased attack against Israel

In a statment released this week the WJC said “[c]riticism of Israel, like of
any other country, is legitimate when due. However, holding Israel to a double
standard not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation is never
legitimate, and in fact constitutes an expression of antisemitism. This is not
just the stance of the Jewish communities of the world; it is one of the
fundamental examples of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s
working definition of antisemitism, which the European Parliament has also
adopted.”

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[[link removed]]Raoul Wallenberg: Disappeared Hero of the Holocaust | Opinion

Professor Irwin Cotler writes that after 75 years since the liberation of
Auschwitz, the "international drumbeat of evil and indifference can still feel
overwhelming, with the international community too often a bystander to atrocity
and injustice. How appropriate, then, that January 17, the day of Wallenberg’s
disappearance in the Soviet gulag in 1945, has been designated Raoul Wallenberg
Commemorative Day internationally in honor of this disappeared hero, who is also
an honorary citizen of Israel, Canada, Australia and the United States."
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[[link removed]]WJC and Bulgarian Jewish community concerned by ‘national round table’ on WWII
labor camps

During the conference, Spas Tashev, of the Demographic Institute at the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, called on the State Archives to abandon the use
of the term labor camps and spoke against monuments commemorating labor camps in
Bulgaria. In a statement, Shalom expressed its concern that the Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences, which organized the event is at risk of not only
associating itself “with fake history but with outright Holocaust distortion.”

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[[link removed]]Museum of Jewish Heritage and City Hall team up to confront antisemitism

The New York City Department of Education and the Museum of Jewish Heritage are
organizing educational field trips to the museum for students from Brooklyn
neighborhoods with large Orthodox communities.Mayor Bill de Blasio explained
that the partnership will give students and their families the opportunity to
“create a better future” and teach students about the damages caused by hatred
and bigotry.
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[[link removed]]WATCH | Behind the rise of Start-Up Nation Mentorship, a project of the WJC

Adam Shapiro, t he co-founder of the Start-Up Nation Mentorship, an initiative born in 2018 of
the World Jewish Congress’ annual Campus Pitch Competition, was interviewed last
week by I24 News to discuss the progress of the mentorship program since its
inception and the efforts being made to engage students and expand the discourse
about Israel and Jewish issues. At its heart, the mentorship creates meaningful
relationships for primarily non-Jewish students with Israeli professionals, to
gain career advice and be exposed to Israel outside of politics.
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[[link removed]] [[link removed]]The 2020 #WeRemember Campaign for International Holocaust Remembrance Day

The World Jewish Congress is proud to announce the launch of our fourth annual
#WeRemember Campaign for International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27,
2020. This year’s campaign comes at a particularly important time – antisemitism
is on the rise, and levels of knowledge about the Holocaust are on the decline.


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