European Jewish leader warns against neo-Nazi phenomenon in Europe

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It is still our father’s Europe. From EJP: Speaking at a special commemoration organized Monday evening in the European Parliament ‘s Yehudi Menuhin Hall on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Kantor said: “There are more neo-Nazis than Jews today in Europe.” Kantor, who lost half of his family in the Shoah or Holocaust in Ukraine, deplored the “trivialization” of the neo-Nazi phenomenon and warned that “lessons of history have not been learned.” “We should not allow things to be repeated,” he added, in the presence of the president of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Poettering. Poettering, who is a

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Online, the shadow of Auschwitz

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From Christopher Wolf, chair of the International Network Against Cyber-Hate and of the Internet Task Force of the Anti-Defamation League, is a partner in the Washington office of Proskauer Rose LLP.: Human rights experts from around the world gathered in Poland recently in a bid to counterthe misuse of the Internet by hate groups. Sitting in a Warsaw conference room, the group viewed the latest online content produced by neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic hate groups, all reminiscent of the Nazi propaganda seen in that city more than 60 years ago. Gone are the days when hate groups met in

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