The Anti-Defamation League asked Bulgaria’s president to “publicly renounce” anti-Semitic statements recently made by a prominent member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party. In a letter, the ADL told President Petar Stoyanov that it was “deeply concerned” by the statements, which accused the Bulgarian government of “selling the country to Jews and Gypsies” and claimed that the country is being “ruled by Jews.” The ADL reminded Stoyanov that it had honored Bulgaria in February for the government’s efforts to save Jews during World War II.
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