Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu declared that his government ‘’will not succumb to the Jewish lobby, the Armenian lobby or the lobby of the Turkish-Greek minority.’’
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said it was deeply troubled by a thinly veiled anti-Semitic appeal made by the leadership of the Donetsk and Lugansk pro-Russian “People’s Republics,” who referred to the government in Kiev as “pathetic representatives of the great Jewish people.”
On Monday, February 2, the leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics — Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky — gave a joint press conference in Donetsk on behalf of parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine that are currently occupied by Russians and their collaborators.
Establishing on EU or national level a body that would deal with the dramatic rise of anti-Semitism highlighted once again earlier this month by the attack against a kosher supermarket in Paris in which four people were killed, is a measure encouraged by the US administration.
This year’s remembrance of the liberation of Auschwitz has been marred by some German politicians’ bizarre liking for Iranian Holocaust deniers and terrorists.
Unknown vandals desecrated Holocaust ‘’memorial cobblestones’’ in Brussels fixed to the pavement outside the former home of a Jewish family whose members were deported and murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz.