Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan decried what he called Jewish control of the media and accused “Zionists” of trying to push America into war with Iran. Farrakhan spoke for three hours Sunday before a crowd of thousands at the 82nd annual Saviors’...
ATHENS, Greece -- Antonis Samaras, the leader of Greece's New Democracy Party, reaffirmed his personal and the party's commitment against anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. Samaras stressed in an e-mail to the American Jewish Committee that the party's...
A Polish champion horse entered in an Arizona horse show has offended some local Jewish residents because his name, Pogrom, refers to anti-Jewish attacks. The 3-year-old colt was entered to compete in the Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show, which ends Sunday....
By Elise Jarvis, JTA
• Published February 22, 2012
By Elise Jarvis JTA NEW YORK—The recent attacks against Israeli diplomats abroad, which are suspected to have been carried out by Iran or its proxies, and the recent series of high-profile anti-Semitic incidents in the United States have raised...
Jewish groups condemned Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for anti-Semitic attacks by government-controlled media on the opposition's presidential candidate, Henrique Capriles Radonski. The Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center in separate...
ATHENS -- Greek Jewish leaders have expressed concern over the movement of two far-right lawmakers to the conservative party. Makis Voridis and Adonis Georgiadis, two former deputies of the Popular Orthodox Rally, or Laos, a far-right party, have joined...
WASHINGTON -- A pro-Palestinian Presbyterian church affiliate pulled down its Facebook page after Jewish groups complained about offensive postings. "At present, Facebook does not provide a setting where fans can 'like' and 'share' links without posting...
A leader of Hungary's far-right, anti-Semitic Jobbik Party questioned the Holocaust and claimed that Jews were colonizing Hungary, in an interview with Britain's Jewish Chronicle. Marton Gyongyosi, deputy leader and foreign affairs spokesman for Jobbik,...
Istvan Csurka, a far-right Hungarian writer and politician who was notorious for his anti-Semitism, has died. His family announced his death of an undisclosed illness at the age of 77 on Saturday. Late last year Csurka, a playwright and essayist, had...
SYDNEY, Australia -- An Australian TV broadcaster rejected complaints from Jewish groups that a controversial series "endorses and reinforces demeaning stereotypes about Jews." Special Broadcasting Service ombudsman Sally Begbie this week dismissed a...
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazil's president attended a Holocaust remembrance ceremony that honored Jewish and Afro-descendant victims. President Dilma Rousseff and several Jewish and non-Jewish officials attended a Holocaust remembrance ceremony held Jan. 29...
Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul reportedly signed off on racially charged newsletters in the 1990s, despite denying his involvement. Paul said recently that he was not involved in the writing of and did not read the "Ron Paul Survival Report"...
