The number of recorded anti-Semitic acts in French-speaking Switzerland increased by 28% in 2011 from the previous year, CICAD, a Geneva-based body that coordinates the fight against anti-Semitism and defamation, announced in its annual report.
The Israeli Embassy in Berlin, the German Football Federation and the Simon Wiesenthal Center have condemned the anti-Semitic insults and Nazi salutes aimed at Kaiserslautern’s Israeli striker Itay Shechter during a training session.
French extreme-right leader Marine Le Pen accused a top Socialist on Wednesday of using an ugly incident involving anti-Semitic youths as a weapon against her presidential prospects.
A top figure in France's Socialist party and his journalist partner were attacked by a crowd shouting anti-Jewish slogans and chanting support for the extreme-right National Front, they said Wednesday.
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan decried what he called Jewish control of the media and accused “Zionists” of trying to push America into war with Iran.
A German court quashed a British bishop's high-profile conviction for Holocaust denial for procedural reasons but said he may face a new trial on the same allegations.
The David Report says that while anti-Semitism is less of an issue for U.S. Jewish college students, negativity about Israel threatens to erode bipartisan support.
A Dutch university has decided to cancel''a conference due to be attended by a controversial Islamic scholar following protests from members of the Parliament and Jewish groups.
