Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi provoked outcry for defending WWII-era leader and Nazi ally Benito Mussolini for having “done some good” on the sidelines of a Milan event to coincide with International Holocaust Memorial Day Sunday.
The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the world rose worryingly, especially in Western Europe, according to a report by Information and Diaspora Minister Yuli Edelstein which he presented at Sunday's Israeli cabinet meeting.
In 2011, a French court ruled that the 51 year-old John Galliano, the then Paris-based Dior designer, had made “public insults based on origin, religious affiliation, race or ethnicity”.
Israel's Ambassador to Germany, Yaakov Hadas-Handelsman, slammed a German columnist for comparing the Gaza Strip to a concentration camp, denouncing growing left-wing anti-Semitism in the country.
The Obama administration on Tuesday strongly condemned remarks made by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi almost three years ago about Jews and urged him to repudiate what it called « unacceptable rhetoric. »
The Union of Jewish students in France (UEJF) took social networking site Twitter to court over demands it reveal the identities of its users who have tweeted anti-Semitic messages.
The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt have produced the worst anti-Semitic slurs in 2012, according to the annual list released by the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC).
