Tag: European Anti-Semitism
Spain’s Jewish communities insist on investigation into neo-Nazi rally
The Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain (FCJE) called on the country’s hate-crimes public prosecutor to investigate anti-Semitic hate speech made during a demonstration in Madrid on Feb. 13 of more than 300 people...
Report: Decrease in anti-Semitic incidents in UK, though numbers remain high
A report released on Thursday shows a slight decrease in the number of anti-Semitic incidents in 2020 across the United Kingdom, even though the numbers still remain quite high.
These were the findings of the United Kingdom’s Jewish communal...
Jewish Agency head Herzog calls out to European leaders on rising anti-Semitism
Isaac Herzog, chairman of the executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel, has called on European leaders to take decisive measures in combating anti-Semitism and vehemently counter repeated attempts at creating an unsafe and...
Jewish groups welcome European handbook on anti-Semitism
European Jewish groups welcomed the publication of a handbook for the practical use of the Working Definition of Antisemitism of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) as a tool to fight against Jewish hatred...
Miss France 2021 runner-up faces anti-Semitic hate over Israeli father
Anti-Semitism in France reared its ugly head over the weekend after the runner-up in the Miss France 2021 beauty pageant revealed that her father was Israeli.
After April Benayoum, 21, revealed her Israeli ancestry, she...
Terrorist attacks stark reminder for European Jewry, loud alarm for general society
As Austrians were making the most of their last night in restaurants, cafes and bars on Nov. 2 before the onset of a new lockdown, a 20-year-old Islamic terrorist fired at passersby in Vienna’s...
Suddenly, Human Rights Watch discovers anti-Semitism
The drumbeat of anti-Semitism has grown louder and more assured over the last two decades. Yet it’s only with the resurgence of far right activism in the last five years or so that mainstream...
Far-right Polish lawmaker says pogroms were good for Jews, made them powerful
Jews benefited from the murderous pogroms against them in Europe and became more powerful because of the violence, said a far-right Polish lawmaker.
Janusz Korwin-Mikke—a former lawmaker in the European Parliament and leading member of...
Sanders’s snub of AIPAC, slam of Israel’s premier an outrage for many conference attendees
The general consensus at this year’s annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was that Democratic frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) decision to snub the event—a requisite stop for U.S....
In Paris, 250 European leaders, conference attendees to confront anti-Semitism in full force
Some 250 participants and European leaders gathered in Paris at the European Jewish Association’s (EJA) annual policy conference this week under the topic “Jews in Europe: United for a Better Future.”
The $11 million “European...