‘’Fighting anti-Semitism is a responsibility for the society at large and must not be left to the Jewish community,’’ says Katharina von Schnurbein, the EU Coordinator on Combating Anti-Semitism.
Around 11,000 Jews lived in Donetsk, the center of the current insurgency, prior to the outbreak of hostilities two years ago, but after two years of grueling conflict, just over 2,000 remain.
French controversial comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, who has been several times convicted for racist and anti-Semitic remarks, was barred from entering in Hong Kong where his two scheduled shows were cancelled.
Pro-Israel groups and the Jewish community in Spain slammed the Spanish foreign ministry for expressing “deep concern at the loss of many dozens of lives” of Palestinians as a result of Israel’s “use of force” in reaction to attacks against its citizens.
At Israel's embassy, Obama offers a deeper, less political, truly gallant explanation of the imperative democracies prescribe to protect Jewish peoples worldwide.
‘’It pains me that Jews again live in fear in >Europe today, are not safe to go to a synagogue or a Jewish school and that some condider leaving Europe for good because they feel not safe,’’ said European Parliament President Martin Schulz as he addressed Wednesday a ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the European institution.
France "will put all its strength to protect the Jews’’, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said at a ceremony in the Paris City Hall to mark the 20th anniversary of the asassination of the Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin.
Pro-Palestinian protesters rioted to disrupt a speech by Ami Ayalon, the former head of Israel’s Shin Bet secret service at a student society event in central London.
