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WGAS organises high-level conference in the European Parliament on the rise of extremism, Islamism and antisemitism in Europe

March 5, 2025XavierMeeting
The Working Group Against Antisemitism (WGAS), together with the European Jewish Congress, which serves as the secretariat and a member of the advisory board of WGAS, and the EPP Group in the European Parliament, organised the high-level conference 'European Democracies at a Crossroads: Battling Extremism, Islamist Terrorism, and Antisemitism' in the European Parliament in Brussels....
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WGAS organises high-level conference in the European Parliament on the rise of extremism, Islamism and antisemitism in Europe

March 5, 2025Xavier
The Working Group Against Antisemitism (WGAS), together with the European Jewish Congress, which serves as the secretariat and a member of the advisory board of WGAS, and the EPP Group in the European Parliament, organised the high-level conference 'European Democracies at a Crossroads: Battling Extremism, Islamist Terrorism, and Antisemitism' in the European Parliament in Brussels....
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WGAS holds Board Meeting devoted to the surge of antisemitism in Europe since October 7

November 10, 2023Xavier
The European Parliament Working Group against Antisemitism (WGAS) held a Board Meeting to discuss the ongoing increase in antisemitic incidents in Europe since October 7, following the start of the war between Israel and Hamas. The meeting was hosted by WGAS Chair Nicola Beer MEP (Renew Europe) who was joined by Vice-Chair Sergey Lagodinsky MEP (Greens)...
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WGAS holds presentation about UNESCO project on fighting antisemitism, intolerance and discrimination through education

May 23, 2023Xavier
The European Parliament Working Group against Antisemitism (WGAS) held a presentation at the European Parliament entitled ‘Educating against antisemitism, intolerance and discrimination’  in the European Parliament in Brussels on 23 May 2023. The event was hosted by WGAS Board Member Ilana Cicurel in cooperation with the European Jewish Congress (EJC) and B’nai B’rith International and...
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Statements

The Working Group against Antisemitism holds constitutive meeting for the 2025-2029 parliamentary term and condemns the brutal murder of the Bibas family by Hamas

February 20, 2025Xavier
The Working Group against Antisemitism (WGAS) – an informal cross-party working group of Members of the European Parliament held its constitutive meeting for the new legislature, setting priorities and agenda for this term.  All MEPs present expressed their utmost condemnation of the murder of the Bibas family by the terrorist organisation Hamas, demanding the immediate...
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WGAS strongly condemns surge in antisemitism following Hamas attack on Israel and calls for immediate and unconditional release of all hostages

November 8, 2023Xavier
(Brussels, 8 November 2023) – The European Parliament Working Group against Antisemitism (WGAS) expresses its deep concern at the sharp increase in incidents of antisemitism targeting Jews and Jewish institutions across Europe since the barbaric attack by the Hamas terrorist organization on Israeli towns and villages, occurred exactly one month ago on October 7. The...
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WGAS sends Hanukkah greetings to European Jews

December 19, 2022Xavier

 

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European Parliament Members condemn EU decision to release funds to PA as a reward for hate

June 16, 2022Xavier
(Brussels, 15 June 2022) - The Members of the European Parliament Working Group Against Antisemitism (WGAS) have criticised the decision by the European Commission to release funds destined for the Palestinian Authority that had been withheld due to antisemitism in Palestinian textbooks and would be “disbursed rapidly.” The decision was announced by European Commission President...
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Statement by Nicola Beer MEP, Chair of the European Parliament Working Group Against Antisemitism on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

January 27, 2022Xavier
77 Years after the liberation of Auschwitz, we see a growing gap of knowledge of the Holocaust among young people in the EU. This must be of deepest concern to us. 77 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, knowledge of the Holocaust is in decline worldwide including in the EU. According to a survey by...
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Parliamentary Activities

Congratulations letter from the Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism in the United States House of Representatives

June 28, 2017Secretariat
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EP Motion for resolution on combatting Antisemitism

June 1, 2017Secretariat
The European Parliament passed with an overwhelming majority the ‘Motion for resolution on combating antisemitism’, which includes  a call to Member States to adopt and use the IHRA working definition of antisemitism and to increase cooperation with Jewish communities on security issues. getDoc
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Parliamentary question: The impact social media stakeholders have on European citizens and rising anti-Semitism in the wake of increasing radicalisation

January 7, 2016EP WGAS

 Subject:  The impact social media stakeholders have on European citizens and rising anti-Semitism in the wake of increasing radicalisation The threat from terrorism remains strong in Europe and the Internet creates more and more opportunities to become radicalised, acting as an echo chamber for extremist beliefs and connecting like-minded individuals from across the world 24/7….

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Parliamentary question: Combating the rise in anti-Semitism

November 3, 2015EP WGAS

Subject:  Combating the rise in anti-Semitism In the light of figures indicating a steep rise in the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the UK in 2015 compared with 2014, can the Commission please indicate what funding and other forms of assistance it will provide to combating this rising scourge anew? Answer given by Ms Jourová on…

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Parliamentary question: Hate speech on the Internet and in online media

August 25, 2015EP WGAS

Subject:  Hate speech on the Internet and in online media The Internet and online media enable users to create, publish, distribute and utilise multimedia content in many different ways, thus providing an arena for creativity and communication. In the sphere of human rights, the language of hatred, as such, is not a new problem. However,…

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Experts Blog

Spelling of antisemitism

July 1, 2019Secretariat

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) would like to address the spelling of the term ‘antisemitism’, often rendered as ‘anti-Semitism’. IHRA’s concern is that the hyphenated spelling allows for the possibility of something called ‘Semitism’, which not only legitimizes a form of pseudo-scientific racial classification that was thoroughly discredited by association with Nazi ideology, but…

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Why antisemitism is still alive?

May 9, 2018Secretariat

(Published in Ι Kathimerini Newspaper April 5, 2018)   By Photini Tomai* The experience gained from the close monitoring of anti-Semitism and Holocaust issues for over two decades leaves no scope for misjudgments: anti-Semitism is still here; so are its derivatives, regardless of their grade and intensity, whenever and wherever onset. At his opening address…

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Germany, the Holocaust and the Rise of Anti-Semitism

May 7, 2018Secretariat

​I am German, I am Jewish, my Grandmother is a Schindler survivor. Her fate living through the Holocaust has led me to my academic and professional career and is the driving motivation behind my work combating anti-Semitism and advocating for Holocaust remembrance in Europe as director of EU Affairs for B’nai B’rith International. Jewish life…

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The European Parliament Resolution on combating antisemitism praised by intellectuals

July 24, 2017Secretariat

The Resolution on combating antisemitism, adopted by the European Parliament in June, was welcomed by twelve intellectuals who commended in a public letter this undertaking in support of the fight against antisemitism and anti-Zionism. They praised the decision of the European Parliament to include anti-Zionism in the definition of antisemitism as a form of expression…

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Austrian Government adopts working definition of Antisemitism

May 4, 2017Secretariat

On 25 April 2017 the Austrian Government adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. A spokesman for the Österreichische Volkspartei said that Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz’s approval of the working definition should send a “national and international signal”. The Austrian Government noted that the working definition was the first such working…

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