Tag: European Antisemitism
Neo-Nazis interrupt Yom Hashoah event hosted by Israeli ambassador to Italy
Neo-Nazis disrupted a virtual Yom Hashoah event on Wednesday hosted by Israel’s ambassador to Italy, posting swastikas on the screen for viewers to see.
Israeli Ambassador to Italy Dror Eydar shared a video of the hack on...
Police arrest man who assaulted pregnant Jewish woman outside London
Metropolitan Police in London arrested a man on Monday seen on video attacking a young Jewish woman last week in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Stamford Hill.
In the video, a man estimated to be...
Security overpowers knife-wielding man outside Jewish school in Marseille
Security forces outside of a Jewish day school in Marseille in southern France stopped an armed, would-be assailant who showed up at the school on Friday before going into a nearby kosher market.
According to...
Hamburg public prosecutor blames mental illness for attack on Jewish student
The American Jewish Committee is demanding the Hamburg public prosecutor’s office to reconsider its ruling that an anti-Semitic attack on a German Jewish student was due to mental illness.
Last October, a 26-year-old German Jewish student wearing...
Hate mail to French Jewish Parliament member: ‘Soon the camps again’
The Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation after a Jewish member of the National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament, received anti-Semitic hate mail, according to the European Jewish Congress.
Parliament member Yael Braun-Pivet published...
ADL report highlights European anti-Semitism
The Anti-Defamation League has released a new report highlighting the politicization of anti-Semitism in Europe and its harmful impact on Jews.
The report, published on Feb. 18, begins with highlighting the prominence of anti-Semitism in...
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...