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(JTA) — The European Parliament voted Thursday to adopt a resolution calling on member states and their institutions to apply the working definition of anti-Semitism of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Most of the 28 European Union states participate in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, though only Austria, Romania and the United Kingdom have formally…
The European Parliament passed a resolution that supports in principle recognition of a Palestinian state as part of peace talks with Israel. The resolution, which was drawn up by five political groups, passed Wednesday in a 498-88 vote in Strasbourg, the European Parliament’s press service wrote in a statement. There were 111 abstentions. The measure…
(JTA) — Armed with ropes and long sticks, a group of teens in Germany’s capital headed out under the cover of night. Their goal: to tear down from lampposts the campaign posters of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party. The young people are one small posse among those who fear gains for far-right parties in the…
