Europe
A course designed for high school teachers on the Israeli-Arab conflict now offers a better range of opinions after an immediate outcry that it was biased.
“No tolerance for any form of violence, physical or verbal. Football must be an occasion of celebration and communion, not for fighting or confrontation,” Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini tweeted.
Contracts signed by Switzerland, pro-Palestinian groups show Bern financing efforts to build cases against Israel at the International Criminal Court • Swiss Embassy in Tel Aviv: Activities not aimed at harming Israel but promoting respect for human rights, democracy, peaceful coexistence around the world.
Jewish media, Israeli politicians and community leaders paint a picture of a France where Jews feel unsafe and leaving in droves. Does a selection of Jewish residents think similarly?
Bishop Rafal Markowski of the Polish Catholic Church said the church “will never tolerate signs of contempt for members of any nation, including the Jewish people.”
Irish BDS and LGBTQ activists accuse Israel of “pinkwashing,” and call on Ireland’s Eurovision contestant to drop out of the finals in Tel Aviv.
The Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam, which consists of the National Holocaust Museum, dismissed criticism that four pictures were censored, saying they were left out because they do not portray Dutch Jews, who are the focus of the exhibition.
Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler, chief rabbi of Chabad in Poland, will host some 100 Diaspora Jewish families of ghetto survivors to celebrate the Jewish festival of redemption.
The cathedral’s irreplaceable artworks depicting the history of the Jews in France can teach a great deal about fortitude in France and beyond.
An estimated 4,000 Jews lives in Poland, though experts suggest there may be tens of thousands more who, to this day, are either hiding their identities or are simply unaware of their family heritage.
Applying the law in such a way would open a “Pandora’s Box,” requiring complex labeling for items from more than 100 different area globally where there are territorial disputes.
The course of action regarding the film festival was labeled as “unequivocally anti-Semitic,” according to the Madrid-based rights group ACOM, which took the city council to court.
