In testimony before the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Israel, B’nai B’rith outlined the core principles for U.S.-E.U.-Israel cooperation on Middle East peace, including that the Palestinians must end their campaign for a unilateral declaration of independence, systematic incitement against Israel, and the demonization and delegitimization of the Jewish state.
Latvian justice minister Gaidis Berzins was forced to resign his position on Thursday, following his controversial claims that Holocaust restitution policy is biased as it places the interests of one minority over others.
Flemish sports minister Philippe Muyters this week joined the growing international demand for a minute’s silence to be held at this summer’s London 2012 Games to honour the 11 slain Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
Controversy over a hunger-striking Palestinian footballer imprisoned by Israel on terrorism charges came to a head as French footballing legend Eric Cantona branded Israel “racist”.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel has announced plans to reject a Hungarian award eight years after it was given to him, following recent “whitewashing” of the country’s fascist WWII associations.
The president of a Paris University launched an administrative investigation on Thursday into a Gaza question “of a polemic nature” set to students of the Bichat Hospital Faculty of Medicine, Agence France Presse reported.
The New York-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) welcomed the signing of an agreement between the Dutch government and the Jewish and Muslim communities of the Netherlands to protect religious freedom for kosher and halal slaughter while improving animal welfare.
