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Palestinian armed groups in Gaza committed "hundreds" of war crimes during the unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW), which today released a report on the matter, which Hamas immediately rejected.
This investigation, which is one of the most thorough international studies to date on the attack that sparked the Gaza war, lists a number of crimes under international law.
"It's impossible for us to estimate the number of cases accurately," Belkis Will, deputy director of the human rights group, told a news conference, adding that "there were obviously hundreds that day."
These war crimes "include deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on civilians and non-military targets, deliberate killing of people in custody, cruel and inhuman treatment, sexual and gender-based violence, mutilation and desecration of the dead, use of human shields as well as looting and looting," it said. in the detailed report.
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Jews in Europe are "more anxious than ever" in the face of a "wave of anti-Semitism" that has swept through it since the Middle East conflict is undermining EU efforts, according to a major European survey published today.
According to this report by the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) based in Vienna, Austria, "96% of them" had encountered the phenomenon "online" or in their daily life in the 12 months preceding the survey.
The vast majority believe that "the situation has worsened in recent years," notes its president Shirpa Rautio in the preamble, although the answers refer to the period "before the attacks by Hamas in October 2023 and the war in Gaza."
In this context, 76% of Jews answered that they "occasionally hide their identity" in Europe, she points out. This is especially true in France, where 83% do so. After the war that broke out between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement, the situation has become even more grim, according to information gathered "most recently by 12 Jewish community organizations."
"The fallout from the conflict is damaging hard-won progress" and it was seen after the adoption of Europe's first anti-Semitism strategy in 2021 with a "spectacular increase" in incidents.
In France, 74% of Jews believe the conflict has an impact on the feeling of insecurity they experience – the highest among the countries surveyed – where 62% said they felt the same compared to just 9% in Hungary.
FRA, an EU agency, submitted an online questionnaire between January and June 2023 to nearly 8.000 Jews, aged 16 and over, living in 13 states that account for 96% of the bloc's Jewish population. This is the third survey on the subject after those in 2013 and 2018.
According to the survey's findings, the "negative stereotype" of wanting Jews to "own power, control finance and the media" is the most frequently used, followed by "denying Israel's right to exist as a state".
In 4% of cases, respondents said they had experienced anti-Semitic physical attacks compared to 2% in 2018. And 60% of them felt that their government's efforts to combat anti-Semitism were not important enough.
At the expense of their activities, Jewish organizations face an ever-increasing financial burden to ensure their security, which they often have to manage themselves.
SOURCE: ATHENS - MACEDONIAN NEWS AGENCY, 12.7.2024
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- THE RESEARCH ON FRA WEBSITE HERE – ON FILE PDF HERE
-FOREIGN TYPE: Times of Israel, 11.7.24
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In the electronic review of Jewish issues "K. La Revue: Les Juifs, l'Europe, le XXIe siècle" (22.2.2024) publishes the first part of journalist Sofia Christoforidou's research on anti-Semitism in Greece. Read on HERE the article.
The research was carried out on behalf of DILCRAH - France's Interministerial Commission to Combat Racism, Anti-Semitism, and LGBTQ Hatred - as part of a European Survey on the State of Public Policy to Combat Anti-Semitism and reveals the alarming spread of of prejudice against Jews in Greek society.
Through testimonies from Greek Jews, politicians and opinion polls, it becomes clear that anti-Semitism is an integral part of the Greek political landscape, although it is less violently expressed than elsewhere. The article includes statements by G.G. of Religion G. Kalantzis, the Special Envoy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Anti-Semitism, Ambassador Chr. Aleiferis, the President of KISE and IKTH D. Saltiel, the historian and member of the Greek Committee of IHRA Dr. Leon Saltiel, and Jews of Thessaloniki such as Iosif Vaena and Pola Taramboulos.
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The "History of Anti-Semitism" refers to the documentary series that was first broadcast by ERT3 and was completed in 4 hour-long episodes.
You can watch the documentary series on ERTFLIX and its website HERE.
The documentary presents a historical and "scientific" investigation into understanding the complexity of anti-Semitism. Sometimes called "the longest-lived hatred," anti-Semitism has appeared in many places around the world and in multiple forms for more than two thousand years. This unique persistence, as well as the heterogeneity of the phenomenon, have given rise to numerous ideological exploitations, political manipulations and anachronistic interpretations.
The ambitious documentary unfolds a story of demonization that is deeply intertwined with the societies, countries and ages in which it takes place. It is the story of the anti-Semites, those who, over time, made the Jews their worst enemies.
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- THE REPORT OF THE US SECRETARY ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM – WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT GREECE
- AN OVERVIEW OF ANTI-SEMITIC EPISODES IN THE EU 2011 – 2021. FRA REPORT
- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE GREEK REPRESENTATION OF IHRA ON ANTI-SEMITISM ON THE INTERNET. IOANNINA 7-9 OCTOBER 2022
