Tag: European Antisemitism
Groups urge removal of anti-Jewish definitions in Spanish dictionary
The Spanish Royal Academy (RAE) received a letter signed by more than 20 Jewish organizations from primarily Spanish-speaking countries calling for an update to the official Spanish dictionary to remove bigoted entries.
Examples of definitions the groups...
Top European human-rights judge exposed as a Jew-hater
The European Court of Human Rights, which has jurisdiction over more than 46 countries and whose rulings are legally binding on all 27 member states of the European Union, is facing calls to re-examine...
Antisemitism still haunts the European left
France’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin last week ordered the dissolution of a Catholic traditionalist association named “Civitas” following claims of antisemitism against one of its leaders. The individual in question was the essayist Pierre...
Investigation continues after French Jewish boy is threatened with death
In the French city of Lyon near the Cours Émile-Zola intersection on July 24 at around 5:30 p.m., three individuals assaulted an unidentified Jewish 13-year-old boy, shoving and pushing him against a wall. The...
The antisemitism that never went away
Antisemitism expresses itself in many forms, but few are as lethal or as persistent as the caricature of the hook-nosed Jew sitting on a pile of cash looking pleased with himself.
This kind of image...
‘The system has failed:’ Antisemitism flourishes in France
Five years ago, an 85-year-old survivor of the Holocaust, Mireille Knoll, was brutally murdered in her apartment in Paris by two intruders, one of whom was a neighbor she had known since his childhood.
Knoll’s murder...
British Labour Party leader under fire for campaign spot filmed in Germany
Jews in the United Kingdom and Germany are speaking out against a campaign ad from Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer, in which he is seen walking through the Memorial to the Murdered Jews...
The ‘Judensau,’ then and now
Two major news stories to hit the headlines in Germany this month focused rather strikingly on negative depictions of Jews in works of art, raising once more the question of whether these visual displays...
French election illustrates the poor choices facing European Jews
As far as most French Jews are concerned, they don’t have much of a choice in this week’s second round of their country’s presidential elections. Given that the alternative is Marine Le Pen of...
Denmark announces anti-Semitism action plan that boosts Holocaust education
Denmark announced earlier this month that it is launching an action plan to better tackle anti-Semitism in the country.
The country’s new plan includes 15 initiatives, five of which aim at increasing knowledge about the Holocaust and...