EJC calls on Europe’s university rectors to protect Jewish students 

The European Jewish Congress has called upon the rectors of Europe’s leading universities to protect Jewish student rights free from intimidation and attack, as European universities see occupations and demonstrations from anti-Zionist activists.

Statements

EJC calls on Europe’s university rectors to protect Jewish students 

The European Jewish Congress has called upon the rectors of Europe’s leading universities to protect Jewish student rights free from intimidation and attack, as European universities see occupations and demonstrations from anti-Zionist activists.

Events & Meetings

EJC Vice-President and Director of European Affairs attended the 15th EU-Israel High-Level seminar in Brussels

EJC Vice President Raya Kalenova and EJC Director of European Affairs Ariella Woitchik participated in the 15th EU-Israel High-Level Seminar on combating racism, xenophobia, and antisemitism that took place in the European Commission in Brussels.

News from Communities

EJC in the media

Mein Bezirk: “Pro-Palestine camp a “disgrace for Austria”

The European Jewish Congress called on the University of Vienna to “take rapid action against those who engage in antisemitic rhetoric and glorify terrorist organisations on their campus."

News & Views

US President condemns the rise of antisemitism sparked by college protests

United States President Joe Biden decried a “ferocious surge” in antisemitism on college campuses and around the globe in the months since Hamas attacked Israel.

Life in Israel

Israeli cabinet approves national remembrance day for October 7 massacre

The annual memorial will be marked by two state ceremonies honoring the memory of the servicemen and women who fell in the ongoing war against Hamas and the civilians murdered during Hamas’s brutal incursion.

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Shoah Commemoration

More than 70 years after the Shoah, the systematic murder of six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators, representing a third of the world’s Jewish population and a half of Europe’s, it is incumbent upon us as Jews and as Europeans to maintain the memory of this most unique of genocides and to draw the lessons from it for our own days.

We must seek different methods to convey the same message of where hatred and intolerance and antisemitism lead. The most important of these is through education and the EJC works with governments and local authorities to ensure the insertion and maintenance of Holocaust education in curricula and non-curricula activities.

About us

The EJC was created to give a unified voice to Jewish communities around Europe, representing their common interests and concerns, but at the same time allowing smaller Jewish communities a wider platform to express their specific needs.

It federates democratically elected national Jewish community organisations in over 40 European countries uniting 2.5 million Jews across the continent.