The Labour party will investigate after dozens of anti-Semitic messages were sent to non-Jewish MPs who have criticised party leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn, The Jewish Chronicle reported.
University of California President and former US secretary of homeland security director Janet Napolitano has already come out in favor of the proposed definition.
Israel is now mentioned on Air France’s in-flight map displays. The company responsible for providing passengers with electronic maps on the flights announced that it had added Israel to its computerized flight path screens, after sparking outrage last week by omitting it.
Wistrich went on the attack against what he saw as one of the most pernicious dogmas of Israel’s critics, firmly rejecting any comparisons between the Jewish state and European colonialists.
''The many thousands buried here have no descendants or relatives to stand up for the integrity and dignity of their graves precisely because of the Holocaust,'' says a Vilnius-based scholar.