“The Maidan does not accept 'Black Hundred' slogans. And those who attempted to use them were quickly taken out of this space of freedom,” said the Head of the 'Batkivschina' party Political Council Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban defended a monument marking the Nazi-invasion of Hungary, deepening a conflict with the country’s largest Jewish group, which threatened to boycott Holocaust commemorations in protest.
The New York-based organization Jewish Survivors of Latvia has urged the Baltic country’s President Andris Berzins “to return without further delay the communal property that legitimately, legally, and morally belong to the Jewish community of Latvia”.
''I am confident that Fischer and Fed chief Janet Yellen will make a great team,'' US president says in statement; Fischer is credited with helping Israel safely navigate the shoals of the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld have called for a protest on Wednesday at a theatre in the western city of Nantes, where controversial comedian Dieudonne is due to perform the next day.
A Twitter account belonging to the Dutch branch of BDS, the anti-Israel movement ((‘Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions’) is using an image of Anne Frank dressed in a red keffiyeh in order to promote its political aims, Israel's daily Maariv reported.
