Nick Clegg, leader of the British Liberal Democrat Party condemned as “crass and insensitive” party member David Ward whose used the word “genocide” to describe Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians in a message issued on Holocaust Memorial Day.
An extreme-right anti-Semitic group has called for a demonstration in London’s Stamford Hill in March to protest against the “Jewification of Great Britain”.
The best-selling tabloid newspaper in Germany, BILD, has criticized last week’s visit to Iran by Claudia Roth, Vice President of the German Parliament, who, it wrote, ‘’ met with a Holocaust denier shortly before Holocaust Remembrance Day.’’
Jewish organizations in Belgium on Wednesday condemned as ‘’outrageous’’ remarks made be the head of the regional Brussels government, Rudi Vervoort, who compared a measure to deprive citizenship of those convicted of acts of terrorism to the Nazi regime.
A Jewish couple in Sweden is fighting for the right to educate their children according to their religious belief, as the international is marking International Holocaust Memorial Day.
European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans said ‘’we have the moral and political duty to bring about a situation as soon as possible where not one Jew in Europe feels the urge to leave Europe because he or she sees no future fo them on this continent’, in an address to a memorial ceremony at the EU Jewish building in Brussels for the 17 victims of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.
Israel urged Argentine authorities to carry on with the work of prosecutor Alberto Nisman who was found dead in his Buenos Aires flat after having alleged a cover-up in the investigation of Iran over the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre which killed 85 and wounded 200.
European Union Foreign Ministers meet Monday in Brussels for talks scheduled to focus on terror threats in Europe in the wake of the deadly attacks in Paris and jihadi terror plot in Belgium.
