A leading member of Yemen's dwindling Jewish community was attacked with a knife in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday by a Muslim who accused him of witchcraft, the wounded man's son told AFP.
World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder raised concerns about the dangerous incitement by extremist parties against Jews and other minorities in certain European countries, during a meeting in Ne< York Thursday with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad expressed a wish to attend the London 2012 Olympics on Thursday, but claimed the British authorities would ‘have issues’ with his presence.
A group of suspected neo-Nazis attacked a booth distributing pro-Israel material during an otherwise peaceful "I like Israel" event, in the west German city of Siegen on Saturday.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) expressed alarm that Greece’s neo-Nazi party garnered enough votes in this week’s election to earn seats in Parliament, and urged the president of Greece to refuse to appoint any neo-Nazi party members to the cabinet.
Jewish leaders and politicians in Greece lashed out Wednesday at a neo-Nazi party which won seats in parliament elections on Sunday, as the country marked the anniversary of the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has denounced anti-Semitic diatribes of a respected Norwegian academic who linked Anders Behring Breivik, the anti-Muslim Norwegian terrorist who killed 77 people, mostly children, last year and Israel's Mossad.
