Iranian president says possible to turn more than 3 decades of enmity with US into friendship if both sides make effort; Rouhani pours cold water on Syria peace talks as Kerry says plenty of ways for Iran to join them.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called on The Economist magazine to issue a full-throated apology for publishing an anti-Semitic editorial cartoon depicting US President Obama as hindered in his efforts to reach an agreement with Iran by ‘’the machinations of a United States Congress under the control of a nefarious Jewish lobby.’’
Washington's surprise at the UN inviting Iran to the Geneva II summit, and its insistence on Tehran accepting the Geneva communiqué, allowed the Obama administration a chance to look tough in public on Iran.
Vaad of Ukraine expresses its deep concern about the anti-Semitic attacks that took place in Kyiv in January: the attacks on a Yeshiva (a Jewish religious school) teacher and student who were leaving the Podil Rozenberg synagogue after prayer.