The United Kingdom, Portugal, Australia and Canada followed through on their pledges to recognize an independent Palestinian state on Sunday, teeing up a tense week in New York as the United Nations General Assembly gets underway. France, Belgium and other countries are expected to follow suit during the convening, which comes nearly two years into […]
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The Palestinian Authority has arrested a key suspect in a deadly antisemitic terror attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris in 1982, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Friday. The Palestinian suspect, Hicham Harb, 70, was arrested in the West Bank for allegedly orchestrating the Aug. 9, 1982, terror attack on Chez Jo Goldenberg in which […]
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BERLIN — An antisemitic sign in a shop window in a northern German town has gone viral. Now, even Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid is threatening to sue the shopkeeper in Flensburg “for every cent he owns.” On Wednesday, passersby in the town of Flensburg spotted a sign in the window of a used bookstore […]
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Multi-platinum pop star Billie Eilish, Oscar-nominated actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Florence Pugh, and Jewish comedian Amelia Dimoldenberg were among the famous names who appeared at or promoted a sold-out Wednesday benefit concert for Gaza in the United Kingdom. The four-hour “Together For Palestine” concert in Wembley, organized by superstar music producer Brian Eno, took place […]
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Three synagogues in Halifax, Nova Scotia, were defaced with antisemitic graffiti over the weekend, following a contentious period in the Canadian city over an athletic match that included the Israeli team. Beth Israel Synagogue and a building associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch of the Maritimes had the phrase “Jews did 9/11” written on them with spray […]
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A major European cosmetics firm has vowed to reexamine its Nazi-era history amid revelations that it benefited from gruesome human experiments in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust. Weleda, founded in 1921 in Germany by a Swiss parent company, claimed that its skin cream could protect German soldiers from frostbite. To prove the claim, […]
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On a recent Shabbat morning, we experienced something unforgettable in our synagogue. Days earlier, a beloved member of our community had been stabbed in the Ottawa “Kosher Loblaws” for one reason only: because she is Jewish. I write to tell you what she taught us all. She came to shul on Shabbat — the first […]
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BUENOS AIRES — The mayor of Buenos Aires is moving to punish an elementary school teacher who posted a video of himself unfurling a Palestinian flag and asking his students to applaud “for the teachers in Gaza and the children of Palestine.” The city is opening disciplinary proceedings against Federico Puy, a left-wing activist and teachers […]
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Canada is “evaluating” its relationship with Israel following the country’s strikes on Hamas leadership in Qatar, Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand said on Wednesday. “We are evaluating the relationship with Israel,” Anand told reporters when asked if Canada would follow the lead of the European Commission, which announced plans Wednesday to seek sanctions against Israel. […]
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A British lawmaker, Shockat Adam, is drawing outcry after he referred to the Israeli army’s “blood-soaked tentacles” during an address in Parliament on Wednesday. The comment by Adam, a Malawi-born businessman and optometrist who is an independent, came as the British Parliament discussed Israel’s strikes on Hamas leadership in the Qatari capital of Doha and […]
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