A special Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Buenos Aires, attended by more than 400 delegates and observers from 67 Jewish communities, on Wednesday voted unanimously to allow WJC President Ronald S. Lauder to stand for a third consecutive term as WJC president, as stipulated by the WJC’s constitution.
Republican and Democratic presidential front-runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are both to address the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the main pro-Israel organization in the US, in Washington next week.
‘’Anyone who knows anything about our history knows that anti-Semitism is Europe's most pernicious disease. It is the red line that we must never, ever cross,’’ said First European Commission Vice-President Timmermans in a speech to the third Inter-Parliamentary Conference for Combating Anti-Semitism (ICCA) in Berlin.
"We have made clear that local authorities and public bodies cannot adopt BDS policies aimed at Israel," Michael Gove says at anti-Semitism conference.
Germany’s government and civil society together must fight anti-Semitism among refugees, Anti-Semitism in Germany, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.
The European Union is not considering sanctions against Iran following last week’s ballistic missile tests by Tehran, said EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini.