Protesters and Israeli police officers clash during a demonstration near the Israeli Knesset on Jin Jerusalem, Israel. This is only possible from personal visits, not just by school books, but to actually see a concentration camp, to see what it means murdering 6 million people.” The institute, Laschet explained, will bring teachers from Abraham Accords signatory countries and other Arab nations to Germany “to show them what a catastrophe the Holocaust was in the whole world.” The initiative, he suggested, “could change thinking in Arab societies.” “ more young people to become empathetic. High hopes: “In Arab states, they never spoke about the Holocaust,” he told eJP, adding that this is starting to change. “I decided to found an organization to make more known in Germany,” he said, adding that currently, “Germany has an institute that works across party lines to inform the public and politicians about what the Abraham Accords are and ways towards peace in the region.” The idea for the nonprofit came to Laschet soon after the Abraham Accords were signed in 2020, he recalled. Working toward peace: Armin Laschet, vice president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, spent last week in New York raising funds for the new organization. Now, the reach of the Accords is spreading to Germany, where a member of the German Bundestag, inspired by the historic agreements, is launching a new nonprofit aimed at raising Holocaust awareness in the Arab world, reports eJewishPhilanthropy’s Haley Cohen. The Abraham Accords have led to warmer ties, increased trade and more robust people-to-people exchanges between Israel and the Arab countries with which it signed the normalization pacts in 2020, as well as more Muslim-Jewish dialogue more broadly. The ADL chief said the goal of the task force is to “share best practices, see what works, and also to coordinate responses more effectively.” These subjects include: policy and advocacy, tech policy, security, extremism and education against antisemitism. “By working together, we strengthen our ability to tackle antisemitism wherever it emerges,” Marie van der Zyl, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said in a statement. The seven countries involved are all Western-style democracies and are all facing similar challenges, he said. It felt like as we were talking that there were these shared experiences, a similar socio-political context,” Greenblatt said. “Increasingly… we see in liberal democracies all over the Earth intensifying antisemitism, expanding polarization, deepening division. The ADL spearheaded the creation of the task force following regular, informal discussions with representatives of these communities about antisemitism and ways to counter it, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt told eJP on Monday night, before the J7 was announced. The participating countries are: the United States, represented by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the Anti-Defamation League the United Kingdom, represented by the Board of Deputies of British Jews France, represented by the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF) Germany, represented by the Central Council of Jews in Germany Canada, represented by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs Argentina, represented by the Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas and Australia, represented by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. Umbrella organizations representing seven of the largest Jewish communities outside of Israel joined together this week in a new coalition to combat antisemitism: J7, the Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism, reports eJewishPhilanthropy’s Judah Ari Gross. We’ll start with the launch of the Anti-Defamation League’s new international initiative to combat antisemitism. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on a new German initiative to teach Arab countries about the Holocaust, the ways that American Jewish groups have responded to the Israeli government’s passage of a judicial overhaul bill and the dropping acceptance rate for federal nonprofit security grants.
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