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Brussels- December 10, 2018- On the occasion of International Human Rights Day, on Monday December 10, 2018, Věra Jourová, European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality and Katharina von Schnurbein, European Commission Coordinator on combating Antisemitism and Michael O’Flaherty, Director of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, presented the results of the survey at an event in the Council gathering representatives of Jewish communities and organisations, policy makers of the Member States, as well as representatives of civil society and the media and experts on the fight against racism and discrimination.
arab news-JEDDAH: The Muslim World League (MWL) is using all of its academic and ideological resources to confront the evil forces that threaten the global safety of humanity, according to Dr. Mohammed bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa, the organization’s secretary general.
Haaretz- A Saudi-based Muslim group rejected Holocaust denial in a letter to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. “History is indeed impartial no matter how hard forgers tried to tamper with or manipulate it,” said the letter sent Jan. 22 to the museum by Mohammad Al Issa, the secretary general of the Muslim World League, five days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day. “Hence, we consider any denial of the Holocaust or minimizing of its effect a crime to distort history and an insult to the dignity of those innocent souls who have perished. It is also an affront to us all since we share the same human soul and spiritual bonds.”
The Times of Israel- In a bid to preserve interest in the Holocaust by future generations, the Basel-based Anne Frank Foundation unveiled the first authorized comic book based on the teenager’s famous diary written in hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam.
Passover and Easter: similarities and differences By Meir Waintrater, coordinator of the project " Know the religion of thy neighbors"
