The leader of the extreme-right Greek Golden Dawn party, Nikolaos Michaloliakos, has made a racist slur against the Greek basketball player of Nigerian descent Giannis Antetokounmpo and described a former US senator as a ''fanatical Jew and Zionist but also a big and active antifascist activist''.
The Swiss parliament’s foreign affairs committee has called on Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter to cancel the bid to nominate Jean Ziegler–-a former Social Democratic MP known for his virulent anti-Israel positions - to serve as an adviser to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Derbent Rabbi Ovadya Isakov, who was seriously injured by an unidentified gunman at the end of July, has been discharged from a hospital in the Israeli town of Petah Tikva.