Venezuela's U.S. ambassador denied that Jews are being targeted by the government of President Hugo Chavez and justified Venezuela's growing friendship with Iran.
The Zionist Organization of America is calling on Jewish students not to apply to the University of California, Irvine because it does not condemn campus anti-Semitism.
The British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRITCUP) has attacked the singer Elton John for planning to give a concert in Israel later this year.
Swedish Jews are upset about comments made this week by the mayor of Malmo, who said anti-Semitism and Zionism were both forms of "unacceptable extremism," and urged local Jews to disassociate themselves from Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip.