When asked if “Jews have too much influence in the world,” 52% of Syrians said yes, while 53% of Iraqis agreed with the statement. Nearly 60% of Afghans said Jews wield too much influence.
Seventeen French intellectuals, including Alain Finkielkraut, Pascal Bruckner and Michel Onfray, have signed a call published in daily Le Figaro for ''all light to be made'' on the death of Sarah Halimi, an 66-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman found dead at the foot of his building in the Belleville district of Paris.
The recent rise in anti-Semitism across the EU requires more and stronger action, the European Parliament said in a resolution adopted at its plenary session in Brussels.
"Unfortunately, Tariq Ramadan has not been able to reach Italy because of health reasons and therefore in the afternoon he will not be physically present at the presentation of the book ‘The Muslim and Agnostic’, as scheduled in the Erickson Center in Trento."
A British teenager who is the grandson of Holocaust survivors has described how he was beaten and abused by Muslim classmates at a leading school in Berlin because he was Jewish, The Sunday Times reported.
A Jewish section of a cemetery in Rome was desecrated. Unidentified individuals damaged dozens of gravestones and memorials in both the Catholic and Jewish sections of the Verano cemetery.
Vienna follows the UK and Israel towards adopting a universal definition of the age-old phenomenon. Move comes week after NGO reports record levels of antisemitism in the country.
Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States have surged by 34 percent in 2016 compared to 2015, and have jumped 86 percent in the first quarter of 2017, according to new data released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
