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WJC News Update – Plight of Jewish refugees from Arab countries highlighted

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 01 December 2014

WJC VIDEOS – Another story: the Jewish refugees from Arab countries

The World Jewish Congress brings you the personal stories of six people who witnessed the end of Jewish life in their countries of origin, from Iraq to Libya, and were forced to start from scratch.

Venezuelan lawmaker: ‘Zionists bankrolled Hitler’

A member of the National Congress of Venezuela recently told Lebanese television suggested that “no representatives of global Zionism” had been killed during the Nazi Holocaust for being supportive of Adolf Hitler.

Elliott Abrams: The British royals, Arabs, and Israel – Council on Foreign Relations Blog

01 Dec 2014 The bizarre story of the refusal of British royals to visit Israel, while they are constantly in the Arab world, continues. READ MORE »

For the first time, Israel commemorates plight of Jewish refugees from Arab lands

01 Dec 2014 On Sunday, Israel officially remembered the suffering of an estimated 850,000 Jews who left, were expelled from, or fled from their homes in, Arab and other Muslim countries in the wake of the establishment of the State of Israel. READ MORE »

Collection’s Pissarro is called looted art – New York Times

01 Dec 2014 Minutes after the Kunstmuseum Bern revealed for the first time a list of artworks Cornelius Gurlitt had stashed in his second home near the Austrian Alps, its promise of full transparency seemed to clear away decades of murky silence about a delicate Pissarro painting showing the Louvre in Paris and bridges spanning the Seine. READ MORE »