Europe
“Whoever acts against us, we will act against it. We will continue to maintain the status and national honor of the State of Israel,” said Foreign Minister Israel Katz.
“This is the Dreyfus trial of our era,” says Rabbi Menachem Margolin, chairman of the European Jewish Association.
“I do not wish to publish alongside the revisionist,” Dutch writer Arnon Grunberg said in his resignation letter.
“We cannot be silent, and we must not be afraid,” second gentleman Doug Emhoff said at a memorial ceremony marking a 1982 terror attack against a Jewish restaurant.
“We expressed our support for the defense of Israel against Iranian aggression and attacks by Iran-backed terrorist groups,” the officials from five countries said in a statement.
The move is “much too little, much too late,” says EJA chairman Rabbi Menachem Margolin.
The findings reflect the ongoing high volume of anti-Jewish hate since the Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7.
“A red line has been crossed which we will not accept,” European Jewish Association chairman tells JNS.
Foreign Minister Katz acted after Oslo’s hostile steps post-Oct. 7.
The move is in response to Oslo recognizing a Palestinian state and other anti-Israel actions.
“Herman Brusselmans doesn’t even try to disguise his antisemitism,” Ernest Herzog, the head of World Jewish Congress’s Combating Anti-Semitism, Intelligence and Security Division, told JNS.
The installation at at the Office of Papal Charities in Rome reflects a shared commitment to addressing global water scarcity.