If peace Israeli-Palestinian peace talks fail, ‘’the blame will be put on Israel’’ and it would likely face ‘’increasing isolation,’’ the EU ambassador to Israel said, days after US Secretary of State John Kerry warned that boycotts and delegitimization would only expand without a peace deal.
As part of the protest and fight against revived anti-Semitism in Hungary, the Rabbinical Center of Europe has decided to hold its bi-annual General Assembly in Budapest in March.
Air France has become entangled in the debate on the controversial 'quenelle' salute after airline’s senior employees were spotted making the gesture, a reverse Nazi salute, which has been labeled anti-Semitic.
Jews around the world reacted with surprise and criticism to the fact that European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton omitted any mention of the Jewish victims in the statement she issued Monday on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in which she called to ‘’remain vigilant against the dangers of hate speech and redouble our commitment to prevent any form of intolerance.’’
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Israel at the end of February for bilateral talks with the Israeli government, her spokesman announced Friday.
US President Barack Obama said that if Congress sends a new sanctions bill against Iran ‘’I will veto it,’ in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday.
