Two months after local elections were held across Ukraine, the residents of the small northern city of Konotop are expressing shock and dismay over the behavior of newly-chosen Mayor Artem Semenikhin of the neo-Nazi Svoboda party.
Ukraine’s Jews are responsible for the Euromaidan revolution that ousted their country’s pro-Russian president last year, a senior rebel leader told an audience at a Russian university last week.
Britain’s leading anti-Israel organization has had its bank accounts closed, after it was revealed it may have been “inadvertently” funding Palestinian terrorism.
“Despite promises to crack down on antisemitic crime, the number of antisemitic crimes charged in 2016 decreased drastically,” the British Campaign Against Antisemitism said on Saturday, with the release of its annual National Antisemitic Crime Audit.
A Jewish family was reportedly pelted with stones by a group of youths shouting “Jews” at the Kent seaside in England over the bank holiday weekend, according to Jewish neighborhood watch group Shomrim.
Amid a spate of controversies over alleged anti-Semitism by party members, leaders of the UK’s Labour Party have admitted the party has a serious problem and called upon colleagues to confront this danger to Labour’s “soul.”
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn faced criticism on Thursday after comments he made were construed as having compared Israel to the Islamic State terrorist organization.
Yet another member of the UK Labour Party has stirred up controversy with a series of virulently anti-Israel comments accusing the Jewish state of a litany of atrocities and calling for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel.
Police are investigating a suspected arson attack on a Jewish-owned restaurant.
Britain’s Chief Rabbi Efraim Mirvis has weighed in on the growing anti-Semitism scandal within the UK Labour Party, in a stinging oped on Jew-hatred emanating from the far-left.
