Throwing Molotov cocktails into a synagogue is always anti-Semitism, said Katharina von Schnurbein, the European Union Coordinator on Combating Anti-Semitism.
The Jewish community of Mexico criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comment supporting US President Donald Trump's plan to build a wall on he US-Mexico border.
‘’No Jew should be forced to leave Europe,’’ said Antonio Tajani, the newly elected President of the European Parliament, in a speech at the annual ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the parliament.
In the wake of a series of anti-Semitic attacks in London over the weekend, the city’s Mayor, Sadiq Khan, sought to reassure the Jewish community about its safety.
The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), the country’s foreign ministry, has denied requests from a Swiss resident and from NGO Monitor research institute to provide public information about Swiss government funding to the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat (the IHL Secretariat), a Ramallah-based framework that distributes 56% of its budget to NGOs that advocate for BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) campaigns against Israel.
Thousands of photos of people holding ‘’We remember’ or ‘I remember’’ signs in honor of the victims of the Holocaust are put on display on a giant screen at the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau from 24 until 26 January 2017, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day this Friday.
In a statement, the European Union said the announcement by the Israeli government on 24 January to build 2.500 settlement units across the West Bank, and the approval of building permits for 566 settlement units in East Jerusalem on 22 January ‘’further seriously undermine the prospects for a viable two-state solution.’’
The terrorists who attacked Brussels airport last year targeted Jews and passengers travelling to the United States, according to reports on the Belgian-led investigation. They were ‘’obsessed’’ with targeting Israeli passengers, the reports said.
Israeli journalists covering in the European Parliament in Brussels a conference on countering the BDS (Boycott,Divestment, Sanctions) movement were denied entrance to a pro-BDS gathering held at the same time in the building by Israeli radical activists.