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Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. addressing the Focal Point Conference in New York City alongside OLAM CEO Dyonna Ginsburg, May 2024. Photo by Jesse Kornbluth/OLAM.

‘Death to IDF’ chants at UK festival shock local Jews

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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...
Alain Kupchik. Credit: Radio Judaica/YouTube.

Columnist at Belgian news channel fired for defending Israel

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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

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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...
A secular man with tattoos seen next to Orthodox Jewish men at the Western Wall, on May 21, 2013. Credit: Neal Badache/Flash90.

Global Jewish population grew by just under a million from 2010 to 2020, Pew...

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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...

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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...
Karol Nawrocki

Right-wing historian elected as Polish president

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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...
Climate activist Greta Thunberg (left) rallies on behalf of Palestinians outside the International Court of Justice at The Hague, Netherlands, on Jan. 26, 2024. Source: X/Greta Thunberg.

Greta Thunberg joins flotilla to ‘break illegal siege of Gaza’

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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, Spain. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Barcelona city council again votes to end ties with Israel, Tel Aviv

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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 Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is welcomed by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen before a bilateral meeting at commission headquarters in Brussels on May 28, 2025. Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images.

Spanish PM asks EU to sanction Israel over ‘illegal invasion’ of Gaza

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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 police walk above the peripherique circular road in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris, to take their positions after a gunman opened fire and took people hostage at the Hyper Cacher kosher grocery store on Jan. 9, 2015. Photo by Thomas Samson/AFP via Getty Images.

French textbooks found light on contemporary antisemitism

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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...