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“It hurts to see the city so damaged … its commercial activities is on its knees,” said the mayor of Venice Luigi Brugnaro.
“Anti-Semitism is central to a wider debate about the kind of country we want to be,” it said. “To ignore it because Brexit looms larger is to declare that anti-Jewish prejudice is a price worth paying for a Labour government.”
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in a letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings that the program showed maps that place Nazi concentration camps within the borders of modern-day Poland.
“The habit of persecuting Jews is beginning to be reborn. Brothers and sisters: This is neither human nor Christian; the Jews are our brothers and sisters, and must not be persecuted! Understood?”
“I am focused on British Jewry and the impact in our country,” said Yosef David, a social worker for a large Jewish charity.
It was the first time in the 70-year history of the German Parliament a committee chairman has been voted out.
“Circumstances surrounding the labeling requirement in the specific facts presented to the court are suggestive of anti-Israel bias,” said U.S. State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus.
“The weaponization of E.U. consumer protection law will complicate finding an agreement between Israelis and Palestinians, which can only succeed in the diplomatic—not the judicial—arena,” said Daniel Schwammenthal, director of the American Jewish Committee’s Transatlantic Institute.
“The winery is proud of its contribution to combating this decision and intends to continue the struggle,” CEO of Psagot Winery Yaakov Berg tells JNS.
In the locker room at the Mcfit Freiburg gym, a man allegedly tore off the head covering of Samuel Kantorovych, 19, threatened to beat him, called him a “dirty Jew” and shouted “Free Palestine” before he spat on it and tossed it into the garbage.
The “Sciesopoli Ebraica–Children’s home of Selvino” museum tells the remarkable story of some 800 Jewish orphans who were sheltered after the Holocaust in the Alpine town of Selvino before ultimately immigrating to Mandatory Palestine.
The latest figures are the highest recorded since the council collected aggregated data in 2006.
