European Jewish Congress
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Based in Paris, with offices in Brussels, Strasbourg, Berlin and Budapest, the EJC is the sole representative body of democratically elected European Jewish communities throughout Europe.
Affiliated to the World Jewish Congress, the EJC works with national governments, European Union institutions and the Council of Europe. It federates and co-ordinates the 40 elected leaders of national Jewish communities in Europe, encompassing approximately 2.5 million Jews.
The President of the European Jewish Congress is elected every two years renewable by a “General Assembly” of Jewish community representatives and works in consortium with an elected “Executive” of community presidents.
In 2006, the European Jewish Congress released a report detailing a new wave of antisemitic incidents in most of Western Europe in the wake of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, in contrast to neutral or pro-Israel sentiment in the former Eastern bloc as well as in Denmark.
The report cited:
· the first instances of antisemitism in Turkey since the change of regime in 2002;
· 83 instances of antisemitism in Austria from April through August 2006, compared to 50 in the same period of 2005;
· 61 instances of antisemitism in France from April through August 2006, compared to 34 in the same period of 2005;
· normalization of antisemitic political and media rhetoric in Greece after the conflict.
