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Now playing Next no comment WATCH: Far-right Polish MP expelled from parliament for extinguishing Hanukkah candles All major political forces quickly denounced the incident carried out by Grzegorz Braun, and said there would be no tolerance for anti-semitic and xenophobic behaviour in the Sejm, the Polish parliament. 12/12/2023
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Now playing Next Tech News Hate speech on social media platforms rising, new EU report finds The study discovered that women, people of African descent, Jewish and Roma people were the most targeted. 29/11/2023
Now playing Next world news Euroviews. How many times can we say 'never again' again? A comparison of our responses to recent conflicts should not suggest that there is a hierarchy of victims. Quite the contrary, the history of the EU has shown repeatedly that human rights protections benefit us all — they are not a zero-sum game, Holger Loewendorf writes. 29/11/2023