The founder of French extreme-right National Front party Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was kicked out of the party for xenophobic and anti-Semitic comments, has given his backing to US Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump.
‘’European Jews must continue to benefit from the right to remain in Europe at their own choice,’’ says Rabbi Menachem General Director of the European Jewish Association (EJA) in a reaction to a call by a US Jewish leader to French Jews to have ‘‘orderly plans in place’’ to leave their country.
The co-leader of Oxford University’s Labour Club (OULC) has resigned after claiming that a large proportion of members have “some kind of problem with Jews”, The Jewish News reported.
Poland's president Andrzej Duda has threatened to strip an esteemed Polish-American scholar of a state honor in punishment for his work that exposes uncomfortable historical episodes of Polish anti-Semitism.
The head of an organisation which aims to relieve the suffering of refugees from Syria made an appeal to save the ancient synagogue of Aleppo from civil war in Syria.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met in Cairo with the leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations where they discussed a number of issues including Egyptian-US relations, Israeli-Egyptian relations, regional threats, especially those posed by terrorist organizations and their supporters and Iran after the signing of the nuclear agreement.
Jewish groups slammed Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz for welcoming the backing of an evangelical pastor who has made controversial comments about Jews.
