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April Benayoum, 21, Miss Provence 2020 and runner-up in the Miss France 2021 beauty pageant. Source: Instagram.

Miss France 2021 runner-up faces anti-Semitic hate over Israeli father

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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...
A Jewish man waiting on the streets in Munich, Germany on May 5, 2018. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Terrorist attacks stark reminder for European Jewry, loud alarm for general society

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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...
Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Suddenly, Human Rights Watch discovers anti-Semitism

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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...
Polish lawmaker Janusz Korwin-Mikke. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Far-right Polish lawmaker says pogroms were good for Jews, made them powerful

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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...
AIPAC CEO Howard Kohr speaking at the annual AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., March 2, 2020. Credit: AIPAC.

Sanders’s snub of AIPAC, slam of Israel’s premier an outrage for many conference attendees

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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....
UNESCO assistant director-general Stefania Giannini speaks at the European Jewish Association’s (EJA) annual policy conference in Paris; seated is EJA chairman Rabbi Menachem Margolin, Feb. 24, 2020. Photo by Yoni Rykner.

In Paris, 250 European leaders, conference attendees to confront anti-Semitism in full force

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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...
Yair Lapid of the Blue and White Party talks to supporters at an election campaign event in Herzliya on Sept. 4, 2019. Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash90.

Lapid reprimands Belgian ambassador over anti-Semitic carnival in Aalst

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Blue and White Party No. 2 MK Yair Lapid said on Sunday that he had reprimanded Belgian Ambassador to Israel Olivier Belle regarding an anti-Semitic parade in Belgium over the weekend. “I had a long...
Irish MP Reada Cronin. Credit: Sinn Fein via Flickr.

Newly elected Sinn Féin member apologizes for anti-Israel tweets

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A newly elected member of the Irish Parliament has apologized for past anti-Semitic tweets. “Some old tweets, most from before joining Sinn Féin and entering politics, have come to my attention,” said Sinn Féin MP...
French President Emmanuel Macron in Jerusalem, Jan. 22, 2020. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Macron criticized by French magistrates for wanting trial for Sarah Halimi case

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Top judiciary officials in France criticized French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday after he urged for the anti-Semitic murderer of Sarah Halimi to be put on trial. Halimi, an Orthodox Jewish woman in her 60s, died on...
World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder at Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp for ceremonies marking the 70th year of its liberation by Allied forces, January 2015. Credit: European Jewish Press.

Auschwitz liberation ceremony draws world leaders, Holocaust survivors and their families

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On the hallowed grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Monday, Holocaust survivors and world leaders gathered to commemorate the 75 anniversary of the liberation of the camp, where a stark message about the growth of anti-Semitism...