Leading members of Germany's main opposition party said Tuesday they no longer want Nobel laureate Gunter Grass to campaign for them due to uproar over his recent poem lambasting Israel.
British Prime Minister David Cameron sent his wishes to British Jews and Jews across the world for a the "very happy and peaceful Pesach", the holiday of Passover.
In a letter to David Cameron, the European Jewish Union and the European Jewish Parliament asked the British Prime Minister "to propose and actively pursue" the termination of EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton’s term of office "with immediate effect" following her controversial comments on last month's Toulouse killings.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the US Conference of Presidents called "correct and appropriate" the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) announcement that the Court has no jurisdiction over claims by representatives of the Palestinian Authority against Israel because "Palestine" does not qualify as a state, and thus is not under the jurisdiction of the ICC.
Former resistance fighter Lise London, the widow of Artur London who wrote "The Confession" about his 1951 Stalinist show trial, died on Saturday, aged 96, the French Communist party said Sunday.
Tunisia's religious affairs ministry and several political parties Tuesday denounced anti-Semitic slogans chanted at a weekend protest demanding the imposition of sharia, or Islamic law.
