Responses from Jewish community come after Poland summoned the US envoy in Warsaw over article written by FBI director James Comey which touched on Poland's alleged responsibility for the Holocaust.
Pope Francis spoke of the troubling anti-Semitic trends in Europe today, 70 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp from the Nazi regime, during a meeting with European rabbis at the Vatican on Monday.
Hundreds of people, many waving Israeli flags, marched in central Prague Sunday to protest the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe.Hundreds of people, many waving Israeli flags, marched in central Prague Sunday to protest the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe.
The President of the European Parliament urged Europeans to fight the ''demons'' of racism and anti-Semitism that still haunt Europe in a speech at a ceremony marking the liberation of Germany's Buchenwald concentration camp 70 years ago.
French National Front leader Marine LePen said she would seek disciplinary action against her father after the 86-year-old exreme-right party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen Jean-Marie Le Pen last week reiterated a past comment that Nazi gas chambers were a ''detail of history''.
Ronald Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) said Sunday he was concerned about the increasing popularity of Hungary's extreme-right Jobbik party, particularly among young voters.
A Brussels-based European Jewish umbrella organisation has launched a campaign which calls on Europeans to wear a kippah, the traditional Jewish skullcap, and other Jewish symbols to fight rising anti-Semitism on the continent.