The program will be launched in Paris today at a meeting of the European Jewish Organizations Association • Includes legislation, punishment and the prevention of auctions of Nazi heritage items

The European Jewish Organizations Association (EJA) will launch today as part of its annual Paris conference, an overall operative program for strategic anti-Semitism in Europe.

The program has been formulated in recent months by the chairman of the European Jewish Organizations Association, Rabbi Menachem Margolin, and the EJA team, together with experts, heads of Jewish communities throughout Europe, organizations, ministers and MPs in various European countries, as well as consultations with members of the European Parliament.

This is an action plan that includes extensive activities with formal education systems in Europe, as well as the promotion of legislation required at both EU and country levels.

Israel Today has learned that various parts of the program are already operating as pilots in several European countries - in fruitful cooperation with the various governments.

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Alongside the pilot program, EJA conducts training workshops for Jewish youth from all over Europe to enhance young people's ability to detect and combat anti-Semitic activity in real time. The conference is held in conjunction with the French Consistoire, the League for Action and Defense of the APL and the World Zionist Organization.

"Anti-Semitism here and unfortunately - big time, and Jews are at the forefront. Will it never again in 2020? It should not be a question mark" - thus opens the program booklet that was published by "Israel Today", which includes a multilateral strategy for activity in EU countries.

In the educational channel, in which overall systemic thinking is invested, the program is influenced by the severe data on the increase in Holocaust-related ignorance across the continent, which requires a reassessment of curricula and updates. The program requires increasing resources for the teaching of the Holocaust, along with a distinct study of the contribution of Jews to civilian life in Europe, as well as emphasizing the historical weight of Jews in all walks of life, including in Jewish education, ethics and lifestyles.

On the legislative level, the EJA program promotes heavy punishment against the use of "Jewish stereotypes" - of an anti-Semitic nature in public - based on anti-discrimination legislation due to racial origin and the necessary legal protections in the fabric of public life.

Another chapter of the program is intended to prevent the auctioning of Nazi heritage items and non-profit souvenirs in the free market. At the same time, items considered to be of historical or academic value will be preserved in the national archives, museums and educational institutions.

Rabbi Menachem Margolin, chairman of the Association of Jewish Organizations in Europe: "From the conference comes a message of unification among hundreds of Jewish communities with the same strategy. It is not enough to say 'never again' - we must make sure that it is the case. Not to shout 'violence', 'anti-Semitism', but to determine the implementation of the program in a professional and orderly manner. "