UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova said that the UN body will work ''to fight intolerance and contemporary forms of anti-Semitism, including those which seek to delegitimize the State of Israel,'' in resonse to a letter from former Israeli Foreign Minister and leader of the Hatnuah Party Leader, Tzipi Livni.
Two Jewish brothers walking home from Yom Kippur services in Brooklyn were attacked by three men who uttered anti-Semitic slurs, the New York Daily News reported quoting police sources.
A 34-year-old lawyer was elected new president of CCOJB, the umbrella group of Jewish organisations in Belgium, a body which has been marked by internal strife.
Major Jewish groups expressed outrage after Unesco, the United Nations cultural body, approved a resolution that ignores the Jewish people’s ties with Jerusalem holy sites, the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.
Israel announced that it immediately freezes all its cooperation with Unesco, the United Nations organization for education and culture, following the vote by this organisation of a resolution denying any Jewish connection to the Temple Mount.
Israeli leaders over the political spectrum have strongly condemned the approval by Unesco, the United Nations educational, scientific, and cultural organisation, of a resolution which questions any Jewish connection to the Temple Mount and Western Wall in Jerusalem.
The Executive Committee of UNESCO, the Paris-based United Nations body in charge of education and culture, voted a Palestinian-initiated resolution which denies all connection between Jews and Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.
