Macri to pursue AMIA, Israel Embassy bombing probes
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (WJC) — World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder on Tuesday welcomed Argentine President Mauricio Macri at a gathering of more than 400 Jewish leaders from around the...
View ArticleLauder: U.N. a ‘cesspool’ of anti- Semitism
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (WJC) — A special Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), attended by more than 400 delegates and observers from 67 Jewish communities, on Wednesday voted...
View ArticleAP rejects report that it cooperated with Nazis
NEW YORK (WJC) –The world’s leading press agency, the ‘Associated Press’ (AP), willingly collaborated with Germany from 1935 to 1941 to disseminate Nazi propaganda photos in the United States and...
View ArticleEuropean Jewish News: April 11, 2016
French far-right party founder fined for downplaying Holocaust PARIS (JNS.org) The founder and former leader of France’s far-right National Front party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, has been fined for denying...
View ArticleHamas tunnel to southern Israel destroyed
JERUSALEM (WJC) — The Israeli Defense Forces uncovered and destroyed a Hamas attack tunnel penetrating southern Israel, the first to be detected since the end of the military campaign in Gaza in the...
View ArticleSVP subject to Nazi- style persecution — Blocher
ZURICH, Switzterland (WJC)– The former leader of the populist Swiss People’s Party (SVP), Christoph Blocher, caused an outcry over the weekend after comparing the treatment of his party in a...
View ArticlePutin, WJC praise Russian Jewry
MOSCOW (JNS.org) — Russian President Vladimir Putin met with delegates from the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and the Russian Jewish Congress at the Kremlin on Tuesday to discuss Jewish life in Russia....
View ArticleBritain’s student union elects anti- Zionist as president
LONDON (WJC) — Malia Bouattia, who was elected president of the National Union of Students (NUS) in the UK on Tuesday, is facing criticism from Jewish students over controversial remarks about Israel....
View ArticleEl Salvador’s Castellanos honored by Germany
BERLIN (WJC) –Germany’s Foreign Office and the Centrum Judaicum Berlin held an event in the German capital in honor of José Arturo Castellanos Contreras, El Salvador’s consul-general in Geneva who...
View ArticleLieberman angling to become Israel’s defense minister
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched surprise talks on Wednesday with his former foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, the head of Yisrael Beiteinu party, on bringing...
View ArticleVan de Bellen defeats Haider in Austria
VIENNA (WJC) — The candidate of the far-right Freedom Party in Austria, once led by the late Jörg Haider, only narrowly failed in his attempt to win the country’s presidency after postal ballots were...
View ArticleMuslim ‘peace advocate’ exposed as a hater
ANTWERP, Belgium (WJC)– A 22-year-old Muslim woman from Belgium whose picture went viral after she posed defiantly in front of anti-Islam protesters is under fire for anti-Israel posts she made in 2012...
View ArticleEuropean Jewish News: June 17, 2016
Lauder: Auschwitz guard ‘got the sentence he deserved’ (WJC) Ronald S. Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), on Friday welcomed the Detmold court’s verdict in the trial of former...
View ArticleBavaria accused of funneling stolen art back to Nazis
NEW YORK (WJC)- World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder said this week that he is dismayed by an investigation alleging that the German state of Bavaria had sold or given Nazi-looted art to...
View ArticleFrench religious leaders seek greater protection for houses of worship
PARIS (WJC) — Representatives of the Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Buddhist faiths spoke after meeting French President François Hollande. Fr. Jacques Hamel was killed while conducting morning mass in...
View ArticleKhamenei: Israel- Saudi warming a ‘stab in the back’
TEHRAN (WJC) — Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a harsh rebuke of Saudi Arabia on Monday for allegedly seeking better relations with Israel. “Revelation of Saudi government’s...
View ArticleEight months jail time for Holocause denier
HAMBURG, Germany (WJC) — An 87-year old German woman dubbed the ‘Nazi granny” by German media has been convicted of Holocaust denial and sentenced to eight months in prison for incitement to hatred....
View ArticleTrial of Auschwitz medic stalls amid legal wrangling
NEUBRANDENBURG, Germany (WJC)– The trial of a former medical orderly at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau resumed on Monday in Neubrandenburg, north of Berlin, with a call on the judge to recuse...
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