U.K. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn denied Thursday that his party was facing an anti-Semitism crisis or had an anti-Semitism problem, following a political uproar and the suspension of two prominent party figures in as many days over comments deemed anti-Semitic and anti-Israel. “It’s not a crisis. There’s no crisis,” Corbyn was quoted by British media…
Italian police issued arrest warrants on Thursday for six people suspected of conspiring to join Islamic State, and court documents said three of them had been discussing possible attacks on the Vatican and the Israeli embassy in Rome. Four of the suspects – a couple living near Lake Como, a 23-year-old-man and a woman, all…
Claims that the new head of the British national student union is anti-Semitic are false and part of a “witch-hunt” and “Islamophobic campaign,” Jewish former student leaders wrote in a letter supporting Malia Bouattia. Bouattia, who is Muslim, was elected president of the National Union of Students last week but has faced criticism from some…
— Polish clergy and researchers will hold a seminar in Kielce about a historically significant pogrom in which locals killed Holocaust survivors in that city 70 years ago. Occurring amid an acrimonious debate in Poland on local complicity in the Holocaust and the attention it merits, the conference planned for July in Kielce, 110 miles south of Warsaw,…
Comcast Corp, the owner of NBCUniversal, said on Thursday it would buy Hollywood movie studio DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc for $3.8 billion to boost its family-friendly offerings and help it take on No. 1 player Walt Disney. Comcast’s acquisition of DreamWorks Animation will add to Universal’s film library major childrens’ franchises such as “Shrek” and…
Britain’s opposition Labour Party suspended former London mayor Ken Livingstone on Thursday in a row over anti-Semitism, as the party struggles with deep divisions since electing a hard-left leader last summer. Dozens of Labour lawmakers had demanded that leader Jeremy Corbyn suspend Livingstone – his ally and a party veteran – over remarks he made…
Israel formally expressed its opposition on Thursday to a French-proposed peace initiative, reaffirming its position that only direct talks with the Palestinians can resolve the decades-old conflict. A week ago, France said it would hold an international conference in Paris on May 30 in a bid to relaunch talks between Palestinians and Israelis by the…
JERUSALEM — Palestinians in Nablus attacked Israeli soldiers escorting a convoy of Jewish worshippers who entered the West Bank city to visit Joseph’s Tomb. The 26 busloads of worshippers arrived overnight Wednesday into Thursday in order to visit the purported burial place of the Jewish patriarch. The site is holy to Muslims, Christians and Jews….
Recently released photos of the battery switch of a Florida ship that capsized raise new questions about the disappearance of two teens last summer, a lawyer for one of the boys’ family said. In July, Jewish teen Perry Cohen and his friend Austin Stephanos, both 14 and from South Florida, disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean…
JTA — A vandal drew swastikas on public and private property in a Brooklyn neighborhood. The swastikas were drawn in white marker early Monday morning, the New York Post reported on Wednesday. They were found on garbage can lids, a residential gate, a traffic control box, and the door of a building in Marine Park,…
— Swastikas were spray-painted at a park and an elementary school in Rockville, Maryland. The swastikas were discovered on Sunday, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. A witness said he saw two white boys spray-painting the swastikas, according to the Post. Montgomery County police told the newspaper they contacted the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater…
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