Belgian authorities said Monday they don’t rule out terrorism as the motive in a deadly attack at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels and have elevated the case to the federal level, the prosecutor’s spokesperson said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo was the only European leader to call him following the deadly shooting at te Jewish Museum in Brussels in which four people, including two Israelis, died Saturday afternoon.
Around 2,000 people rallied Sunday evening in front of the Jewish Museum in Brussels where a gunman killed four people, including two Israelis, a French woman and a Belgian employee, in the worst anti-Semitic attack in several years in Belgium.
‘’With the rise of anti-Semitism and political extremism, the new European Parliament could become a very hostile place for Israel and the Jewish people unless we do something about it,’’ wrote the ECI.
The May 20 front page headline of ultra-conservative pro-government daily Yeni Akit, in which the owner of the Soma Coal Mine Company was criticized for having a Jewish son-in-law, has sparked outrage on social media, with many users denouncing “hate speech.”
Jewish associations in Spain have filed an official complaint after nearly 18,000 anti-Semitic messages were posted on Facebook and Twitter in response to Israeli basketball team Maccabi Tel Aviv's victory over Real Madrid last weekend.
When the Anti-Defamation League published its global anti-Semitism survey last week, Greece, the cradle of democracy, captured the ignominious title of most anti-Semitic country in Europe.
During a press briefing at the Ukraine Crisis Media Center, the Head of the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine, Josef Zissels spoke about the decrease in the manifestations of anti-Semitism in Ukraine over the recent years and Russia’s groundless propaganda which puts an emphasis on such manifestations.
Jewish groups in Spain have called for a judicial investigation over thousands of anti-Semitic messages posted on Twitter after Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team beat Real Madrid in the EuroLeague final last Sunday.
In the context of the release of sobering and worrying results of an unprecedented worldwide survey on anti-Semtic attitudes by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a European Jewish leader urged each of the 28 European Union countries to set up a special body under the supervision of the President or the Prime Minister to deal with anti-Semitism, on the model of the United States.
