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Irish singer Sarah McTernan. Credit: Screenshot.

Irish pro-Israel groups condemn BDS boycott of Eurovision song contest

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Several leading Irish pro-Israel groups and leaders have signed an open letter condemning attempts by BDS groups and Irish LGBTQ activists to pressure the country’s Eurovision song contest contestant, Sarah McTernan, to boycott this year’s...
St. Anthony's Shrine in Kochcikade, Sri Lanka, one of several sites attacked in coordinated bombing attacks on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Israeli in Sri Lanka describes ‘total shock’ after bombings

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More than 200 people were are reported killed and hundreds injured in a coordinated series of bombing attacks on multiple churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Sunday. The attacks occurred as worshipers were...
A rabbi examines damage to the Torat Chaim yeshivah, the largest yeshivah in Moscow, following an arson attack just hours prior to the Passover holiday on April 19, 2019. Courtesy: Torah Chaim.

Jewish leaders condemn pre-Passover arson attack on Moscow’s largest yeshivah

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Following an arson and defacement attack on the biggest yeshivah in Moscow, Jewish organizations expressed their belief that Russian officials would succeed in bringing the perpetrators to justice and protecting the Jewish community. “Over the next two...
The Notre Dame Cathedral fire, April 15, 2019. Credit: Screenshot.

Jihadis celebrate Notre Dame Cathedral fire, dub it a punishment, a good omen

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Jihadis celebrated the destruction of large parts of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in a devastating fire on April 15. Reactions by jihadis on social media refer to the cathedral as a symbol...
French far-right essayist Alain Soral arrives at the Paris courthouse on March 12, 2015, for his trial for posting a picture on the internet of him taken in Berlin in front of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, while gesturing the "quenelle", a gesture viewed as anti-Semitic. The gesture, invented by French controversial comic Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, is viewed as antisemitic. (EJP)

French far-right activist jailed for Holocaust denial

French far-right activist and essayist Alain Soral, 60, was sentenced on Monday by a Paris court to a year in prison for denying the Holocaust. Soral was convicted by the court for publishing on his...
European Union flags in front of the European Commission building in Brussels. Credit: Amio Cajander via Wikimedia Commons.

EU criticizes Israeli plans for housing units in ‘occupied’ West Bank

In a statement, the European Union denounced Israeli “plans for more than 4,600 new housing units for settlers in the occupied West Bank, including the legalization of an illegal outpost.” The plans were announced last...
Chelsea owner and Israeli billionaire Roman Abramovich, 2018. Credit: Chelsea FC.

English football (soccer) club aims to eradicate anti-Semitism

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Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich never stops fighting anti-Semitism with everything he’s got, both on the pitch and on the street. What started as a limited campaign in January took a life on its own....
U.S. President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at United Nations headquarters in New York on Sept. 26, 2018. Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO.

Trump says Netanyahu victory is ‘good for peace’

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With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set to form another governing coalition, winning re-election on Tuesday, world leaders began to offer their congratulations. U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday morning that while the results have...
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Chinese Twitter accounts suspended for allegedly trying to affect Israel election

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Twitter has suspended dozens of Hebrew-language accounts operated by the Church of Almighty God (CAG)—a Christian group banned in China that believes Jesus has been reincarnated as a Chinese female now residing in Queens,...
View of Cádiz, Spain, Dec. 9, 2015. Credit: Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons.

Spanish judge rules city’s cancellation of Israeli festival due to BDS unconstitutional

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A Spanish judge recently ruled that a city’s cancellation of an Israeli film festival due to its support of the BDS movement violates the country’s constitution. The city council in the port town of Cádiz,...