The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) welcomed the statement from designer John Galliano accepting responsibility for his behavior and apologizing for his anti-Semitic remarks.
While much of the fashion world remained quiet about top Dior designer John Galliano's alleged anti-Semitic attacks, Karl Lagerfeld said he was ''furious'' over the damage done to fashion's image.
John Galliano is to appear before a Paris court on allegations of anti-Semitism, prosecutors said Wednesday as the superstar designer apologized for a drunken tirade but denied the charges against him.
US-based Jewish rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Center has demanded music channel MTV Japan apologize for airing an interview with a rock band dressed in Nazi-style uniforms.
French fashion house Dior said Tuesday it had begun proceedings to sack chief designer John Galliano after a video surfaced showing him insulting cafe patrons and declaring ''I love Hitler''.
Fashion house Dior on Friday suspended John Galliano after police questioned its flamboyant star designer for allegedly assaulting a couple and using anti-Semitic insults in a Paris bar.
French police briefly detained British fashion designer John Galliano in Paris on Thursday evening for alleged assault and making anti-Semitic remarks, a police source told AFP on Friday.
Authorities of Iran have cancelled the status of “national heritage objects” for the graves of queen Ester and her uncle Mordechai thus living them without the government protection and provoke mass anti-Jewish student demonstrations which wish to ruin the graves.
Tunisia's transitional government on Thursday condemned verbal attacks on Jews by Muslims outside the Tunis synagogue last week and called on religious and civic leaders to denounce such actions.
