Lauder: ‘As long as it’s possible to bring Nazi criminals to justice, it must be done’

– Lauder: ‘As long as it’s possible to bring Nazi criminals to justice, it must be done’

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 11 February 2016

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Lauder: ‘As long as it’s possible to bring Nazi criminals to justice, it must be done’

A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard went on trial in Germany Thursday accused of being an accessory to the murder of 170,000 people at the former death camp. WJC President Ronald Lauder: „It’s important that these trials are taking place.”

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Netanyahu names Nadav Argaman as next Shin Bet chief 

11 Feb 2016 Argaman, current deputy Shin Bet director, will replace Yoram Cohen in May 2016.  READ MORE »

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Netherlands: Anti-Semitic abuse keeps me off social media, says deputy prime minister – Times of Israel

11 Feb 2016 Dutch Deputy Prime Minister Lodewijk Asscher said he has stopped interacting on social media because of anti-Semitic abuse against him.  READ MORE »

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Israel, Netherlands to negotiate solution for survivor payments – Jerusalem Post

11 Feb 2016 The Dutch and Israeli governments are set to begin negotiations over the discontinuation of monthly payments to Holocaust survivors who have immigrated to Israel, the Knesset Finance Committee announced.  READ MORE »

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Consternation at Austrian case of Nazi camp survivors called ‘a plague’ – Reuters

11 Feb 2016 Concentration camp survivors voiced indignation on Wednesday at an Austrian prosecutor’s statement that it was justifiable for a far-right magazine to call people who were liberated from the Nazi camp at Mauthausen a criminal „plague”.  READ MORE »

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In meeting with Jewish group, British Labor party leader endorses two state solution – Jerusalem Post

11 Feb 2016 Despite Jeremy Corbyn’s conciliatory move, the Board of Deputies for British Jews was insistent that the politician do more to “address profound and real concerns” facing British Jewry.  READ MORE »

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Jewish groups press Cruz to explain controversial backer

11 Feb 2016 Republican hopeful touts endorsement of Mike Bickle, who seeks to convert the Jews and says God sent Hitler to hunt them.  READ MORE »