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A woman wearing a Palestinian flag pushes a stroller on a crosswalk outside EU headquarters in Brussels, May 26, 2024. (AP/Virginia Mayo)
January 8, 2026, 6:25 pm
Europe’s harshest Israel critics aren’t driven by Islamism or antisemitism, report suggests
Study to be released before International Holocaust Remembrance Day finds diplomatic failures, national narratives and virtue signaling in countries leading charge against Israel
By Zev Stub
Luxembourg's Prime Minister Luc Frieden arrives to attend the European Council in Brussels on June 26, 2025. (NICOLAS TUCAT / AFP)
September 16, 2025, 1:32 pm
Luxembourg says it will recognize Palestinian state at UN summit next week
Premier Luc Frieden says ‘situation on the ground has deteriorated considerably,’ leading country to endorse French-led campaign at upcoming 2-state solution conference
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Supporters of Irish band Kneecap hold Irish and Palestinian flags and pro-Palestinian placards as they gather outside Westminster Magistrates' Courts in London on June 18, 2025. (BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP)
September 1, 2025, 6:18 pm
Israel moves bond approval process out of Ireland as Dublin pushes to reject ties
Luxembourg takes over European Union task of okaying prospectus for Diaspora bond program, used to help finance war, as Irish ramp up anti-Israel protests
By Reuters
Tali Golergant winning the Luxembourg Song Contest on January 27, 2024. (Dani Reuter/RTL Luxembourg)
April 12, 2024, 7:43 am
Luxembourg banking on polyglot singer with Israeli roots for its Eurovision return
Tali Golergant is the first singer to represent the tiny nation since 1993. But with family ties to the Jewish state – including a brother who fought in Gaza – online hate is ablaze
By Amy Spiro
Screen capture from video of Israeli singer Tali Golergant's nomination-winning performance in Luxembourg's selection for an entry to the Eurovision Song Contest, 2024, January 27, 2024. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 28, 2024, 11:28 am
Luxembourg taps Israeli singer as Eurovision song entry
Tali Golergant, who wins nomination with song ‘Fighter,’ was born in Israel and speaks fluent Hebrew, says she visits at least once a year
By ToI Staff
A view of Luxembourg City's City Hall in 2008. Hundreds of real estate properties in the city could be subject to Holocaust restitution claims. (Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)
January 27, 2021, 5:43 pm
Luxembourg signs restitution deal to pay for funds, art looted during Holocaust
Agreement announced on International Holocaust Remembrance Day also provides financial resources to promote remembrance, education and research of Jewish genocide
By AP
Illustrative image of a man preparing meat at a kosher slaughterhouse (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
September 10, 2020, 8:26 pm
Top EU jurist says countries should not be allowed to ban ritual slaughter
Advice from advocate general Gerard Hogan seen as a blow against efforts to end Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter across the Continent
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Monday, June 25, 2012 (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
August 16, 2020, 12:28 am
Luxembourg FM: UAE ‘let down’ the Palestinians with Israel deal
Breaking ranks with EU, Jean Asselborn says Emiratis prioritized economic interests, security over solidarity with Palestinians; says no stability in region until 2-state solution
By Raphael Ahren
Composite photo L to R: Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn in Brussels on February 26, 2018; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset on May 24, 2020 (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo; Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)
June 19, 2020, 11:19 am
EU’s elder statesman: Annexation flouts biblical tenet ‘Thou shalt not steal’
Luxembourg FM Jean Asselborn warns move would ‘make it very difficult’ for the EU to sign future agreements with Israel, explains why his country would recognize Palestinian state
By Raphael Ahren
Palestinian demonstrators hold pictures of US President Donald Trump and and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a protest in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near the West Bank city of Nablus, November 29, 2019. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
December 10, 2019, 1:42 am
EU to debate Mideast policy as 2-state solution hopes fade
Divided European Union foreign ministers to hold talks amid growing concern settlement activity and US diplomatic moves undermining hopes for agreement
By AP and ToI Staff
Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the Europa building in Brussels on Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. European Union foreign ministers meet in Brussels on Monday Feb. 26 to debate ways to revive Middle East peace efforts and discuss the crisis in Venezuela. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
December 9, 2019, 2:45 am
Luxembourg said pushing for EU states to recognize Palestine
Initiative, reportedly to be discussed next month, prompted by US declaration that it no longer views West Bank settlements as illegal; EU unanimity seen as extremely unlikely
By ToI Staff
Justice Minister Amir Ohana at the Tel Aviv Pride Parade, June 14, 2019. (Courtesy Justice Ministry)
July 16, 2019, 5:31 pm
Israel’s gay justice minister to Luxembourg’s gay PM: You shun us, but not Iran?
After Xavier Bettel skips Israeli ambassador’s sendoff to protest gay conversion therapy comments by Education Minister Rafi Peretz, Amir Ohana calls out apparent double standard
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Members of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims in Luxembourg for the signing of the Reparations Agreement between the German Federal Republic, the State of Israel, and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims, in 1952. Among those pictured is Benjamin Ferencz (second row from the front, second from the left). (Ben Ferencz/USHMM)
April 22, 2019, 6:18 am
Wealthy Luxembourg is western Europe’s last Holocaust restitution deadbeat
A 1950 law prevents about 75% of roughly 4,000 Jews who had lived there before the Nazi invasion of 1940 from applying for compensation for stolen property
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Israeli ambassador to Belgium and Luxemborg, Simona Frankel, speaks on Belgian radio on May 15, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)
May 16, 2018, 4:26 pm
Luxembourg summons Israeli ambassador for talks over Gaza violence
Simona Frankel, who’s also envoy to Brussels, claimed on radio that all Palestinians killed in Gaza border protests were terrorists
By Stuart Winer
Palestinians protest against the visit of US Vice President Mike Pence outside the church of nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on January 21, 2018. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
January 22, 2018, 6:27 am
Palestinians burn photo of Pence in Bethlehem protest over Israel trip
A dozen demonstrators holding signs reading ‘Pence go home’ cheer and wave Palestinian flags as image of vice president smolders on the ground
By AFP and ToI Staff
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