A Swedish tv reporter who wanted to test the attitudes of people towards Jews by walking in the streets of the city of Malmo while wearing a kippah and a Star of David necklace received direct anti-Semitic threats and fled for fear of serious violence.
The plea came from a number of Jewish communities in the Netherlands following an Islamist’s slaying on Jan. 9 of four Jews at a kosher supermarket near Paris.
French noted intellectual, philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Levy denounced “the renewed advance of this radical inhumanity, this total baseness that is anti-Semitism” and the “delirium of anti-Zionism” in a keynote speech Thursday to the first-ever meeting convened by the United Nations General Assembly on the topic of anti-Semitism two weeks after the recent bloody terror attacks in Paris.
Islamist gunman Amedy Coulibaly who killed four Jews in a hostage-taking in a kosher supermarket in Paris on January 9, had targeted a Jewish school in the French capital’s district of Montrouge where the terrorist shot dead a police officer two days earlier.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday laid a wreath at the kosher supermarket in Paris where an Islamist terrorist killed four Jewish men last week in a hostage standoff.