WJC Regional Reports 2011 - World Jewish Congress

year and Von Trier's outburst is merely another example. There must be consequences for these types
of racist tirades, or it will just continue and escalate. It is vital that the European political leadership
draw a line and legally proscribe hate speech, because Jews are becoming the fashionable target of
increasingly intolerant elements within the political, academic and entertainment strata. Just as the
fashion industry has made John Galliano an outcast because of his hate speech, so the
film industry should do the same with Von Trier."
Inter-religious activity
March 2011: Cwajgenbaum and Glikerman attended the 21st International Catholic-Jewish Liaison
Committee in Paris. Cwajgenbaum met separately with Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum from FFEU.
Cwajgenbaum and Glikerman attended the meeting of Muslim and Jewish leaders from across Europe
gathered in Paris as a follow-up of the Brussels meeting, at the initiative of the Foundation For Ethnic
Understanding, the WJC and the World Council of Muslims for Interfaith Relations.
Israel
April 2011: EJC President Moshe Kantor met with Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and
invited him to a European conference of heads of state which will take place in the coming months to
discuss the assault on Israel’s legitimacy. Kantor and Netanyahu discussed the issues of anti-
Semitism, Iran and agreed to closer coordination on issues concerning Israel and European Jewry.
EJC Executive meetings and General Assembly
January 2011: Meeting of WJC directors
While in Brussels, Cwajgenbaum and Glikerman attended the working meeting gathering all directors
of WJC regions in presence of Michael Schneider WJC acting Secretary General and Dan Diker future
Secretary General.
April 2011: General Assembly
Prior to the EJC General Assembly in Budapest, which took place on Sunday April 3rd, President
Kantor met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, President of the Council of the European
Union, accompanied by leaders of the Hungarian Jewish community Zoltai and Feldmajer, as well as
Cwajgenbaum and Kalenova. During the meeting, Kantor called for the European Parliament to retract
its endorsement of the Goldstone Report, and also called on the Hungarian prime minister to push for
an upgrade of EU-Israeli relations, which were suspended following the EU Parliament’s endorsement
of the Goldstone report. PM Orban also expressed his interest in Kantor’s initiative of establishing a
“European Institute on Tolerance and Security.”
EJC hosted an intercommunity Shabbat followed by the EJC annual General Assembly in Budapest the
1st – 3rd April, under the presidency of Moshe Kantor. On the agenda: The recent revolutions in the
Arab world and the implications for Europe and Israel; the Current Challenges the Jewish communities
in Europe are facing, including the rise of anti-Semitism, the rise of populism and the delegitimization
of Israel; the ongoing issue of Shechita in Europe; Jewish demography in Europe; the Iranian threat.
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