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The Metropolitan Police said it is acting on a dossier of information, consisting of more than 80 pages of anti-Semitic vitriol, provided by the Campaign Against Antisemitism to London police chief Cressida Dick.
Said the Israeli prime minister: “They very much want Israeli gas, they very much want Israeli technology, and they very much want Israel’s friendship. That’s a good sign.”
In the aftermath of an Iranian assassination attempt against an Iranian-Arab opposition figure on Danish soil, Denmark has called back its ambassador and called for new E.U. sanctions against Tehran.
Angela Merkel lost her mandate as the party’s leader, in large part due to handling of the refugee crisis, and will not seek the chairmanship at the party’s conference in December.
France’s Higher Education Minister Frédérique Vidal brought together key players in the fight against racism and anti-Semitism following the proliferation of tags, graffiti and anti-Semitic expressions in recent weeks in several institutions of higher education.
In honor of the 70th anniversary of Israel’s first diplomatic mission, Israel’s ambassador to Poland re-enacted the moment when the flag of Israel flew for the first time in Warsaw.
“For Jews across Europe, the stakes in the forthcoming European elections have rarely been higher,” said EJA chairman and founder Rabbi Menachem Margolin.
The U.S. State Department issued a travel warning on Sept. 28, cautioning tourists about a potential terrorist threat. The announcement came largely in response to an August attack at Amsterdam’s Central Station, in which two Americans were stabbed by a German Muslim extremist.
“It’s critical that Finland has a modern navy that is fit for purpose. The Baltic Sea has become a possible focal point for tension between East and West,” said Jussi Niinistö, Finland’s Defense Minister.
“That in 2018 an academically trained trade-union official and university researcher is spreading this anti-Semitic poison from the Middle Ages is unbelievable and unacceptable,” said Antwerp’s Forum of Jewish Organizations.
The archaeological work will continue into 2019, including annual tree-ring timing studies to verify the age of the wooden beams.
Members of the Jewish community in France have expressed their deep concern regarding the broadcast by French public-television Channel France 2 of a report on Gaza that contains a clear anti-Israeli bias.
