Ambassador Walid Obeidat was recalled shortly after the site was closed to Muslim worshipers in the aftermath of the terrorist shooting attack against Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick.
Serbia' President Tomislav Nikolic was urged to apologize for a controversial remark he made during a ceremony in Belgrade to commemorate the Holocaust and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
While last week the Zionist Camp (the united list of Labour and Hatnuah) was ahead of the Likud by two seats in the polls, this week, the party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party reached the top spot in a Panels Research poll taken for The Jerusalem Post and its Hebrew sister newspaper, Ma’ariv Sof Hashavua.
Nick Clegg, leader of the British Liberal Democrat Party condemned as “crass and insensitive” party member David Ward whose used the word “genocide” to describe Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians in a message issued on Holocaust Memorial Day.
An extreme-right anti-Semitic group has called for a demonstration in London’s Stamford Hill in March to protest against the “Jewification of Great Britain”.
After her role in the television mini-series “Holocaust” in 1978 and four years later in ‘Sophie’s Choice’ for which she won her first Oscar for Best Actress that catapulted her into stardom, American actress Meryl Streep has continued to deepen her interest in the Holocaust subject.
The best-selling tabloid newspaper in Germany, BILD, has criticized last week’s visit to Iran by Claudia Roth, Vice President of the German Parliament, who, it wrote, ‘’ met with a Holocaust denier shortly before Holocaust Remembrance Day.’’
Alberto Nisman, the special prosecutor whose mysterious death set off a political firestorm in Argentina, was buried in a Jewish cemetery on the outskirts of Buenos Aires near several of the victims who died in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in the Argentinian capital.
