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German police arrest man suspected of trying to torch synagogue

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:08:39 +0000

Suspect held in psych ward; footage shows him performing Nazi salute before igniting pile of cardboard boxes in front of building; entrance to synagogue damaged

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Belgium’s Jewish community on edge after police raids on illegal circumcisions

Wed, 14 May 2025 15:52:34 +0000

Police in Antwerp looking for rabbis conducting the religious rite without medical license; Jewish group says raids part of larger campaign of intimidation against Jews in Belgium

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Survey: 82% of Europeans don’t consider fighting antisemitism a priority

Tue, 13 May 2025 15:16:28 +0000

Poll by the European Jewish Association finds that more than 20% blame Jews in their own countries for the war between Israel and Hamas

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Top rabbi urges Europe to act to ensure Jews remain amid antisemitism surge

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 01:33:50 +0000

European Jewish Association's Menachem Margolin says 40K have left Europe over antisemitism in recent years, with serious measures needed to ensure rest of community doesn't follow

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‘We are collateral damage’: Orthodox Belgian MP set to fight for the Jews of Europe

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 13:02:20 +0000

As the European Jewish Association's first diplomatic envoy, Michael Freilich will go to battle as Jews' and Muslims' religious freedoms are systematically shrunk in the EU

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Belgian author sued for writing he wants to ram ‘knife through throat of every Jew I meet’

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 05:18:42 +0000

Herman Brusselmans declares he is filled with rage every time he sees a Jew on the street due to war in Gaza; he and magazine defend article as satirical

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Belgian arts center apologizes for canceling Jewish school’s event over Gaza war

Sat, 08 Jun 2024 20:36:43 +0000

But head of Antwerp's municipal-funded Monty Hall, which had cited Israel's 'genocide,' still vows not to cooperate with Israeli government 'or any organization associated with it'

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Best offense is good self-defense: Fighting antisemitism gets physical at Jewish confab

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 04:06:04 +0000

Emigration projections and gun permit discussions are at the center of an international event held in the Netherlands under the shadow of anti-Jewish violence

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A leader of European Jews accuses Ben Gvir of exacerbating antisemitism

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 06:52:58 +0000

Critics hit back at European Jewish Congress president for his comments on far-right minister, accusing him of 'sanctimony' and 'failed appeasement"

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Poll on antisemitism in Moldova shows much hostility alongside widespread affection

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 13:05:33 +0000

Nearly half of respondents in Eastern European country say they don't like Jews but 40% indicate they 'really like' them

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Could social media have stopped the Holocaust? Scholars doubt Elon Musk’s theory

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:12:27 +0000

Visiting the Auschwitz death camp, the billionaire said the genocide could have been mitigated if only his platform X had been around 80 years ago. Academics beg to differ

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At Auschwitz, Musk says social media, free speech would have prevented extermination

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 19:55:08 +0000

On his first visit to Nazi death camp, owner of X dismisses allegations that his laissez-faire attitude is promoting antisemitism

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In unusual move, rabbis in Europe condemn Armenian Holocaust comparisons

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 21:51:50 +0000

A letter cosigned by more than 100 rabbis accuses Armenia of distorting the genocide's memory to hurt the reputation of its rival, Azerbaijan

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As Jewish leaders debate community’s future in Europe, their kids are already leaving

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 19:42:40 +0000

Antisemitism and the dwindling of European Jewry are eroding the hopes of some devoted activists to raise families in the communities they run

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At concentration camp once used for Nazi propaganda, European Jews fight ‘fake news’

Fri, 27 Jan 2023 04:45:02 +0000

Ahead of the January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an EJA delegation gathers at Theresienstadt to honor the victims and stop the spread of antisemitic misinformation

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