The head of CRIF, the French Jewish umbrella representative group, Roger Cukierman, called on France to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel and urged French President Francois Hollande to make the fight against racism and anti-Semitism ‘’a national cause.’’
‘’Media reports of a rising tide of anti-Semitism in Ukraine as a result of the political upheaval. are false and have no basis in the reality on the ground across Ukraine,’’ said Vadim Rabinovich.
The World Jewish Congress hailed English soccer’s ruling body, the Football Association, for suspending and fining West Brom striker Nicolas Anelka for an alleged anti-Semitic gesture he made during a game late last year.
Rafi Schutz, the Foreign Ministry's deputy director general for Europe, told Ambassador Andor Nagy that Israel was also worried about Hungarian willingness to deal truthfully with its past.
Efforts are underway to prevent Hungarian extreme-right and anti-Semitic party Jobbik to hold next week a political assembly in a building that used to be a synagogue in the city of Esztergom.
Jewish groups condemned anti-Semitic comments made on Facebook by a Greek politician from the main opposition party who claimed that by lighting candles in a synagogue last year, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was preparing ‘’a new Jewish victory over Greece.’’
The World Jewish Congress today called on the Greek party Syriza to withdraw a candidate for a regional governorship who made anti-Semitic statements about Greece’s Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, and the country’s new public broadcasting channel NERIT.
