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Facebook Will Now Ban Holocaust Denial, in a Major Shift
Mark Zuckerberg at the Breakthrough Prize awards ceremony at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, on Nov. 3, 2019. (Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images via JTA.org) By Ben Sales...
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British Politician Gets Death Threats Over His Support for London Holocaust...
Robert Jenrick, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, gives an interview in London, the United Kingdom on Oct. 11. (David Nash/Barcroft Media via Getty Images via JTA.org)...
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Germany Allocates $662 Million in Emergency Funding for Holocaust Survivors...
Holocaust survivor Larisa Rakovskaya in her Odessa apartment on Sept. 14, 2012. (Cnaan Liphshiz, via JTA.org) By Cnaan Liphshiz Germany has pledged an extra $662 million toward helping Holocaust...
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Nationalist Marchers in Kyiv Say Ukraine is Under ‘Occupation’ by ‘Jewish Clan’
A woman wearing a Ukrainian flag makes an ultranationalist gesture at an event honoring Nazi collaborators in Kyiv, Ukraine on Oct. 14. (STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images) By Cnaan Liphshiz Participants in...
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British Supreme Court Permits Orthodox Housing Associations to Decline...
A view to a commercial area of the London borough of Hackney. (City of London, via JTA.org) By Cnaan Liphshiz Orthodox Jewish housing associations in the United Kingdom may continue to restrict...
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Twitter Joins Facebook in Banning Holocaust Denial
A Twitter logo is seen displayed on a smartphone. (Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images via JTA.org) By Ben Sales Twitter will now ban posts that deny the Holocaust....
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British Journalist Leaves BBC After Discovery That He Backed Allegedly...
Wiley performs at O2 Academy Brixton hours after receiving his MBE from the Duke of Cambridge in London, March 2, 2018. (Ollie Millington/Redferns/Getty Images via JTA.org) By Cnaan Liphshiz A...
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Jewish Prisoner in Russian Penal Colony Goes on Hunger Strike to Get Shabbat Off
A view of a prison colony in the village of Shamkhal, Russia on Sept. 23. (Musa Salgereyev/TASS via Getty Images via JTA.org) By Cnaan Liphshiz A Russian-Jewish man imprisoned near Moscow said he’s...
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French Jewish Groups Urge Members to Rally Against Islamic Terrorism
A police officer walks into the scene of the murder of a history teacher in Éragny, France on Oct. 16. (Abdulmonam Eassa/AFP via Getty Images via JTA.org) French Jewish groups have called on their...
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British Trade Union Leader Sorry for Telling Jewish Ex-Banker to Go ‘Count...
General Secretary of Unite the Union Len McCluskey leaves the BBC Broadcasting House in London, England on Nov. 17, 2019. (Ollie Millington/Getty Images via JTA.org) By Cnaan Liphshiz A prominent trade...
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Europe’s Jewish Population is as Low as it Was 1,000 Years Ago
A man celebrates Sukkot in Rome, Italy, on Oct. 9. (Stefano Montesi/Corbis/Getty Images) By Cnaan Liphshiz AMSTERDAM — Jews’ share of the population of Europe is as low now as it was 1,000 years ago...
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German Auction House Under Fire Again for Selling Hitler Papers
Adolf Hitler in Nuremberg, Germany in 1935. (API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images via JTA.org) By Gabe Friedman Less than a year after it spurred widespread Jewish condemnation for selling Nazi...
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TikTok Also Cracks Down on Anti-Semitism Ahead of Election
Logo of the social network application Tik Tok on the screen of a phone. (Martin Bureau/AFP via Getty Images, via JTA.org) By Ben Sales Following the lead of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, the video...
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Bahraini Institution joins with State Department to Combat Anti-Semitism and...
Ellie Cohanim, left, the deputy U.S. anti-Semitism monitor, looks on as Elan Carr, center, the U.S. anti-Semitism monitor and Shaikh Khalid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, the chairman of the King Hamad Global...
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Stockholm Has a Swedish-born Rabbi for First Time
Rabbi Mattias Amster says people appreciate his knowledge of Swedish culture. (John Gradowski, via JTA.org) By Josefin Dolsten The rabbis who come to work in Stockholm usually speak very little Swedish...
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Hamas Releases Two Men Held Since April for Speaking with Israelis Online
Hamas security forces marching at a police academy graduation ceremony in Gaza City on July 11, 2018. (Wissam Nassar/Flash90 via JTA.org) By Cnaan Liphshiz Hamas authorities in Gaza released two men...
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France Cracks Down on Radical Islam – With Blessing of Jewish Minority
French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech on combating radical Islam in Mulhouse, France on Feb. 18. (Jean-Francois Badias / POOL / AFP) By Cnaan Liphshiz As the French government rolls out a...
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Riga Holocaust Museum to Remain Open After City Waives Rent
A man stands inside the Riga Ghetto Museum in Riga, Latvia on Jan. 11, 2014. (Fishman/Ullstein via Getty Images via JTA) By Cnaan Liphshiz The city government of Riga, Latvia, waived its demand for...
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Labour Guilty of “Unlawful Acts of Harassment” Against Jews, UK Government...
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, right, and his successor Keir Starmer talk to journalists in Brussels, Belgium on March 21, 2019. (Thierry Monasse/Getty Images) By Cnaan Liphshiz Britain’s Labour...
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Partisan Fighting Divides World Zionist Congress
Representatives from various parties sign an agreement in Jerusalem on Oct. 22 .Courtesy of World Union of Meretz Liberal Israeli and Diaspora groups this week pushed back against an agreement by a...
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