Italy: Politicians call on EU to establish anti-Semitism task force

Via JTA:

Italian politicians, from both the left wing and right wing of Parliament, asked the European Union to establish a task force on anti-Semitism following recent attacks on Jewish targets in Paris and Copenhagen.

The recent anti-Semitic attacks have “affected and upset” the two countries’ large Jewish communities, the politicians wrote in a letter sent last week to the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini.

But, they wrote, “every day and for years now anti-Semitic words and gestures, often violent, outrage Jewish citizens in many European capitals.”