According to Sky News, citing an “intelligence source,” terrorists from the Islamic State are plotting to attack a synagogue which also doubles as a school and community center in the Beyoglu neighborhood of Istanbul.
Footage has emerged on social media of a Muslim woman tearing up an Israeli flag at a memorial for the victims of the Brussels terror attack where mourners have placed flowers, candles and flags to show their sadness and solidarity.
The issue arose after a Conservative MP asked the prime minister whether he agreed that anti-Semetism was a problem that should be forcefully eliminated from both private and public organizations.
A special Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Buenos Aires, attended by more than 400 delegates and observers from 67 Jewish communities, on Wednesday voted unanimously to allow WJC President Ronald S. Lauder to stand for a third consecutive term as WJC president, as stipulated by the WJC’s constitution.
‘’Anyone who knows anything about our history knows that anti-Semitism is Europe's most pernicious disease. It is the red line that we must never, ever cross,’’ said First European Commission Vice-President Timmermans in a speech to the third Inter-Parliamentary Conference for Combating Anti-Semitism (ICCA) in Berlin.
Germany’s government and civil society together must fight anti-Semitism among refugees, Anti-Semitism in Germany, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.
The German news website Ruhrbarone first reported on Friday on the BDS event with the headline “Advertisement for Jewish Boycott on the Ruhr University.
