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Jewish lobbying sways EU against support of Goldstone Gaza report
Members of the European Parliament have backtracked from their plan to pass a resolution demanding implementation of the Goldstone report, in response to pressure from European Jewish leaders, Haaretz has learned.
After leaders of all the major EP parties had agreed on the wording of a draft demanding implementation of the controversial document - which accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza last year and proposed prosecuting Israeli officials in the International Criminal Court - the European Union's legislative body was scheduled to vote on the measure Wednesday.
But Tuesday, leaders of the parties backed away from the draft, after the president of the European Jewish Congress, Moshe Kantor, warned them that adopting it would seriously harm EU-Israel ties. "It appears inconceivable that while the United Nations itself hasn't yet officially adopted this report, the European Parliament, in this motion for a resolution, calls for and demands its implementation," he wrote in a letter sent to the heads of major EP parties.
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 Police decoys have helped reduce street crime. The “decoy Jew” has now been added to the police attributes.
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European Jewish Youth Go to the Big Apple |
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 Despite volcanic disruptions to European air travel, 150 Europeans traveled to New York for the first transatlantic ECJS event May 6-10.
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Matthew Ostrove Attends ECJS Conference |
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 Ostrove told the Winnipeg Jewish Review that he had the opportunity to talk to a lot of European Jewish students, ages 18-35, about the their concerns, including anti-Semitism.
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