New agency would advise youth workers on effective ways to thwart neo-Nazis; announcement comes days after study that suggests many German schoolchildren use 'Jew' as a term of abuse and 20 percent of Germans are latently anti-Semitic.
Anti-Israeli hackers attacked official websites in the Jewish state's mainly Muslim ally Azerbaijan on Monday, the same day as several Israeli sites were also threatened.
A prestigious British university was on Monday investigating claims that a Jewish student was assaulted during a Nazi-themed drinking game while on a ski holiday in France.
The Conference of European Rabbis (CER) called on the government of Egypt to ensure the protection of religious rights after Egypt's foreign ministry advised that it would not be ''appropriate'' for Israeli pilgrims to make an annual visit to the tomb of a well known 19th-century Jewish mystic in the Nile Delta, as activists mobilized to block the pilgrimage route.
The top leader of Tunisia's governing Islamist party on Tuesday condemned anti-semitic slogans heard in a crowd that welcomed Ismail Haniya, Prime Minister of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, last week.
A white supremacist arrested after informing his wife that he planned to kill Jews and Blacks may have targeted Anti-Defamation League (ADL) national director Abraham Foxman, the FBI said.
Belgian police on Wednesday detained 15 members of a radical Salafist Islamic group after they harassed passers-by in the city of Antwerp and shouted anti-Western slogans, police said.
A synagogue in New Jersey was defaced with anti-Semitic symbols near where another synagogue was struck a few days earlier, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported this week.
A US official voiced outrage after an adviser to Egypt's military said that some protesters facing down troops in Cairo should be ''thrown into Hitler's incinerators.''
