WASHINGTON (JTA) — Driven to desperation by what he said have been the White House’s failures, Robert Levinson’s son traveled to Iran to seek information on his father’s whereabouts. “In late February, I traveled to Iran’s Kish Island in the Persian Gulf, where my father was last seen,” Dan Levinson said in an Op-Ed published…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Barack Obama decried the “rise of anti-Semitism” in his annual proclamation of May as Jewish American Heritage Month. “We cannot pay proper respect to the legacy of Jewish Americans without also reflecting on the rise of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in remembering the lessons of the Holocaust,…
As Donald Trump moves closer to clinching the Republican presidential nomination, he has offered lavish praise for Bernie Sanders, who faces increasingly slim chances in his battle with Hillary Clinton in the Democratic race. Trump has begun calling for Sanders to run as an independent if he does not win the Democratic nomination and said…
A Jewish journalist was barraged Thursday with anti-Semitic messages from Donald Trump supporters, including one of her face superimposed onto that of an Auschwitz prisoner, after she wrote a profile about the candidate’s wife. Julia Ioffe vented on Twitter about receiving anonymous phone calls playing Hitler speeches, and images showing a caricature of a Jew…
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…
