According to the Swedish media, the country’s Foreign Minister Margot Wallström has called for an investigation to determine whether Israel was guilty of extrajudicial killings of Palestinians during recent violence.
An event commemorating the first anniversary of the murder of four Jews, Yoav Hattab, Yohan Cohen, Francois-Michel Saada and Philippe Braham, by an Islamist terrorist, Amedy Coulibaly, in a kosher supermarket in Paris will take place on January 9.
Egypt has sent a new ambassador to Israel, a move Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said will lead to a further strengthening of ties between Cairo and Jerusalem.
Current Egyptian Minister of Culture: ''There is nothing called ‘Jewish books in Egypt,’ the books scientifically should be classified as Arabic, Persian, Turkish, etc.”
French Jewish umbrella representative group CRIF denounced a photo exhibition in Paris which they say glorifies Palestinian terrorism and was opened with the assistance of the city.
MP John Mann, head of the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism, joined the nearly 2,800 gathered in Birmingham, two hours north of London last week, to celebrate the 35th birthday of Limmud Conference.
In order to deal with the problem of low attendance of legislators, the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, is considering adopting the Knesset’s’’MK attendance board.’’
In his Christmas message, Pope Francis urged Friday the world to unite to end atrocities by Islamist terrorists that he said were causing immense suffering in many countries, in a reference to the Islamic State group.
Turkey has expelled a senior Hamas official as a step towards an agreement to normalise relations with Israel but the deal reportedly remains some way from being finalised.
