News from Communities

The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, the country’s EJC affiliate, has condemned a series of insults, containing fierce racist and antisemitic references, launched against the president of the Athens Jewish community, Minos Moissis, by the web edition of the newspaper MAKELEIO.

Austrian conservatives led by Sebastian Kurz reached a coalition deal with the far-right Freedom Party on Friday, paving the way for Austria to become the only western European country with such a party in government.

Belgium’s Jewish umbrella organisation and EJC affiliate, the Coordinating Committee of Jewish organisations in Belgium (CCOJB) has written to the FC Bruges football club to demand that an antisemitic song is no longer sang by supporters of the club.

Hungary’s nationalist Jobbik party will not return to its far-right origins, including frequent antisemitic and racist remarks by its politicians, party chairman Gabor Vona said on Friday.

A police officer responsible for foreign immigrants in wartime France has been posthumously honoured as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem for his role in saving Jews during the Holocaust.

A professor emeritus from an esteemed university in the Netherlands whose father was a Nazi called Jews “parasites” in a televised interview.