Four South Africans with links to Isis, including twin brothers, have been arrested for planning attacks on Jewish institutions and on the US Embassy in Pretoria.
''The goal of our activities in fighting anti-Semitism is to allow Jews to live in Europe without fear,'' said the EU coordinator on combating anti-Semitism, Katharina von Schnurbein, during a discussion in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, on the issue of anti-Semitism in Europe.
British Labour part leader Jeremy Corbyn expressed some regret for having described members of terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah as “friends,” as he appeared at the House of Commons’ Home Affairs Select Committee of inquiry into anti-Semitism.
Both the European Jewish Congress (EJC) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called on European leaders to condemn the speech by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to the European Parliament in which he claimed that Israeli rabbis called to poison Palestinian water and that ‘’global terrorism will disappear once the occupation ends.’’
Rabbi Menachem Margolin, head of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE), which represents over 800 Rabbis across the continent, said Sunday that Jews across Europe are deeply worried that Brexit will lead to an increase in anti-Semitism across the Europe.
The internet is ''our most important battleground'' against radicalisation, said European Commissioner for Interior Affairs, Dimitris Avramopoulos, as the EU Commission presented propositions to support Member States in preventing and countering violent radicalisation leading to terrorism.
