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The Action and Protection Foundation completed a regional project, funded by the International Visegrad Funds, with the participation of Hungarian, Polish and Slovakian Jewish organizations, aiming to counter antisemitism by improving school textbooks from a Jewish perspective.

In the spirit of freedom, the annual conference of the European Jewish Association (EJA) will be held in Budapest, Hungary, from 20-21 June 2021. The two-day conference will address the challenges of restrictions on kosher slaughter and circumcision and the growing political division.

On Sunday, February 20, a delegation of the Action and Protection League went to Israel to attend follow-up meetings with the leader of the Knesset Lobby against Antisemitism and BDS, MK Amichai Shikli.

On 26 January, 2022, our founder, Rabbi Slomo Koves, got invited to speak in front of the Knesset Lobby against Antisemitism and the BDS movement. The Lobby was chaired by MK Amichai Shikli (Yemina) and co-chaired by MK Gadi Yavarkan (Likud) and MK Sharen Hashkel (New Hope). Rabbi Koves presented the Action and Protection League’s ... Read more

EU competent authorities find the Hungarian model remarkable.   An international conference organised by the European Jewish Association (EJA) and the European Action and Protection League (APL) is now taking place in Krakow, November 8–9, in commemoration of the 83rd anniversary of the Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht). Besides rabbis and representatives of Jewish communities, ... Read more

Between 12-13 October, the Action and Protection League attended a conference in Brussels organised by our partner organisation, the European Jewish Association. The framework of the conference was combating antisemitism, and the first day program included the yearly meeting of Jewish leaders, where antisemitism and the means to fight it was discussed. On the second ... Read more

"Jews are exploiting Holocaust, run secret networks and will never be able to integrate into society". Disturbing findings unveiled in new Action and Protection League Europe-wide survey published ahead of European Jewish Association's major Jewish leaders meeting in Brussels.

Action and Protection Foundation annual report on antisemitic incidents in Hungary out now For six years, Action and Protection Foundation (APF) has tracked and analyzed all known antisemitic incidents and hate crimes in Hungary. The annual report, a result of this scientific monitoring activity, presents a summary of findings on the incidents that came to ... Read more

We believe time has now come to share our experiences and results with others. It was our cooperation with the Jewish communities of the Visegrád Group that inspired us to write the Action and Protection Foundation Best Practice Handbook but the information provided can be applied anywhere, with no geographical limitations. We would love if ... Read more

APF expands its reach to 28 countries with Hungarian government support Budapest, 6 November 2018 – At a Brussels conference on the situation of European Jewry, Rabbi Slomó Köves, founder of Action and Protection Foundation (APF), announced the establishment of the organization at a European level, to provide effective aid to combat rising European anti-Semitism. ... Read more

Budapest, 27 March 2014 – “Since students at our University are very likely to encounter hate crimes in their future careers, a course introducing the background prejudice is greatly needed here. It is important that they learn how to recognize, and how to deal with prejudice.”—Andrea Kozáry, professor of sociology at the Faculty of Law ... Read more

Action and Protection Foundation (TEV) welcomes the important changes of regulation dealing with hate speech. With its fourth amendment to the Fundamental Law the Parliament has declared that the practice of rights to freedom of speech cannot be directed at violating the dignity of communities. According to TEV, important changes have been brought even with ... Read more

Budapest, 5 February 2014 – Action and Protection Foundation initiated procedures for the dispersal, and official removal from registers of the political party Nemzeti Forradalmi Párt (Party for National Revolution), which is the official face of the neo-Nazi Magyar Hajnal Mozgalom (Hungarian Dawn Movement). At the same time, on grounds of the overtly racist campaign ... Read more