Europe

The restaurant of a popular chef in Portugal was vandalized by anti-Israel activists while he was participating in a culinary festival in Israel, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Saturday. Cantinho do Avillez, José Avillez’s restaurant in Porto, was splattered with red paint Friday night while Avillez was in Tel Aviv. The...

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A delegation of Israeli parliamentarians met with counterparts from the European Parliament and called for closer ties in a number of areas. The meeting took place on Thursday at the European Parliament in Brussels. Yesh Atid MK and former Science Minister Yaakov Peri, along with Kulanu MKs Eli Alalouf and...

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Kosovo police announced on Thursday the arrest of 19 suspects for their involvement in an Islamic State plot to attack the Israeli national soccer team, the Associated Press reported. Albanian security forces revealed last week that they had thwarted an attack on a World Cup qualifying match between Israel and Albania on November 12. The terror threat prompted officials...

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The Histadrut, by far the largest labor union in Israel, on Sunday urged a counterpart union in Germany to abandon its bid to boycott Israel, saying that such actions would harm both Israeli and Palestinian workers, Benjamin Weinthal of The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. After learning that the Oldenburg chapter of the Education...

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The number of British people who believe that Israel is a “key ally” of the United Kingdom has grown in the last year, as has the number that oppose boycotts of the Jewish state, a new survey from the Britain Israel Communications & Research Centre (BICOM) revealed. BICOM also found an increase in...

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The UK’s leading universities regulator has ruled in favor of a Jewish student’s complaint concerning harassment by pro-Palestinian activists at Sheffield Hallam University in the north of England. The regulator, called the Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA), cited the European Parliament’s Working Definition of Antisemitism in determining that material...

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