While reiterating their strong condemnation of the deadly chemical attack Syria, European Union leaders cautiously endorsed US President Donald Trump’s missile strikes on Syrian government forces.
''There are 32 humanitarian crises around the world, but the EU chooses to disproportionately focus only on what is done in Area C of the West Bank, which are most definitely not suffering a humanitarian crisis,” the Israeli foreign ministry’s Diector for Europe, Avivit Bar-Ilan, told a European diplomat who was summoned to the ministry.
‘’When I saw pictures of babies suffocating from a chemical attack in Syria, I was shocked and outraged,’’ said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Israeli leaders from across the political spectrum condemned a chemical weapon attack carried out by the Syrian regime.
Crif, the umbrella representative group of French Jewish institutions, said it is in contact with police and Paris prosecutor to shed light on the death of a 66-year old French Jewish woman who was thrown off her Paris apartment balcony by an Arab neighbor.
Another gem of the Jewish ‘Chesed’ Center in Moscow: professional and dedicated nursing care for the elderly and lonely Jews, including many Holocaust survivors.
Next week's Pessach celebration will be the last for the Jewish community center of Umea, Sweden The Simon Wiesenthal Center denounced the Swedish authorities’s failure to provide security to its Jewish citizens after Members of the Jewish Association of Umea, north of Sweden, decided to close the doors of their community center following a series of anti-Semitic incidents and threats to members of the community.
More than 382,000 anti-Semitic posts were uploaded to social media over the course of 2016, an average of 43.6 posts per hour, or one post every 83 seconds, according to a survey conducted by the World Jewish Congress.
Is Europe fighting the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement? Although the atmosphere seems to point out that BDS is stronger, many European countries are fighting this phenomena.