The mayor of a small Austrian town has resigned after telling a city council meeting that journalists who report on asylum seekers ‘’should be hanged like the Jews.’’
The Simon Wiesenthal Center slammed comments made by British rock star Roger Waters who in an interview with CounterPunch magazine lamented the “power” of “the Jewish lobby” and accused Israel of being an ‘’apartheid, racist, murdering regime’’, comparing it to Nazi Germany's genocide of European Jewry during WWII.
Representatives of Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority are ready to sign an historic agreement that will link the Red Sea to the Dead Sea by a pipeline.
The European Jewish Congress (EJC) Executive body expressed support for the actions undertaken by the Greek Government against the neo-Nazi party, the Golden Dawn, during a meeting in Athens with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.
Holland was ‘’irritated’’ by Israel’s decison not to allow a high tech security scanner paid by the Dutch government to be used for scanning goods moving from Gaza to the West Bank and from the West Bank to Gaza, a Dutch government spokesperson said Sunday.
Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, was appointed the Chairman of the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians (ICJP), an initiative of the World Jewish Congress, this week at a two-day meeting of the group’s Steering Committee in New York and Washington.
