During the demonstration held on Saturday afternoon in the Place de la République in Paris, shouts of " Sales Juifs " (dirty Jews) were uttered, recorded and broadcasted on social networks.
On Thursday, June 11, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned France in a case of calls to boycott Israeli products. In this case, activists were convicted for inciting economic discrimination against people because of their nationality. This ECHR decision contradicts the case law of the Court of Cassation. Crif regrets this decision.
The Paris Court of Appeal announced that the murderer of Sarah Halimi has not been held criminally responsible. Crif expresses its dismay and indignation.
For Francis Kalifat, President of Crif, "the inadmissible remarks of a drifting Mélenchon eager for media visibility are inspired by a vichyst rhetoric of the Jewish conspiracy. Would Doriot be the new mentor of Mélenchon?"
Tuesday, December 3, the motion for a resolution to fight against antisemitism by redefining antisemitism as defined by the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance), was adopted by the National Assembly. Crif welcomes this decision.
Crif praises the historic decision of US President Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel, and the upcoming transfer of the US Embassy.
Last March, Macedonia adopted a definition of anti-Semitism that includes Israel hatred. Crif met with the President of the Jewish Community in the Republic of Macedonia, Berta Romano Nikolikj, in order to know and understand better the little Jewish community of Macedonia. We aslo got in touch with CEO of the Holocaust memorial center of the Jews from Macedonia, Goran Sadikarijo, who told us everything about the upcoming exhibition about the history of the Macedonian Jews.
"We call upon all the institutions of the State and the City, the Justice, the Religious and Spiritual Authorities of the country and the Civil Society, to condemn unambiguously and without reservation this desecration and to stand with absolutely zero tolerance against such phenomena of violence and intolerance."
This week, the Yom Haatzmaut celebrations began throughout Israel and around the world. Israel is celebrating its 70th birthday and the world intends to celebrate this new decade as it should!
The ceremony of reading the names of the Jewish deportees of France, organized by Paris Shoah Memorial, took place on the 11th and 12th of April. It continued uninterrupted during 24 hours. Francis Kalifat, President of Crif, was present and took part in the reading.
Francis Kalifat: "Antisemitic hatred has a strange ability to reinvent itself in many forms, and we need a real definition that includes all of its current forms, including anti-Zionism."
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