A representative of the leadership of the “Right Sector” went to Odessa from Kyiv immediately after unknown vandals drew swastikas and wrote “Death to the Kikes” on dozens of Odessa homes on the night of April 8.
An Austrian far-right politician who said that the EU was at risk of becoming ''a conglomerate of n*****s'' and compared Brussels to Nazi Germany, has pulled out of the European elections.
Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo did not mention Israel in his address to the annual dinner of CCOJB, the umbrella group of Jewish organisations in Belgium, in response to the President of CCOJB Maurice Sosnowski who denounced ''unbalanced criticism of Israel'' and said he was ''proud to be a Zionist as it is the case for the overwhelming majority of Belgian Jews.''
The Polish parliament, Sejm, has stated that shechita, the kosher slaughter of animals, is permitted in Poland if performed for the needs of Jewish communities while still forbidding the slaughter for economic and commercial purposes.
Leading Ukrainian Jews took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times slamming Russian President Vladimir Putin for maligning the treatment of Jews in Ukraine.
The situation of Jews in Ukraine was among the topics discussed by the members of the Executive Committee of the WJC on Monday and Tuesday in the French capital Paris.
