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Across Europe and around the world we are surrounded by the images of the Holocaust. Museums, memorials, resolutions, literature and movies, are meant to educate, stimulate reflection, memorialize the millions who were murdered, and serve as lasting reminders of the brutality and destructiveness of which humans are capable. But increasingly, the images that have defined the memory of the Holocaust for decades are being stripped of their original meanings and misused to communicate a very different message.

The 736-member European Parliament, the only directly-elected body of the European Union since 1979, started its first plenary session in Strasbourg this month with a busy agenda: the election of its new president, the presentation of the six-month Danish presidency of the EU, the financial crisis and worrying political developments in Hungary.

Mr. Yossi Lempkowicz - Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of the European Jewish Press (EJP) wrote exclusively for EJU readers.