The World Jewish Congress has called on the president of the European Parliament to send an independent observer to watch the trial of three Greek human rights activists who spoke out against Greeces notorious anti-Semite and extreme-right lawyer and writer Konstantinos Plevris.
A new history textbook in Russia justifies the Soviet-era mass arrests and executions of the 1930s but its supporters say the book is filled with patriotism and love of the Motherland.
Holocaust-denying British historian David Irving accused Polish authorities of turning Auschwitz into a Disney-style tourist site, as he defended his own trip to a Nazi death camp.
Attackers threw a makeshift explosive device at a synagogue in the centre of the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek as the city's Jews were preparing to celebrate the Jewish New Year on Thursday.
Lithuania's Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius on Wednesday condemned an apparent neo-Nazi attack in which a pig's head was left at the entrance of a synagogue.
A letter containing bullets and death threats to Jews was sent to a synagogue in a northern Paris suburb, where an infamous transit camp for Jews was set up during World War II.
