Europe

The German department store KaDeWe apologized for removing Israeli wines from its shelves after facing a major backlash, the Associated Press reported Sunday. KaDeWe said on its Facebook page that the wines had been temporarily removed so the importer could relabel them in accordance with new European Union rules that require...

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Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens remarked that terrorism in Europe was no longer limited to Jews and law enforcement officials, but now affects targets of a different profile, including the general public, The Guardian reported on Sunday. Geens, the justice minister, said that the Paris attacks had shown that the...

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After a soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands was cancelled on Tuesday due to a bomb threat, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency said that his country should respond to terror like Israel does, Ynet reported on Wednesday. Hans-Georg Maassen, president of Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, observed in...

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A teacher in a Jewish school in Marseille, France was attacked and stabbed by three assailants, Reuters reported Wednesday. Marseilles prosecutor Brice Robin told Reuters that three people, one of them wearing an ISIS t-shirt, approached the teacher in the street before attacking him. Another of the assailants showed a picture on...

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A video produced by the office of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed that the United States created ISIS, and is therefore responsible for last week’s terror attacks in Paris, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The video was published on a Facebook page run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran’s extraterritorial militia. In stilted,...

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German officials cancelled a soccer match in Hannover between Germany and the Netherlands when they uncovered “concrete” information that the stadium was the target of a bomb threat, USA Today reported Tuesday. The cancellation of the game two hours before kickoff came as authorities across Europe are seeking suspects connected to the terror attacks in...

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