‘Death to IDF’ chants at UK festival shock local Jews
The anti-Israel incitement at the Glastonbury music festival in the United Kingdom on Saturday continues to reverberate in British Jewish circles, whose leaders have passionately condemned the instigators and the BBC for airing thousands chanting “Death...
Columnist at Belgian news channel fired for defending Israel
On June 16, a debate took place on a program of the LN24 French-speaking channel, a day after a pro-Palestinian demonstration in the center of Brussels.
The panel of commentators included Alain Kupchik, director of the Institute...
Disillusioned, UN envoy to Gaza quits
Sigrid Kaag, the United Nations’ envoy to Gaza and Israeli-Palestinian peace process point person, announced her resignation on Friday, in an interview where she expressed hopelessness and criticized her own organization, as well as...
Global Jewish population grew by just under a million from 2010 to 2020, Pew...
The worldwide Jewish population grew by 870,000 in the decade from 2010 to 2020, according to the Pew Research Center’s global religion survey released on Monday.
The analysis of worldwide religious trends looked at self-reported religious belief,...
France sued for decades of back rent on Baghdad embassy owned by displaced Iraqi...
The descendants of two Jewish Iraqi brothers are suing the French government for $22 million in back rent and an additional $11 million in damages, claiming that Paris’s embassy in Baghdad was once their...
Right-wing historian elected as Polish president
Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian and key promoter of legislation that restricts speech about Polish complicity in the Holocaust, won that country’s presidential election on Sunday, according to the national electoral commission.
Last month, Nawrocki...
Greta Thunberg joins flotilla to ‘break illegal siege of Gaza’
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg will set sail to the Gaza Strip on Sunday in an attempt to “break Israel’s illegal siege of Gaza,” the Hamas-linked Freedom Flotilla Coalition has announced.
Liam Cunningham, the Irish...
Barcelona city council again votes to end ties with Israel, Tel Aviv
Barcelona's city council voted on Friday to cut ties with Israel and suspend its friendship agreement with the city of Tel Aviv over the country's recent military actions against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The...
Spanish PM asks EU to sanction Israel over ‘illegal invasion’ of Gaza
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez asked European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to increase pressure on Israel to halt its “illegal invasion” of the Gaza Strip, speaking during a meeting in Brussels on...
French textbooks found light on contemporary antisemitism
French textbooks detail Jewish history but provide superficial coverage of both the collaborationist Vichy regime during the Holocaust and contemporary antisemitism in France, a study published on Tuesday found.
While Jewish history, Israel, the Holocaust...