The shooting at Charlie Hebdo last month was not only a human tragedy, but it was also a systematic failure at European level and of our education systems, stated European Commissioner for Education, Tibor Navracsics, at a meeting with Jewish community leaders who addressed the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in Europe.
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.”
The Euro-Asian Jewish Congress expressed outrage at what it termed ''provocative statements'' made by Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky, leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics in Ukraine, at a press conference on Monday.
Likud officials believe it is important to win traditional underclass Likud voters away from Kahlon, who may take his party into a coalition led by Herzog.
