Morocco voiced "growing" concern about the increasing Islamophobia, Morocco's Ambassador to the international organizations Omar Znibar said on Tuesday in Astana (Kazakhstan). Speaking at a conference of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Znibar underlined the importance to "strongly condemn the confusion, made by the media and some public discourses, between any religion and terrorism".

In an article in the International Herald Tribune, former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan sees Holocaust education as a way of making students think harder about civic responsibility, human rights and the dangers of racism, and argues that we need to connect the Holocaust with other instances of genocide.

EJP : Some 200 decision makers in the field of education, from approximately 40 countries will participate in a unique educational conference at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

Aladdin Project celebrated its first anniversary in late March 2010. On this occasion, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has produced a podcast titled "Aladdin Project after a year" in which Anne-Marie Revcolevschi, President of Aladdin Project presented the outline of this project. The podcast has been posted on the ministry’s websites and youtube.

The symposium, to be held in Paris from June 2 to 4, explores contemporary perceptions of the Holocaust among European Muslims. Scholars and experts from European countries such as France, Germany, UK and the Netherlands are invited to discuss these issues from their perspective. The Aladdin Project's Jean Mouttapa and Abe Radkin will address the symposium.

In an interview published in French-language weekly "L'Observateur du Maroc", Shlomo Amar, Chief Rabbi of the Sephardic community in Israel, described King Mohammed VI of Morocco as a "man of peace" and hoped the sovereign would "continue to promote peace" in the Middle-East.