A Jewish group monitoring ant-Semitism in France expressed dismay to learn that Souad Merah, sister of Mohamed Merah, the Islamist terrorist who killed four Jews in Toulouse in 2012, escaped police surveillance and is suspected to have left France for Syria.
French extreme-right National Front party leader, Marine Le Pen, which could become the first party in France in Sunday’s European elections according to polls, hopes to send between 16 and 20 members to the next 751-member European Parliament compared to 3 in the outgoing assembly.
During a press briefing at the Ukraine Crisis Media Center, the Head of the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine, Josef Zissels spoke about the decrease in the manifestations of anti-Semitism in Ukraine over the recent years and Russia’s groundless propaganda which puts an emphasis on such manifestations.
Armed with ropes and long sticks, a group of teens in Germany’s capital headed out under the cover of night. Their goal: to tear down from lampposts the campaign posters of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party.
Some Palestinian journalists have been waging a campaign against their Israeli colleagues, demanding they be banned from entering Palestinian territories.
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski met earlier this week in Jerusalem with the families of the five Israeli victims of the Burgas bus bombing and said his country was making progress in hunting down the terrorists responsible for the July 2012 terrorist attack .
Legislation would increase haredi participation in the public sector; in first quarter of 2014, male haredi employment stood at 44.5%, compared to the national average of 81 percent.
After US calls for prompt and transparent investigation into Nakba Day deaths recorded on video, Israel's foreign minister attacks world's hypocrisy; says fingers should be pointed at Syria and Gaza, not Israel.
Jewish groups in Spain have called for a judicial investigation over thousands of anti-Semitic messages posted on Twitter after Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team beat Real Madrid in the EuroLeague final last Sunday.
The first public Holocaust education center in Romania opened Sunday in Sighet in the pre-war childhood home of Nobel Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel.
