World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has condemned the desecration of the Mount Carmel Jewish Cemetery in Philadelphia as a “despicable and cowardly act of hatred” and urged citizens and local authorities across the United States to be vigilant against all signs of anti-Semitism.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre expressed rage at the ruling by an investigating magistrate in Creteil, a Paris suburb, who rejected the anti-Semitic character of a December 2014 violent attack on a young Jewish couple, and the decision to close the case.
The anti-Israel Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) movement suffered a setback in Belgium after calls by several BDS-linked organisations for the country to cancell its participation in a European cooperation project which is led by an Israeli institution.
A solemn ceremony was conducted in Kaliningrad, Russia last week, commemorating the thousands of Jewish victims of the Baltic “Death march” and its aftermath in 1945.
''The war against Islamism is going to be a long one and the threat is still present,'' said Francis Kalifat at the 32nd annual political dinner of CRIF, the umbrella representative group of French Jewish institutions.