French Jews Sue Twitter for $50 Million over Anti-Semitic Tweets

Posted on: March 21st, 2013

Twitter is being sued for about $50 million in France for failing to honor a court ruling which ordered it to identify users who posted anti-Semitic hate speech. The Union of Jewish French Students, or UEJF by its French acronym, filed the lawsuit on Wednesday with a Paris correctional tribunal, according to the French news [...]

Top German Jewish leader blasts Gov’t’s Weak Stand on Neo-Nazis

Posted on: March 21st, 2013

Germany’s top Jewish leader has slammed the government’s decision not to join efforts to ban the country’s most powerful neo-Nazi party. “The decision of the Federal Government is disappointing and politically completely wrong,” Dieter Graumann, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said in a statement Wednesday. “They chose hesitation and procrastination over [...]

French Philosopher Barred from Libya Visit Because He is Jewish

Posted on: March 20th, 2013

The French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, who supported France’s military intervention in Libya, was barred from visiting there because he is Jewish. Levy, a celebrity in France, was supposed to join former French president Nicolas Sarkozy on a visit that began on Tuesday in Tripoli, according to a report on the news website Rue89. The website [...]

Scottish Council Vows to Boycott Israel

Posted on: March 20th, 2013

A county council in Scotland has expressed its support for boycotting Israel. Clackmananshire County Council, the smallest local authority in Scotland, passed a motion in which it resolved to “resist, insofar as legislative considerations permit, any action that gives political or economic support to the State of Israel.” The motion, passed last week without opposition [...]

European MDs Accuse US Pro-Circumcision Doctors of Bias

Posted on: March 19th, 2013

European MDs keep up their fight against circumcision. Despite universal acknowledgement it helps prevents disease, they charge that US pediatricians in favor of circumcision are “culturally biased.”

Greek Soccer Player Attacked for Nazi Salute (video)

Posted on: March 17th, 2013

The 20-year-old Katidis is pleading ignorance.

Bi-Partisan Letter to Erdogan: Anti-Zionism Comment Unacceptable

Posted on: March 15th, 2013

A phalanx of world leaders representing the US and the EU have condemned Erdogan's hostile remark about Zionism as outrageous, offensive and unacceptable.

Last Survivor of Plot to Kill Hitler Dies at 90

Posted on: March 13th, 2013

Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, who was a Nazi Germany army lieutenant volunteered to blew himself up along with Hitler, died at his Munich home as the age of 90. The suicide bomb plot never was carried out, but von Kleist later was part of a group that unsuccessfully tried to kill Hitler in July 1944. He [...]

Paris Thugs Threaten Jewish Teen with Merah-Style Murder

Posted on: March 13th, 2013

Three men who accosted a French Jewish teenager in a suburban Paris subway said they would do to him “what Mohammed Merah did.” According to a report on the incident by the National Bureau of Vigilance against Anti-Semitism, a non-governmental organization known locally by the French acronym BNVCA, the 17-year-old Kippa-clad male was threatened in [...]

Peres Tells EU Parliament, ‘Europe Has Divorced Its Past’

Posted on: March 12th, 2013

President Shimon Peres told the European Union Parliament Tuesday, “In the past thousand years, more Jews lived in Europe than in any other continent.  Alas, more Jews were murdered in Europe in the last hundred years than in the preceding two thousand years.” The first Israeli president to address the current arrangement of the EU [...]

Hamas Re-Working Its Image to Pressing US to Remove Terror Label

Posted on: March 12th, 2013

Hamas is trying to re-work its image as a terrorist organization to convince the United States and the European Union remove it from the list of sponsors of terrorism. The campaign comes at the same time that pressure is growing on the EU to add Hizbullah to the list of terrorist organizations. The Egypt Independent [...]

European Union Officials to Tour Jewish Sites in Samaria

Posted on: March 12th, 2013

European Union officials from Austria, Belgium and Turkey are scheduled to visit Ariel University, in Central Samaria, and will meet with Shomron Jewish leaders on Tuesday. International leaders rarely visited Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria until recently. The Shomron Regional Council has successfully attracted foreign journalists and European officials to see for themselves Jewish [...]

Sour Sound of Music: Vienna Philharmonic’s Nazi Past

Posted on: March 12th, 2013

The Vienna Philharmonic had low level Nazi Party members, but also officials with the SS, one of whom turned over more than a dozen orchestra members, at least five of whom perished in Nazi concentration camps. After the war, that Nazi official become the orchestra's executive director.

German, Turkish Agents Bust Iranian Nuclear Smuggling Network

Posted on: March 11th, 2013

The network coordinated hundreds of smuggling operations of nuclear equipment from India and Germany to Iran.

French City Honors Murderer of Israeli Minister

Posted on: March 11th, 2013

Al-Rimawi was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Bulgaria Commemorates 70 Years of Saving Its Jews

Posted on: March 10th, 2013

Unlike most other Nazi allies or Nazi -occupied countries, Bulgaria saved its entire Jewish population from deportation to concentration camps.

Holland ‘Recommends’ Yesha Products with ‘Made in Israel’ Label

Posted on: March 8th, 2013

The Dutch government has advised business owners to refrain from labeling products from the Golan Heights, Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem as “Made in Israel.” In a circular written by the Dutch Foreign Ministry and published on Wednesday on the website of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, stores are advised but not required to [...]

What Sanctions? Iran Gas Exports to Europe at $7 Billion

Posted on: March 7th, 2013

Pakistan intends to complete a gas pipeline from Iran despite U.S. opposition.

Toulouse Killer’s Mother: He was Good and Kind

Posted on: March 7th, 2013

The man who gunned down a rabbi and three other Jews at a school in Toulouse last year really was “good and kind kid,” his mother told France 3 television. Mohammed Merah also had killed three French soldiers before he went on a rampage in Toulouse, killing his victims at point-blank range. Mohammed Merah’s mother [...]

French School to Muslims and Jews: Let Them Eat Pork!

Posted on: March 6th, 2013

A French public school has stopped offering alternatives to pork in its cafeteria for its Jewish and Muslim pupils, and official said their solution is to be vegetarians. The alternative meats were removed last week to lower the overhead of running the cafeteria of the elementary school of Arveyres, a small town near Bordeaux in [...]