Lauder also criticized the absence of any US representation at the anti-terror march in Paris in the wake of the attacks on the satiric weekly Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket.
The European Jewish Association and the European Jewish communities it represents organizes Tuesday a memorial ceremony in honour of the two victims of the recent terror attacks in Copenhagen.
The Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations of the US House of Representatives will hold next Tuesday a hearing on the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe in the wake of recent attacks in Paris and Copenhagen.
It is very important that European institutions take part in this effort with an “organized action plan and a clear and organized agenda,” says Foreign Ministry spokesman.
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherni has expressed support for the idea of creating a European task force to combat anti-Semitism, in a statement published in Italian daily La Repubblica.
Organizers of the referendum said that 2,056 total votes were cast in the school-wide referendum, which was proposed by the Students' Union on advice from the BDS movement as part of the Israel Apartheid Week.
CRIF, the umbrella representative group of the French Jewish community has called on its ''American friends'' to fight against the dissemination of Jew-hatred on the internet, in an appeal published in the New York Times.
