The anti-Semitic incidents in Eastern Ukraine are created by supporters of separatism, but the Ukrainian interim government has nothing to do with it. This was the statement by Ira Forman, the US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, at the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center, according to the Russian edition of Voices of America.
Pope Francis honored the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, kissing the hands of six survivors in an emotional ceremony at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, and prayed at Israel’s Victims of Acts of Terror Memorial.
Belgian authorities said Monday they don’t rule out terrorism as the motive in a deadly attack at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels and have elevated the case to the federal level, the prosecutor’s spokesperson said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo was the only European leader to call him following the deadly shooting at te Jewish Museum in Brussels in which four people, including two Israelis, died Saturday afternoon.
France’s extreme-right National Front looks set to gain a majority of France’s 74 seats in the European Parliament, with an exit poll handing it 25 percent of the vote in Sunday’s EU elections.
Around 2,000 people rallied Sunday evening in front of the Jewish Museum in Brussels where a gunman killed four people, including two Israelis, a French woman and a Belgian employee, in the worst anti-Semitic attack in several years in Belgium.
The President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz said the shooting at the Jewish museum in Brussels, in which four people died, was ‘’deeply shocking.’
The European Union has reportedly decided to stop importing poultry and eggs from the West Bank settlements in compliance with the EU’ s guidelines issued last year which bar European businesses and other entities from conducting trade or cooperating with Israeli organizations and companies operating beyond the Green Line.
Pope Francis will visit Israel on May 25-26, a visit which will mark an important milestone in the deepening relationship between the Catholic Church, Israel and the Jewish people.
