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Groups 'need more unified message' to fight antisemitism that is 'worst since Second World War', JLC chair says

Jonathan Goldstein says organisations are not 'maximizing our resources' and problem is 'getting out of control'

February 7, 2020 13:36
Jonathan Goldstein (second from the right, pictured with other communal leaders at the Enough Is Enough demonstration)
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Jewish organisations must find a "more unified message" in the face of growing antisemitism that is the worst since the Second World War, the chair of the Jewish Leadership Council has said.

Jonathan Goldstein said anti-Jewish racism was "a disease which is threatening to be out of control" but that Jewish groups were not “maximizing our resources as a global people".

"The future of global Jewry is under threat to an extent which it has never been since the end of the Second World War," he said in an interview with the Times of Israel.

Moving on to talk about the Jewish response to the situation, he added: "Our major organisations are so at war with each other in a global sense; they are so disparate.

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