The far-right nationalist party Swedish Democrats apologized Thursday for its past links to Naziism and antisemitism ahead of the country’s national elections next year. The public apology, which included a study commissioned by the party that found Nazi and antisemitic views were pervasive in its publications and functions throughout the 1980s and 1990s, underscores efforts […]
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BUENOS AIRES — An Argentine federal judge Thursday ordered that the 10 Iranian and Lebanese suspects accused in the deadly 1994 AMIA bombing be tried in absentia, allowing the case to move forward after decades of legal stagnation. The complaint, filed by the families of the victims of the bombing, asked Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas […]
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A German court overturned a ban Tuesday on a far-right German magazine that frequently espouses antisemitic and anti-immigrant rhetoric. In Tuesday’s decision, the German Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig ruled that while the magazine, Compact, frequently presents unconstitutional viewpoints, it does “not yet” present a threat to Germany. The initial ban on the incendiary magazine […]
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has expressed gratitude about Israel’s attacks on Iran’s nuclear program. “This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us,” Merz, who took office earlier this year, told the German broadcaster ZDF on Tuesday from Canada, where he is participating in the G7 summit of world leaders. There, he […]
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WASHINGTON – A decade ago, Israel’s government and the three major powers in Europe were diametrically opposed to Israel on how best to stop Iran from going nuclear. Britain, France and Germany all favored the Iran nuclear deal; Israel did its best to keep it from happening. Now, with Israel and Iran verging on all-out […]
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A meeting of leading European rabbis has been canceled in Sarajevo after high-profile appeals against their gathering. About 50 Jewish leaders were headed to the meeting of the Conference of European Rabbis, scheduled for next week at the Swissotel in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. But on Tuesday, the hotel notified the CER that […]
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French police detained a man originally from Gaza on Friday after a rabbi was attacked in a Paris suburb, capping a week of antisemitic incidents raising alarm among French Jews. Rabbi Elie Lemmel was sitting at a cafe in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine Friday when he said he was hit in the head by […]
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A canceled flight on his way to assume his new job might well have added urgency around one of Rabbi Axel Wahnish’s first big breakthroughs as Argentina’s ambassador to Israel: direct flights between Tel Aviv and Buenos Aires. Wahnish, the personal rabbi of Argentine President Javier Milei, was originally scheduled to depart from Buenos Aires […]
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Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian involved in Poland’s recent efforts to revise Holocaust history to minimize the role of local collaborators, has been elected president of Poland. Nawrocki eked out a narrow victory over Rafał Trzaskowski, Warsaw’s liberal-centrist mayor, in a runoff election on Sunday. His election marks a return to power for the Law […]
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Vandals covered three Jewish sites in Paris with green paint late Friday night, in an act that has unsettled French Jews. The paint covered walls of the Agoudas Hakehilos synagogue and the Tournelles synagogue as well as the Shoah Memorial for French victims of the Holocaust. The three sites are located within several blocks of […]
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