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Police line/caution tape placed by Danish police (WPCOM/Heb)
May 15, 2019, 3:56 pm
Suspected assailant in stabbing of Jewish woman in Sweden is arrested in Denmark
Motivation unclear despite Israel’s president linking it to antisemitism saying it “reminds us we cannot rely on fading memories of the Holocaust to keep today’s communities safe”
By JTA
Viktor Orban
November 30, 2018, 10:53 am
Hungary pledges £2.6 million to fight antisemitism in Europe
Announcement comes after talks between the government and the Association of United Hungarian Jewish Congregation
By JTA
Two Orthodox Jews look at Jerusalem's Old City walls illuminated by the colours of the French national flag in solidarity with France after attacks in Paris, in Jerusalem, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
November 23, 2018, 12:56 pm
Support for Israel rises among European Jewish leaders, survey finds
Report by the American based JDC finds that 68 percent of leaders from 28 countries backed Israel
George Soros
October 24, 2018, 6:28 pm
Dutch public broadcaster calls George Soros ‘a Jew with tentacles’
Host of topical debate causes controversy with allegedly antisemitic remarks which are condemned by European Jewish leaders
By JTA
Dayan Israel Jacob Lichtenstein speaking at the Rabbinical Council of Europe gathering in Vienna.
October 24, 2018, 10:17 am
Top London Charedi rabbi wants to embrace technology ‘in a kosher way’
Dayan Israel Jacob Lichtenstein urges European counterparts to harness tech at a Rabbinical Council of Europe gathering in Vienna
Malmö Synagogue in Sweden is home to one of the country's small Jewish communities
August 29, 2018, 8:06 am
Swedish politician denies saying Jews have ‘impure spirits’
Local Malmo politician Muhammad Khorshid, who works to help integrate migrants, claims the offensive comments were from a fake account
By JTA
Rabbi Yanki Jacobs
June 18, 2018, 3:51 pm
Attacker cries ‘cancer Jews’ at Dutch chief rabbi’s son and family
Rabbi Yanki Jacobs, son of the Jewish leader in the Netherlands, was verbally accosted in Amsterdam over the weekend
By JTA
Frans Timmermans (front row, third from right) speaking at the Great Synagogue in Brussels, alongside European Jewish leaders
May 24, 2018, 4:10 pm
EU leader tells Europe’s Jews: ‘I will always be there for you’
First VP of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, stands by continents community while being awarded the Lord Jakobovits Prize for European Jewry
Reuven Rivlin with the Czec president Miloš Zeman during his visit to Czech Republic
December 8, 2017, 1:19 pm
Czech president says he may ‘sooner or later follow the U.S.’ with Jerusalem move
Milos Zeman says his country may formally move its embassy following Donald Trump's announcement this week
By JTA
Screenshot showing the Palestinian protester smashing up a kosher shop
December 7, 2017, 4:16 pm
Man holding Palestinian flag smashes windows of Amsterdam kosher restaurant
Anti-Israel demonstrator launches attack at HaCarmel restaurant, a day after President Trump's controversial recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital
By Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA)
Desecrated Jewish graves
September 21, 2017, 4:02 pm
Germany adopts international definition of anti-Semitism
Government formally votes for the International Alliance for Holocaust Remembrance's definition of Jew-hate
By JTA
Seventh fort barracks the Žaliakalnis district of Kaunas, Lithuania, used as concentration camp by the Nazis during their occupation of Lithuania. (Wikipedia/ Kaunofortas)
August 31, 2017, 3:36 pm
Lithuanian troops train at concentration camp where 5,000 Jews are buried
Soldiers pitch tents at the grounds of former Nazi camp in Kaunas the 'Seventh Fort' where mass Jewish graves lie
By Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA)
Protesters wave Palestinian flags and hold placards during a pro-Palestinian demonstration.
August 31, 2017, 3:10 pm
Chants about killing Jews heard at BDS rally in the Netherlands
Demonstrators at an anti-Israel protest in Rotterdam reportedly shouted anti-Semitic slogans in Arabic
By JTA
A screenshot of the video in which an effigy of an Orthodox Jew was burnt in Poland by Piotr Rybak
August 31, 2017, 2:59 pm
Poland’s ‘staggering lack of concern’ over anti-Semitism criticised
European Jewish Congress slams government for failing to act over 'the growth and normalisation' hatred towards Jews
By JTA
Kosher meat
August 18, 2017, 3:18 pm
Swiss to vote on banning import of kosher and halal meat
Social Democratic Party member's bill seeks to stop meat fit for Jews and Muslims from being brought into Switzerland
By JTA
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