Europe

Police in France are investigating two separate assaults on Jewish teenagers in the Paris area during the last week as possible hate crimes, The Algemeiner reported on Monday. The first incident occurred last Tuesday in Sarcelles, a suburb of Paris with a sizable Jewish community. A young schoolgirl wearing the...

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Scotland Yard has opened a criminal investigation into allegations of anti-Semitic hate crime in the Labour Party, the Guardian reported Friday. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said it “appears there may have been a crime committed.” The police said in a statement that special officers had spent two months assessing...

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Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, provided Denmark and Sweden with the information to stop the attempted assassination of the leader of the Danish branch of an Iranian opposition group, an Israeli official confirmed Wednesday. “The Mossad’s efforts have led to thwarting Iranian terrorism in France, Belgium, Austria, Germany and now Sweden and...

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On October 29, Israeli non-governmental humanitarian aid organization IsraAID received the German Chancellor’s Integration Award in recognition of its work with Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan refugees in Germany. IsraAID’s team in Germany was granted the award at a Berlin ceremony in recognition of its Brückenbau (“Bridge Building”) project providing psychological support in...

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After saying that Denmark would take “further steps” in response to a foiled Iranian terror plot on its territory, Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen said that his country would recall its ambassador to Iran and push for new EU-wide sanctions against the Islamic Republic, Reuters reported Tuesday. Samuelsen made his remarks...

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A Danish police operation thwarted an Iranian plot to assassinate an opposition leader in the Scandinavian country. Finn Borch Andersen, Denmark’s intelligence chief, said that a Norwegian of Iranian descent was arrested on October 21 for acting as an accomplice with an unidentified Iranian intelligence agency “to act in Denmark”...

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