Europe

A German university has cancelled a course on “The Social Situation of Young People in Palestine” that for the past decade has falsely presented Israel as a dehumanized society guilty of ethnic cleansing, genocide, torture, and stealing Palestinian organs. For at least a year, the University of Applied Sciences and Arts...

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A series of legal victories has given hope to pro-Israel activists in Spain, long a bastion of the anti-Israel BDS campaign, that public and governmental support is shifting towards their side, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported Tuesday. An Anti-Defamation League survey last year found that Spain had one the highest levels of anti-Semitism...

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The recent arrest of an Iranian cleric by authorities in Kosovo shed light on Tehran’s efforts to gain influence in the central European Muslim-majority nation, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported Thursday. Hasan Azari Bejandi was arrested earlier this week on charges of financing terrorism and money laundering through an organization...

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The European Union is looking into the use of Israeli anti-terror technologies to deal with a wave of Islamic State-inspired “lone wolf” terror attacks on the continent, a senior EU official told Reuters on Tuesday. Gilles de Kerchove, the European Union’s counter-terror coordinator, attended the IDF’s second annual Intelligence and Special...

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ISIS supporters have praised the terrorist who used his truck to kill 84 people in Nice, France last week, hailing the Palestinians for developing the car ramming method. “Killing by ramming using civilian cars and trucks is an idea born from the Maqdisi [Palestinian] mind, which has an innovative nature of...

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Israel’s experience in fighting terrorism can help Europe face its own threats, former Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor wrote in an op-ed (Google link) published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. Starting last September, Prosor wrote, Israel began facing “a new generation of terrorists radicalized on social media [that] has launched...

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