‘’European Jews must continue to benefit from the right to remain in Europe at their own choice,’’ says Rabbi Menachem General Director of the European Jewish Association (EJA) in a reaction to a call by a US Jewish leader to French Jews to have ‘‘orderly plans in place’’ to leave their country.
Danis Tanovic’s Smrt u Sarajevu (Death in Sarajevo), which is based on Bernard-Henri Levy’s 2014 award winning play Hotel Europa, is the winner of this year’s Silver Bear, the second most coveted prize of the Berlinale – the Berlin International Film Festival.
The governing Liberal party in Canada has backed a motion introduced this week by the opposition Conservative party that formally condemns and rejects the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.
Anti-Israel adverts have been plastered on trains across the London Underground in the wake of the campaign marking ‘’Israel Apartheid Week’’, in an “an act of vandalism” according to Transport for London, writes The Jewish News.
According to Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice President of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, anti-Semitism is on the rise in the United States.
The co-leader of Oxford University’s Labour Club (OULC) has resigned after claiming that a large proportion of members have “some kind of problem with Jews”, The Jewish News reported.
''Israel and Germany are two advanced countries, real societies, real science, real universities, real technology, real business sector, '' said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he addressed Tuesday the sixth Israel-Germany Government-to-Government meeting in Berlin.
