Europe

The European Parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a report on Iran that condemned the Islamic Republic’s Holocaust denial, violent rhetoric towards Israel, and support for terrorism. One amendment to the report, which stated that the legislative body “strongly condemns the Iranian regime’s repeated calls for the destruction of Israel and...

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The UK Labour Party’s failure at effectively combating anti-Semitism within its ranks “has created what some have referred to as a ‘safe space’ for those with vile attitudes towards Jewish people, exacerbated by the Party’s demonstrable incompetence at dealing with members accused of antisemitism,” a prominent parliamentary committee stated in a report released...

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The Jewish owner of an Israeli-style restaurant in Munich was forced to close his eatery due to rising anti-Semitic pressures, Benjamin Weinthal reported Sunday in The Jerusalem Post. Florian Gleibs said he shuttered the Schmock Israeli restaurant after 16 years last week in response to growing agitation against the Jewish state in the...

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After Germany’s largest teachers’ union strongly denounced the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign as anti-Semitic, a branch of the union trashed copies of its September publication because it contained an article advocating in favor of anti-Israel boycotts, Benjamin Weinthal reported for The Jewish Chronicle on Monday. The Education and Science Workers’ Union (GEW) branch, located in the...

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The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), an umbrella body for 57 European, North American, and Central Asian nations in the security field, has chosen Prof. Gabi Weimann of the University of Haifa to plan and establish a new teaching and research framework concerning online terror. “Online incitement, radicalization, and...

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The umbrella organization of British Jews called on the Labour Party to immediately expel former London Mayor Ken Livingstone after he repeated debunked claims that Adolf Hitler supported Zionism, the latest anti-Semitic incident to have engulfed the party since Jeremy Corbyn took over as party leader last year. “Hitler’s persecution of the...

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