The Prime Minister of Luxembourg signs an agreement to return Jewish property from the Holocaust • In an interview with Israel Today, Cassava warns against the hatred of Jews and minorities
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Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Batal warns of rising anti-Semitism and hate speech against minorities in his country and in Western countries.
In a conversation with Israel Today before the signing ceremony of the agreement between his government and the local Jewish community and the ILR organization for the restoration of Jewish property from the Holocaust, Batal said: "It would not be right to claim that Luxembourg is protected from anti-Semitism and racism.
There is anti-Semitism and racism and there always will be.
Need to fight it.
The discourse of hatred must not be accepted - against Jews, gypsies, gays, the disabled.
Antisemitism is a reality today.
Also racism and homophobia.
It must not be accepted.
There is a tendency today to remain silent in the face of these phenomena.
Need to protest against them.
Our luck is that we do not have an extreme right-wing party, unlike other European countries.
But in Greece, until recently, a neo-Nazi party sat in parliament.
Have we learned anything from history? "
According to the Compensation and Holocaust Remembrance Agreement signed yesterday by Prime Minister Batal, the Luxembourg government will transfer a token sum of one million euros to support Holocaust survivors from Luxembourg, provide 30,000 euros in aid to the Luxembourg Holocaust Memorial Fund established two years ago, The Jews of Luxembourg went to the German concentration and extermination camps and set up an educational center to commemorate the Holocaust. According to Gideon Taylor, Chairman of the ILR: "The agreement is a deep commitment of the Luxembourg government to work to preserve the memory of the Jews who were persecuted and murdered during the Nazi occupation.
"75 years after the Holocaust, the agreement provides assistance to survivors from Luxembourg and works to return property taken by the Nazis."
"This is a very important agreement," Batal told Israel Today, "an agreement concerning history, present and future. My government was the one that apologized to the Jewish community for suffering during the Holocaust, a late apology. We built an important memorial site, established a Holocaust memorial fund. We have now purchased the Five Springs Monastery, which was a site of suffering for the Jews, and will provide the Memorial Fund with the necessary means to continue its activities. The apology. "
Asked why it took Luxembourg so long to decide on a compensation agreement for Holocaust victims, Batal, who has been in office since 2014 and is in his second term, replied: "As prime minister, I am also responsible for what happened in the country in the past. But I can not say why previous governments did not initiate moves. Or have reached this goal.I am proud that my current and previous government have done what should have been done.The Holocaust survivors in Luxembourg and the Jewish community greatly appreciate the work being done in Luxembourg in the context of memory and the fight against anti-Semitism.Never too late, though in this context it is never too early to do things. It's time to dump her and move on. "
