The Foreign Ministry summoned Swedish ambassador to Israel Carl Magnus for reprimand on Wednesday evening after Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom called to investigate the Jewish state for the “execution” of Palestinian terrorists.
The chief rabbi of France, Rabbi Haim Corsia, on Tuesday rejected a call by the leader of Marseille’s Jewish community for Jews in the city to stop wearing kippot (skullcaps) to avoid being targeted by extremists.
The pension fund for the United Methodist Church has blocked five Israeli banks from its investment portfolio in what it describes as a broad review meant to weed out companies that profit from abuse of human rights.
Alain Ghozland, a French politician and city councilor in the heavily Jewish Parisian suburb of Créteil, was found dead in his home Tuesday morning, the French daily Metro News reported.
A Turkish teenager who stabbed a Jewish teacher with a machete on Monday in the southern French city of Marseille told police he was attacking in the name of the Islamic State (ISIS) group, a prosecutor said.
Anti-Semitic incidents almost doubled last year in Hackney, the area of north-east London which is home to Britain’s largest haredi community, according to police figures reported by the Jewish Chronicle (The JC).
H&M is at it again — they’ve made a scarf that looks remarkably like a tallit, or Jewish prayer shawl.
RAMAPO – Town police are investigating after two Ramapo villages and the town received an anti-Semitic letter by fax in recent weeks.
Lina Allan, a Palestinian-Jordanian activist who lives in Michigan, published a video in which she attempted to rebut the position of people who prohibit the stabbing of Jews by Palestinians.
AMSTERDAM — The Amsterdam home of a Jewish family was vandalized by assailants who shouted “Cancer Jews” and “Free Palestine.”