UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova defended the Jewish historical links to Jerusalem as she addressed the World Jewish Congress (WJC) plenary assembly in New York.
Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States have surged by 34 percent in 2016 compared to 2015, and have jumped 86 percent in the first quarter of 2017, according to new data released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
Israeli President Rivlin has denounced French extreme-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen's recent comments denying France's responsibility in the deportation of Jewish citizens to the Nazi death camp as "uniquely disturbing."
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation designating a week of remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust. The White House released the proclamation on Monday, which marked Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, ahead of Trump’s planned speech at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The Jewish community of Rome on Tuesday boycotted the annual Liberation March, a public holiday in Italy, which marks tthe country’s liberation from German occupation and fascist rule at the end of WWII.
For the first time, a United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, addressed an international gathering of Jewish leaders, pledging pledging ‘’to be on the front lines in the fight against anti-Semitism.
One diplomatic official said that Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman’s rescheduled visit is a clear sign that relations with Ukraine have returned to normal.