Pro-Palestinian protesters rioted to disrupt a speech by Ami Ayalon, the former head of Israel’s Shin Bet secret service at a student society event in central London.

"Anti-Semitism is more pervasive than we imagine and that is why we must act intensively against it," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said./p>

2015 saw a 40% surge in violent anti-Semitism globally, according to a report presented Sunday at the Israeli weekly cabinet meeting.

As European Parliament President Martin Schulz is to host the annual EU Holocaust Remembrance day event in Brussels on Wednesdy, the European Coalition for Israel (ECI) launched an international ”Wear-A-Kippah” campaign in order to raise awareness about the current threat facing the Jewish communities in Europe.

British Jewish publisher and philanthropist Lord George Weidenfeld died at age 96.

In explaining the reasons for the existence of a terrorist threat in France, he noted “upheaval in the Arab world'' and and “the reality in certain neighborhoods in France.''

Expert in extremist ideologies pens in depth report on manifestations of anti-Semitism in Germany.

The International Fellowship of Christians and Jew, the leader in promoting Christian-Jewish unity, blasted the United Methodist Church decision to blacklist some Israeli banks as a desperate attack by a shrinking religious movement.

Pope Francis invoked the ‘’unbreakable bond’’ between Jews and Christians as he visited the Great Synagogue of Rome on Sunday.

At a meeting in Brussels on Monday, EU Foreign Ministers unanimously adopted conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process stating that all agreements between the State of Israel and the EU ‘’must unequivocally and explicity indicate their inapplicability to the territories occupied by Israel in 1967.’’