“For Jews across Europe, the stakes in the forthcoming European elections have rarely been higher,” said EJA chairman and founder Rabbi Menachem Margolin.
Ahead of the European elections in May 2019, the European Jewish Association (EJA), a Brussels-based group representing Jewish communities across the continent, is launching a wide-ranging consultation of European Jewry in order to get agreement around a series of “red lines.”
The draft red lines, which include the exclusion from government of parties that espouse antisemitism as set out in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition, call on all political parties to pass binding resolutions rejecting the anti-Israel BDS movement as fundamentally antisemitic and to support freedom of religion, will be debated and voted on at the EJA’s flagship annual conference from Nov. 6-7 in Brussels.
Once approved, an official resolution, encompassing the views of Jewry across the continent, will be forwarded to all political leaders and parties standing in the European elections, and are expected to be signed up to and included in party literature and manifestos. Read more.
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Iran manufacturing, upgrading missiles in Iraq, sources say
Ariel Kahana
Jewish News Syndicate • October 23, 2018
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Iran is building factories to manufacture and upgrade missiles in Iraq, in addition to its efforts in Syria and Lebanon, Israeli intelligence has discovered.
According to reports, Iran has already shipped missiles to Shi’ite militias in Iraq and helped Iraq set up missile factories in its territory. Read more.
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Four Iran environmentalists could face death penalty
Digital Journal • October 24, 2018
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Four detained Iranian environmental activists could face the death penalty after the charges levelled against them were changed, the Tehran prosecutor said on Wednesday.
"After completion of the investigation, the charges against four of the defendants have been changed to corruption on earth," said Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, cited by Mizan Online, a news outlet run by the judiciary.
"Corruption on earth" is one of the most serious charges in Iran and can be punishable by death. Read more.
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The deal that disappeared
Eldad Beck
Israel Today • October 24, 2018
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Historian Kobby Barda has found a lost chapter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: After World War II, the U.S. gave Israel and Arab nations $1.5 billion to solve the Middle East refugee problem. But only Israel lived up to its end of the deal. Read more.
Image: Kobby Barda. (Source: Israel Today)
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