Europe
In a query to Jonas Gahr Støre, a lawmaker questioned Jumana Manna’s role in renovating a government building that was damaged by a terrorist.
The statue in Portugal was daubed with neo-Nazi slogans, while the words “free Palestine” were painted on the Christian symbol in Belgium.
“Sport has been weaponized by antisemites and we must use sport to combat it,” Dagmar Gavorníková, president of Maccabi Europe, told JNS.
In a letter to the government, Tory MPs cited rising campus harassment of Jews while authorities crack down on rhetoric loathed by the left.
Italian officers kept protesters away from the Winter Olympics torch relay event in Rome, where demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and carried signs.
Mike O’hara has retracted the claim that the local Jewish community backed the exclusion of Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters.
Following a meeting with Netanyahu in Jerusalem, the European leader said his country “will stand by your side in friendship.”
A Swedish-led series of surveys found traditional indexes miss Jew-hatred expressed through anti-Zionist language, contradicting earlier research.
Remigijus Žemaitaitis charged journalists and local Jews with treating the destruction of Palestinian schools as “another pastime.”
Calling Turkey “the greatest threat,” Athens reveals deployment plan.
“There’s a hunt here for anyone who publicly expresses positive views about Israel,” says Danish-Israeli journalist Yotam Konfino.
The school has around 500 Jewish students.
