One hundred famous Norwegians, led by the country’s national football coach, have signed a petition demanding a cultural and academic boycott of Israel, accusing its educational institutions of “playing a key role in the occupation” and equating it with apartheid.
Prosecutors asked a Canadian court Tuesday to reject defense claims of ''abusive manipulation'' of evidence in seeking to extradite a Lebanese-Canadian national accused of bombing a Paris synagogue in 1980.
Parliamentarians and experts from 50 countries across the world who came together in Canada this week for the Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism released the the “Ottawa Protocol”, a document which represents global cooperation in the fight against anti-Semitism.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper suggested that his country recent failure to secure a seat on the UN Security Council can be blamed on the government's support for Israel in the face of growing anti-Israeli sentiment.
-A court in Creteil, near Paris, began on Monday the appeal trial of 17 people convicted in the 2006 kidnapping, torture and murder of Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old young man targeted because he was Jewish.
Four New York men were convicted of plotting to blow up synagogues and shoot down US military aircraft after a trial hinging on the testimony of a paid FBI informant, the federal prosecutor's office said.
