Tourists who recently visited the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in southern Poland were horrified to see “showers” installed at the entrance of the site, where over a million Jews were killed in gas chambers disguised as shower rooms.
Last month the FJC launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise $28,500 to expand the Or Avner kindergarten in Zhitomir, Ukraine. The expansion is necessary to provide proper schooling for the influx of Ukrainian refugees the city has seen due to the civil war.
A columnist and blogger for pro-Kremlin paper used a picture of Israeli shielding a baby during Operation Protective Edge, claiming it was a Ukrainian civilian separatist.
Israeli Minister Miri Regev said that if Barenboim really plans to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic in Tehran he will undermine Israel’s efforts to block the Iranian nuclear deal and aid efforts to delegitimize Israel.