Each publication of the newsletter of CRIF, the representative body of French Jewish community, bears a banner which reads: ‘’The aggravating circumstance of anti-Semitism is still not retained. Why this denial of anti-Semitism,’’ in reference to the murder of Sarah Halimi, a 66-year-old Jewish woman who was killed by her 27 year-old Muslim neighbor, Kobili Traore, an immigrant from Mali, who broke into her apartment on April 7.
A Sunday Times columnist in Ireland has been fired over anti-Semitic comments on Jewish women’s pay at the BBC. A spokesperson for the British newspaper said the columnist, Kevin Myers, would not be writing for the paper again.
“The comments in a column by Kevin Myers in today’s Irish edition of The Sunday Times were unacceptable and should not have been published. It has been taken down and we sincerely apologise for the remarks and the error of judgement that let to publication,’’ wrote Martin Ivens, editor of The Sunday Times in reference to an ant-Semitic column on BBC women's pay.
767 anti-Semitic incidents have been recorded in Britain in the first six months of 2017, a rise of 30% from the same period last year , according to the latest report published by the Community Security Trust (CST).
The Anti-Defamation League came down hard on left-wing Jewish Voice for Peace for their support for convicted terrorists and alienation of pro-Israel LGBT activists.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has welcomed a strong statement from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban acknowledging his country’s “sin” in failing to protect its Jews during World War II and vowing to guarantee the security of the Hungarian Jewish community.
French President Emmanuel Macron’s statement at a commemorating event in Paris that anti-Zionism is a renewed form of anti-Semitism was well received by the Jewish community worldwide.