In a Jewish New Year greeting, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Europeans need to condemn antisemitism.
“For us all, fellow Europeans, remembrance means to vigorously condemn any forms of antisemitism, racism and discrimination on the basis of belief,” Barroso writes in a letter to Rabbi Levi Matusof on behalf of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE).
“Be assured of my commitment and determination in pursuing that cause,” he adds.
The Rabbinical Center of Europe, which is an organisation dedicated to meeting the religious and spiritual needs of Jewish communities in Europe, said it hopes that Barroso’s message “is indicative of a more forceful approach to antisemitism in Europe at all levels.”
“Barroso’s welcome comments need to be internalised by all Europeans, from the unemployed European to the highest levels of the European institutions,” Rabbi Arye Goldberg, RCE’s deputy director, said.
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