West Bromwich Albion's French striker Nicolas Anelka was criticized by a French government minister and Jewish groups for celebrating a goal in the English Premier League with a gesture, called a ‘’Quenelle’’ which is viewed as being anti-Semitic.
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls said he is looking for legal ways to ban controversial humorist Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, whose shows have repeatedly insulted the memory of Holocaust victims and could threaten public order.
‘’Anti-Semitism is like cancer. There are two things that are certain about this cancer of hate. We know that it is deadly and we know that if we don’t fight it it will spread,’’ said Michal Kaminski, Polish Member of the European Parliament.
A watchdog against anti-Semitism in Romania has urged the countr’s leadership not to promote the appointment of a judge at the Constitutional Court because, it says, he has espoused anti-Semitic views.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center slammed comments made by British rock star Roger Waters who in an interview with CounterPunch magazine lamented the “power” of “the Jewish lobby” and accused Israel of being an ‘’apartheid, racist, murdering regime’’, comparing it to Nazi Germany's genocide of European Jewry during WWII.
Jewish groups have criticized the recent removal of the ‘’Working Definition of Anti-Semitism’’ from the website of the Vienna-based Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), the European Union agency tasked with providing advice to the member states on fundamental rights of people living in the EU.
Anti-Semitic incidents in Australia rose 21 percent in the last year and are the second highest on record, says the Executive Council of Australian Jewry’s annual 'Report on Anti-Semitism in Australia'.
