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Yossi Lempkowicz

Yossi Lempkowicz

Yossi Lempkowicz is the Editor-in-Chief of European Jewish Press and Senior Media Advisor at the Europe Israel Press Association. A political science and diplomacy graduate, he is a passionate advocate for Israel, frequently appearing on radio, television, and in print to provide analysis and counter media bias. Discover his insights on European-Israeli relations, policies, and diplomacy.

Dutch Freedom Party (PVV) leader Geert Wilders speaks during a debate on the coalition agreement between D66, VVD, and CDA and final report at the House of Representatives in The Hague on February 3, 2026. Photo by Jeroen Jumelet/ANP/AFP via Getty Images.
World News
Dutch parliament finally approves ban of Muslim Brotherhood
The ban was initiated by the right-wing Party for Freedom of Geert Wilders.
Mar. 18, 2026
Yossi Lempkowicz
Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun speaks at the JNS Visionary Leadership Assembly in New York City on Sept. 28, 2025, sharing how Jewish identity guides his work as U.S. special envoy–designate to combat antisemitism. Credit: JNS.
Antisemitism
‘There can be no illusion that the Iranian regime’s target is any Jewish community’
Mar. 16, 2026
Yossi Lempkowicz
U.S. Ambassador in Belgium Bill White (R) speaks to the press next to the mayor of Liege Willy Demeyer (L) outside the synagogue in Liege, eastern Belgium, after a pre-dawn blast damaged the building in what prosecutors said was being investigated as a suspected "terrorist" crime on March 9, 2026. Photo by John Thys/ AFP via Getty Images)
Antisemitism
US ambassador denounces Liège synagogue bombing as antisemitic attack
Mar. 11, 2026
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High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affars and Security Policy Kaja Kallas attends the European Council meeting on June 26, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. Photo by Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images.
Israel News
Despite ceasefire, EU’s proposed Israel sanctions not off the table
While the Israel-Hamas ceasefire has “changed the context,” the sanctions threat will not be rescinded until there is “real and sustained change on the ground,” said the EU’s foreign affairs chief.
Oct. 21, 2025
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European Parliament President Roberta Metsola addresses an Oct. 7 memorial ceremony in Brussels on Oct. 16, 2025. Source: X.
Israel News
EU Parliament head: ‘I will never forget the aftermath of Oct. 7’
Terror must never be allowed to prevail, Roberta Metsola vows at memorial in Brussels.
Oct. 19, 2025
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Graffiti in Grenoble, France, reads "Goy Power" and "A slow and painful death to every member of the CRIF," October 2025. Source: European Jewish Press.
Antisemitism
Grenoble Jewish community targeted with graffiti and death threats
“Today, we hide our Jewish identity, no one wears a kippah anymore, we remove the mezuzah, we avoid being recognized,” says local CRIF head.
Oct. 19, 2025
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Addi Cherry, a survivor of Oct. 7, 2023, from Kibbutz Nahal Oz, show Belgian MP Denis Ducarme the names of the kibbutz members murdered in the massacre, October 2025. Credit: EJP.
Israel News
Belgian MP at Oct. 7 sites: ‘The trauma has been underestimated in Europe’
“What country would allow more than 1,200 of its citizens to be massacred on its soil without taking retaliatory measures?” Denis Ducarme asked.
Oct. 10, 2025
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European Jewish Association Chairman Rabbi Menachem Margolin (right) Tal Rabina and Juan Soto speak at a panel discussion on antisemitism in Madrid on May 12, 2025. Photo by Yoav Dudkevitch.
Jewish Life
‘Jews in Europe live under constant threat’
“Without responsibility in politics and media, we will only prepare for the next funeral,” said European Jewish Association chairman Rabbi Menachem Margolin.
Oct. 3, 2025
Yossi Lempkowicz
Mourners attend a reinterment ceremony at the Har Hamenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem for Ilan Halimi, a French Jew kidnapped and fatally tortured by a gang outside Paris the previous year, on Feb. 9, 2007. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi /Flash90.
World News
Olive tree in France planted in memory of Ilan Halimi chopped down
Honoring a young man who was murdered, it was cut down in the Parc des Senteurs in the city of Épinay-sur-Seine, a northern suburb of Paris.
Aug. 15, 2025
JNS Staff
A Brussels Airlines plane. Credit: European Jewish Press.
Israel News
Brussels Airlines baggage handlers ask airline not to return to Israel
Their union opposes working for carriers considering flights to and from the Jewish state, until the “genocide in Gaza and the ‘West Bank’ has stopped.”
Aug. 9, 2025
Yossi Lempkowicz
Mohammed Khatib, the E.U. coordinator for Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, calls for the destruction of Israel and the United States at the "March for Return and Liberation" organized in Brussels by Masar Badil, or the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, Oct. 29, 2022. Source: Masar Badil.
World News
Belgium revokes asylum status of European coordinator of Samidoun
“When you glorify the murder of young festival-goers and call it resistance, you have no place in a civilized democracy,” said Belgian Member of Parliament Michael Freilich.
Aug. 8, 2025
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