As International Day for the Holocaust Commemoration Day, scheduled for next week, relatives of the hostages in Gaza and major members of dozens of European Jewish communities asked members of the European Parliament on Thursday to reconsider the invitation of the Minister of Affairs of the Diaspora, Amichai Chikli, as the main speaker of a panel, reported Haaretz.
This panel, entitled “The indoctrination of hatred of Jews: what has changed in 80 years? “Will be organized on January 28 by MEPs Lukas Mandl (Austria) and Andrey Kovatchev (Bulgaria) as part of a wider event.
In a letter addressed to the organizers, the hostage families have deemed inappropriate the participation of Chikli, evoking his opposition to an agreement on hostages and his support for controversial European personalities of the extreme right.
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The signatories include 41 parents of hostages and 32 leaders of the Jewish community, according to Haaretz.
Chikli’s position on a hostage liberation agreement, they write, “contrasts strongly with the values of empathy and solidarity which should guide us, in particular the day of the commemoration of the Shoah”.
The signatories also denounce his support for far -right politicians, notably Marine Le Pen and the Romanian Călin Georgescu, the latter having praised notorious anti -Semitic figures and Nazi collaborators, “which questions his credibility. »»
“His presence at the conference is likely to give legitimacy to personalities and ideologies that contradict the fundamental objectives of the European Parliament,” concludes the letter.
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