Europe

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has thrown his support behind a landmark resolution passed in the German parliament on Friday, which deemed the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel “antisemitic.” In a tweet, the foreign secretary and a front runner in the race to succeed Theresa May as...

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The German Parliament on Friday became the first European country to pass a landmark resolution that designates the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel as anti-Semitic and cuts off funding to any organizations that “actively support” the movement. “The pattern of argument and methods of the BDS movement...

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Britain and the United States are on the same page regarding “the heightened threat” from Iran, the country’s Foreign Minister, Jeremy Hunt, said Thursday. Hunt wrote on social media that he had discussed Iran with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week in London and again in Brussels on...

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Romania’s Prime Minister Viorica Dancila has reiterated her commitment to relocate the country’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in a call with Israel’s Ambassador to Bucharest David Saranga, after she accused the Palestinian envoy of deceit. “My word is my word. I stand behind what I said in the past. There...

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Danish police have arrested a suspect in the brutal stabbing of a Swedish Jewish community leader in the city of Helsingborg on Tuesday. The assault, which is feared to have been motivated by anti-Semitism, has left the victim in critical condition. A Danish police spokesperson confirmed that authorities arrested the...

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Labour Against Antisemitism, a campaign by activists to force the party to address sickening levels of anti-Jewish hate, has submitted a report containing 15,000 online screenshots showing examples of alleged anti-Semitism in the organization. The dossier, submitted to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), contains “15,000 screenshots taken from...

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