Trinity College Dublin is known for its strong ties to the Jewish state and its struggle against the BDS movement, but has agreed to host the conference on campus grounds nonetheless.
Despite calls by Jewish groups and politicians to the Dutch authorities to prohibit an annual conference ‘’Palestinians in Europe’’ organized in Rotterdam by a the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC), regarded by German intelligence sources as a support group of Hamas in Europe, the city Mayor and Justice Minister refused to block the event.
“The freedom to practice your religion, without anxiety or prejudice, is one of the fundamental tenets of our society and as Prime Minister I will defend your rights to practice your faith without fear,’’ said British Prime Minister Theresa May in her wishes to the British and international Jewish community for Pesach.
Despite assurances given by the Romanian Minister of Education to a Jewish association regarding the right of Jewish students to practice their religion during their studies, a Jewish university student in Timisoara complained that his request for vacation during the Passover holiday has been rejected.
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum and Remembrance Center in Jerusalem has invited White House spokesman Sean Spicer to visit the center’s website and learn about the Nazi extermination camps after he made controversial remarks on Hitler at a press briefing.
French presidential front-runner Emmanuel Macron declared that a unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state by France ‘’won't serve anyone's interests and would lead to regional instability.''
Belgium’s Jewish community protests plans by the country’s regional government to ban in 2019 ritual slaughter of animals without prior stunning, a measure that would mean that kosher meat would in future have to be imported.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly supported US President Donald Trump in his decision to carry out strikes against Syrian forces following the use of chemical weapons.
