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Action Plan - Combating Antisemitsm 2013 & Beyond

  • 9/10/2013
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    The main task of the 4th Conference of the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism held in Jerusalem on 28-30th May 2013 - to come up with a strategy to combat antisemitism - has been successfully achieved is presented as: “The Action Plan for Combating Antisemitism 2013 and Beyond”.

    ​The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs organized the 4th GFCA conference in Jerusalem, on 28-30th May 2013, whose aim was to serve as an arena for individuals, organizations and government representatives from more than 50 states and six different religions, to come up with a strategy to combat antisemitism.

    That task has been successfully achieved and is presented herewith in the concluding document of the 4th Conference of the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism as:

    “The Action Plan for Combating Antisemitsm 2013 and Beyond”

    This is not a document prepared by the Israeli government or by any other single organ, and as such does not necessarily represent any official position. It does, however, represent the outcome of three days of intensive work by many of the conference participants. It is written by the Co-Chairs of the 10 working groups – the very heart of the conference - who volunteered to conduct a joint thinking process by the participants. The common denominator of these participants was one: They are all concerned about the persistence of antisemitism in the 21st century.

    We hope that everyone who reads this document, even if they do not agree with one or another of the actions recommended, will agree with the urgent need to fight antisemitism. If this document achieves that, then all the efforts of more than 550 people who convened and helped formulate it will have been worthwhile. As Deputy Foreign Minister Zeev Elkin said in his opening speech:

    “…Antisemitism is not only an Israeli problem or just a Jewish problem. It is foremost the problem of every society in which it is allowed to manifest itself. History has taught us that for evil to prevail over good, it is enough that decent people stay silent and complacent while the immoral and hateful few gain power. That is why it is so important that governments, parliaments, international organizations and civil society around the world adopt a zero-tolerance approach towards antisemitism.”

    To further quote the closing speech of the Foreign Ministry’s Director General, Amb. Refael Barak:

    “The uniqueness of the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism lies in the diversity of its participants, and their willingness to come together to help end this ancient malady that has poisoned the minds of too many generations against the Jewish people. This year we will be marking 70 years since the destruction of many Jewish communities in the darkest of times, the Holocaust – Shoah. While still trying to grasp the enormity of the tragedy this Genocide brought on our nation, we are shocked that the root of the evil designed and perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators – the antisemitic perception that Jews don’t deserve to be treated equally like any other people, creed or race – still exists today and even continues to spread and evolve.”

    I therefore wish again to thank all the participants of the Global Forum for helping to formulate this Action Plan, and I call on all moral people who read this document to join us to help better achieve a zero tolerance attitude towards antisemitsm.

    Amb. Gideon Behar,
    Director of the MFA Department for Combating Antisemitism
    Chair of the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism 2013​​
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