Mogherini: Anti-Semitism still alive in ‘civilized’ EU

27 January 2016, 9:25 pm

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EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini warns anti-Semitism still exists on continent, in statement to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

“We must be honest enough to admit that more than 70 years after the Shoah, anti-Semitism is still alive in our ‘civilized’ European Union,” says Mogherini, using the Hebrew term for the Holocaust.

This year’s commemorations come as a resurgence of anti-Semitism casts a shadow over a new generation of European Jews, something that is driving thousands of them each year to leave the continent.

At a ceremony at the United Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also speaks out against a “rising tide of anti-Semitism.”

— AP