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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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#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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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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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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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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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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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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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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WATCH | Behind the rise of Start-Up Nation Mentorship, a project of the WJC
Adam Shapiro, the 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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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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