President Francois Hollande vowed the state would protect French Jews with all its force as he led a ceremony Tuesday at a Jewish cemetery where hundreds of graves were vandalised.
''This is the front line between the free and civilized world,'' Bennett says atop a hill in Samaria, pointing out the proximity of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
One day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for massive aliyah (emigration to Israel) of European Jews, German Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed to ensure the safety of Jews in Germany.
The head of the French Jewish community, Roger Cukierman, said he was ‘’disgusted’’ by the ‘’shameful’’ comments made by a former foreign minister who claimed that French Prime Minister Manuel Valls ‘’is under Jewish influence.’’
''An attack on the Jewish community is an attack on Denmark,'' Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said Monday as she addressed the weekend’ deadly attacks in Copenhagen.
France’s leaders on Monday urged French Jews to stay in France as they dismissed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for Jews in Europe to return “home” to Israel due to anti-Semitism on the continent.
A recent parliamentary report said Britain must take urgent action to address a “disturbing rise” in anti-Semitism recorded last year, including providing public funds for security at synagogues, giving better education on the Holocaust and introducing a clearer definition of the term “anti-Semitism” that would reduce the prominence of hate crimes at public demonstrations against Israel.
''I am fed up of all these anti-Semitic acts, in their different forms that we saw on January 9 in France, yesterday in Copenhagen and today in Alsace,'' said Roger Cukierman, president of CRIF, the umbrella representative group of France’s Jewish organizations
