A Jewish group is outraged by Lithuania’s plans to convert a sports complex into a convention center at the site of a historic Jewish cemetery, reversing decades of advocacy to commemorate the memorial site. The Snipiskes Jewish Cemetery, currently buried beneath the Soviet-era Vilnius Sports Palace, has long been a source of contention between the […]
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U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Tuesday that Britain will join France in recognizing a Palestinian state in September at the United Nations General Assembly if Israel does not agree to a ceasefire with Hamas. Starmer, who is facing increasing pressure from Britons over his handling of the Israel-Hamas war, cited the “catastrophic failure of […]
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BERLIN – One of Germany’s most notorious postwar antisemitic agitators has died at 89. Horst Mahler, who founded the German left-wing terrorist group Red Army Faction in 1970 and later championed neo-Nazis, died in a Berlin hospital on Sunday, according to his attorney, Jan Dollwetzel. Dollwetzel confirmed a statement from the far-right party Die Heimat, […]
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Japan’s far-right Sanseito party emerged triumphant in the country’s latest parliamentary election this week, signaling the rise of a nationalist, anti-immigrant movement with a history of decrying “Jewish capital.” Sanseito, which flies a “Japanese First” banner explicitly inspired by President Donald Trump, gained 14 seats in the country’s upper house elections on Sunday — a […]
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President Emmanuel Macron says France plans to recognize a Palestinian state during his appearance at the United Nations’ General Assembly in September. The move is “consistent with [France’s] historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East,” Macron wrote in a post on X announcing his decision. The post was accompanied by […]
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Canada’s envoy for combating antisemitism is leaving her job early, partly out of exhaustion from “waking up every day to a fight.” Deborah Lyons had been serving as Canada’s special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting antisemitism since she took the job soon after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Her term was […]
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The Hamburg State Opera has announced plans for a new opera house, backed by a donation from a German billionaire whose family grew its fortune by collaborating with the Nazi regime. The flashy new home for the state opera is set to be built near the city’s waterfront and is expected to cost approximately 340 […]
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An official commemoration of the AMIA Jewish community center bombing in Buenos Aires took place in Congress this week for the first time, amid increased tensions with Iran, the country understood to have been behind the attack. The July 18, 1994, car bomb attack killed 85 people, injured over 300, and completely destroyed the AMIA […]
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Nearly six months into Donald Trump’s term as president, the United States remains without a special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, an ambassador-level role at the State Department known colloquially as the antisemitism czar. Trump announced his pick for the role, a Hasidic fixer named Yehuda Kaploun, in April and formally nominated him in […]
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When Israeli strikes hit Iran on June 13, it wasn’t only nuclear sites and senior Iranian commanders that were taken out: A covert army of bots meddling in British politics went dark, too. That’s according to Cyabra, a Tel Aviv-based disinformation detection company that uncovered the operation. For 16 days, the network — which began […]
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