A senior lawmaker of the Greek far-right party Golden Dawn made headlines again by suggesting during a session of a committee of the House of Representatives that he is a Holocaust denier
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski paid tribute to his country’s once-vibrant Jewish community in addressing the opening session of the annual American Jewish Committee (AJC) Global Forum in Washington Sunday night, as he sought to draw a distinction between legitimate criticism of the Jewish State and anti-Semitism amid a backdrop of growing anti-Jewish feeling in Europe.
The Federation of French-speaking Students in Belgium (FEF), a body boasting some 120,000 students in the country, has called for “a freezing of relations with Israeli universities.”
Alberto Nisman accuses Iran of establishing networks dating back to 1980s as he publishes 502-page indictment detailing Tehran’s ‘aggressive’ presence on the continent; Iranian defense minister among officials sought.
European Parliament President Martin Schulz has demanded a clarification in Belgian daily newspaper Metro which, his spokesperson said, misquoted him as saying that “Hungary wants to count the Jews.”
European Jewish Association Director General, Rabbi Menachem Margolin, again urged EU leaders to strengthen Europe's fight against anti-Semitism following the findings of the US State Department annual International Religious Freedom Report which concludes that 2012 brought ''a continued global increase in anti-Semitism.''
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle declared that “anti-Semitism has no place neither in Berlin, nor in Budapest, nor anywhere else in Europe or in the world,” in an address to the World Jewish Congress’ (WJC) Plenary Assembly in Budapest.
