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Spanish PM calls for Israel ban after chaos at cycling

Associated Press — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:07:46 +0000

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called for Israel to be banned from sports events, while Norway is donating money from a football match to support Gaza. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called for Israel to be banned from sports events after pro-Palestinian activists disrupted the final stage of the Spanish Vuelta cycling race in […]

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The E1 battle: Why Israel can’t bow to Macron’s Palestinian fantasy

Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 01:42:30 +0000

Israel’s recent approval of 3,401 housing units in the strategic E1 corridor has unleashed the usual chorus of outrage from world leaders and Palestinian statehood advocates. Chief among them is French President Emmanuel Macron, who is pushing to force a United Nations General Assembly vote on Palestinian statehood in September. For Macron, it’s a grand […]

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Europeans in talks with Iran as Rubio calls around

Reuters — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 06:39:17 +0000

European diplomats are hoping to reset Iran’s nuclear program to de-escalate the conflict with Israel, as the US Secretary of State calls allies. As European diplomats seek to de-escalate the Israel/Iran conflict, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been discussing the situation with other countries. Rubio met British foreign minister David Lammy on Thursday […]

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Anti-Semitic incidents rise in Europe as Gaza war rages

Reuters — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 00:56:26 +0000

The war in Gaza has contributed to a sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents in Europe, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights says. A survey conducted between January and June 2023 shows anti-Semitism was already high in Europe before the war began in October, and information collected from 12 Jewish community organisations since then showed […]

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Israeli president calls on Europe to fight online antisemitism

Pesach Benson — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 05:18:23 +0000

Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Brussels called on Europe to fight online antisemitism on Thursday, stressing that “the Holocaust was not conceived in a vacuum.” Addressing the European Parliament ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday, Herzog denounced rising levels of antisemitism in Europe. “Today, we see movements on the extremes of European and […]

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The European Union’s subversion of Israel

Melanie Phillips - JNS.org — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 06:40:28 +0000

Liberal Jews in both the Diaspora and Israel have been hyperventilating over the “extremist” ministers in the incoming government headed by Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu. These are the rabble-rouser Itamar Ben-Gvir, the theocrat Bezalel Smotrich and the ultra-socially conservative Avi Maoz. With Netanyahu insisting that he will keep these three on a short leash, […]

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Jewish activists in Europe join forces against xenophobia

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 07:29:19 +0000

In recent years, Europe has seen an alarming rise in antisemitism…writes Nicci Mowszowski A study published by the European Commission, investigating the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on online antisemitism between 2020 and 2021, reported a sevenfold increase in French-language antisemitic content on Twitter, Facebook, and Telegram, while the same channels saw a thirteen-fold increase […]

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EU cuts its UNRWA budget by 40 percent

JNS — Tue, 17 May 2022 06:36:54 +0000

The European Union’s 2022-24 UNRWA aid budget will be 40% lower than during the previous three-year period, the E.U. announced last week. The new budget will provide $82 million annually, compared to the previous average annual figure of $135 million, according to the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), a […]

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UK sanctions billionaire Moshe Kantor, head of European Jewish Congress

JNS — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 05:17:33 +0000

Russian billionaire Moshe Kantor, who heads the European Jewish Congress and other prominent Jewish organizations, was sanctioned by the United Kingdom on Wednesday. “Our latest wave of measures will bring an end to the UK’s imports of Russian energy and sanction yet more individuals and businesses, decimating [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s war machine,” U.K. Foreign […]

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How Europe’s Jews understand their Jewish lives

J-Wire Newsdesk — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 01:00:52 +0000

The Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) has published a major new study of European Jewish identity, providing an updated profile of how the more than one million Jews living in the EU and UK today understand and live their Jewish lives. The report is based on research conducted in twelve European Union Member States […]

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