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Press Release
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Feb 10, 2023 09:00 EST

PORTO, Portugal, February 10, 2023 (Newswire.com)
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The Jewish Community of Porto (CIP/CJP) has called on the European Union to instigate an impartial international investigation into “an antisemitic action that took place in Portugal using robbers, murderers and convicts who intended to defame the country’s strongest Jewish community, destroy Jewish leadership, halt the influx of Israeli citizens and end the law that granted Portuguese citizenship to Jews of Portuguese and Spanish origin. In March 2022, police raided the synagogue and arrested its rabbi, and in September the High Court said that criminal indictments against the community were ‘based on nothing,’” says the community’s president, Gabriel Senderowicz. 

Deborah Elijah, president of Keren Hayesod Portugal, explains that the basis for the Soviet-style antisemitism was “primarily the use of criminals and the press to defame the most important Jewish communities, to associate them with immoral businesses and then to try to link the rabbis for fictitious corruption. Weak communities linked to existing powers were used to serve as propaganda, like a musical instrument, as my father was forced to play the violin in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.”

A community council member for legal affairs, attorney David Garrett, says that the EU investigation is necessary. “If the anonymous, slanderous complaints were not made by convicts at the request of state agents; if the attempt to eliminate the first signer of a petition to the parliament was authored by someone who chose his target at random; if there is no relationship between the professional burglars who stole the server from a community lawyer [in Porto] and the computers of the president of SIRESP [in Lisbon] – so everything was nothing more than a miraculous coincidence and the community should not remain alarmed. If, on the contrary, the investigation concludes that state agents used criminals and all the press against a religious and cultural organization [the Jewish community of Porto], then we can say that they wanted mostly to destroy a Jewish nascent elite, and that the aim was not merely to initiate proceedings against suspects for the practice of illegalities. Against these, legal means of obtaining evidence would be used, the police would not be used as an instrument, much less whether they would use burglars, murderers and manufacturers of anonymous complaints.”

Source: The Jewish Community of Porto

Press Release
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Aug 30, 2022

PORTO, Portugal, August 30, 2022 (Newswire.com)
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The Jewish Community of Porto filed a complaint to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office alleging an antisemitic conspiracy against the wealthy members of the Portuguese Jewish community and the strongest Jewish organization in Portugal – harming the financial interests of the European Union. The complaint was submitted with the assistance of lawyers from Portugal, the USA and Israel and the European Jewish Association (EJA).

The entire complaint has been bound into a book under the title “The First Major Antisemitic Conspiracy of the 21st Century”, which can be downloaded for free: http://firstmajorconspiracy.com

According to the Jewish Community of Porto, “A group of people among the Portuguese elites united executive, legislative, judiciary and media powers in a violent antisemitic conspiracy. The objectives of the conspiracy were to destroy the Sephardic Law against a backdrop of terror, so that no one could come forward to defend that law; to reject politically the large influx of Israeli citizens with an interest in Portuguese nationality; and to produce a ‘criminal lawsuit’ based on anonymous denunciations that aim to destroy the Jewish businessman Patrick Drahi, wealthy Jews of Portuguese origin and the Jewish Community of Porto.”

“The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has no legal legitimacy to investigate cases of antisemitism, but in this case, there are some signs of corruption on the part of ruling elites and this harms all citizens of Europe,” says the President of the Jewish Community in Porto, Gabriel Senderowicz.

In a scathing 113-page complaint submitted last week to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), the Jewish Community of Porto states that “conspirators used a criminal organization dedicated to nocturnal raids on private homes and law offices of people supposedly connected to Patrick Drahi, and also used false accusations of drug trafficking and fraud, and ‘anonymous’ sources who have already been convicted in court for defamation of members and friends of the Jewish Community of Porto.”

The complaint mentions the destructive role of some politicians, influencers, and also journalists from several newspapers and TV stations in Portugal.

“Week after week, entire families were subject to libellous exposure in the newspapers, and slander on television, all based on anonymous denunciations and anonymous sources. No one escaped this type of Inquisition-style ‘purification,’” reads the complaint. 

“‘Operation Open Door’, which was presented to the world as the sale of passports by a rabbinate who acted for money, is after all a ‘Palestinian case’ that attacks Jewish Israelis, wealthy Jews and strong Jewish institutes connected with Portugal,” the complaints concludes.

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Source: The Jewish Community of Porto