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Death threats made against Brussels Jewish group leader
A Brussels-based rabbi who has lobbied for improved security for European Jews filed a police complaint over death threats made against him.
Rabbi Menachem Margolin, the Israel-born head of the European Jewish Association lobby group, was threatened on his personal Facebook page shortly after the murder of a volunteer Jewish security guard outside the main synagogue of Copenhagen, according to a report today (Feb. 18) on the website of the Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism.
According to the news site kikar.col.il, the threat came amid many anti-Semitic slurs posted on Margolin’s Facebook page.
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