CCOJB, the umbrella group of Jewish organisations in Belgium, has denounced an anti-Semitic incident in a public school in Brussels as it expressed a growing concern of the Jewish community about the repetition of such incidents.

Malia Bouattia, National Union of Student's first black Muslim woman president, was elected on the same day the Union argued against an amendment for campuses to commemorate the Holocaust.

Romanian watchdog group on anti-Semitism said it was worried by the mayoral candidacy of Marian Munteanu who said local Jews lied for money about the number of brethren killed in Holocaust.

Some at Student Senate meeting also reportedly question whether the Anti-Defamation League was qualified to educate about anti-Semitism.

The number of anti-Semitic incidents in Austria last year reached its highest level in years, according to a Jewish organisation in Vienna.

Swastikas made with scraps of metal were discovered in the Jewish section of a cemetery in Avignon, south-eastern France, earlier this week.

The Austrian Forum Against Anti-Semitism, which began monitoring anti-Semitic incidents in 2003, said 465 incidents were recorded during 2015.

Activists from the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement vandalized and tore up signs on the Paris subway announcing an exhibit about Israel at the Carroussel du Louvre in the French capital.

A young rabbi from Holland walking with his brother in law were victims of stone throwing as they walked in a Brussels park on their way to the synagogue Saturday afternoon, the Brussels police confirmed.