(JTA) Belgian promoters of a ban on kosher and halal slaughter of animals saw their bill defeated in Brussels, the seat of the European Union and the only region of Belgium where the practice is still legal. The vote Friday in the […]
(JTA) Prosecutors in France said they are considering antisemitism as a possible factor in the death of an elderly Jewish man in Lyon, who police initially said had died in a dispute unconnected to his religion. The Tribune Juive Jewish paper on […]
(JTA) A dispute between neighbors in France ended with the death of a 90-year-old Jewish man, according to police, who do not suspect an antisemitic motive. Police arrested a 51-year-old neighbor of the deceased, René Hadjaj, sometime after Hadjaj’s death on Tuesday […]
(JTA) A new parliamentary report on the 2017 killing of a Jewish woman by a Muslim attacker was meant to restore French Jews’ faith in their country’s police and justice systems. Instead, the report released last week has added fuel to the […]
(JTA) The highest court in Greece has ruled against allowing ritual slaughter, fulfilling fears that some Jewish leaders voiced last year after the European Union’s top court ruled in support of such bans. Last December, the EU’s highest court upheld the bans […]
(JTA) A Muslim imam in Norway who has led interfaith dialogue projects has made antisemitic statements on Facebook, including on how Jews are dangerous and “should be killed,” for years. The Norway branch of Minhaj-ul-Quran, an international Muslim organization that is considered […]
(JTA) A far-left politician who won 19% of the votes in France’s last presidential race and is running again next year suggested that a jihadist’s 2012 murder of four Jews in Toulouse was part of an elections conspiracy. “You’ll see that on […]
(JTA) Some 2,500 protesters in Austria against Israel’s actions in Gaza chanted about a massacre of Jews during a rally Thursday, Der Standard reported. Meanwhile, in England, an antisemitic slogan about Palestine was painted on the door of a synagogue. Eight people […]
(JTA) Israeli flags were burned in front of two synagogues in Germany and the words “Free Palestine” were spray-painted on another one in Spain. The incidents this week are among the first manifestations of antisemitism in Europe connected to the escalation of […]
(JTA) Paris will soon inaugurate in its historic Jewish quarter a street named for Sarah Halimi, Mayor Anne Hidalgo said amid protests over authorities’ handling of the killing. Hidalgo made the announcement on Sunday following a rally by about 20,000 people, mostly […]
(JTA) Joining the stream of people converging on Trocadero Square, I soon realized that this event would be significantly different from the dozens of Jewish community gatherings I had attended in France. The atmosphere, rhetoric, symbolism and attendance at the “Justice for […]
(JTA) French immigration authorities deported a 19-year-old immigrant from Algeria who was jailed for refusing to deliver food to Jews after it was discovered he was living [in] France illegally. Dhia Edine D. was sentenced in January to four months in jail […]
(JTA) Relatives of a Paris woman who was killed by her neighbor while he spewed anti-Semitic slurs and was high on marijuana have lost their final appeal to have the killer tried. In its decision Wednesday, the Court of Cassation’s Supreme Court […]
(JTA) Swiss voters passed a referendum on banning face-covering veils, prompting the country’s Muslim and Jewish groups to protest that infringement on religious freedoms. The Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities and the Platform for Liberal Jews in Switzerland said the ban, which […]
(JTA) Guards protecting a Jewish school in the French city of Marseille overpowered a man wielding a knife whom they suspected intended to stab patrons at a nearby kosher store and bakery. The incident Friday morning happened in the city’s 13th district, […]
(JTA) Putting a small-town Jewish baker on the ticket was supposed to change the public image of the Netherlands’ Party of Unity — but not like this. Run by Islamic fundamentalists, the tiny party has had little impact at the ballot box since […]
(JTA) Amid protest by prominent Dutch Holocaust survivors, an author who called Gaza “a ghetto” and said he feels uncomfortable around Jews has stepped down as keynote speaker of the national ceremony commemorating victims of the genocide. In a statement published Thursday […]
(JTA) The national commemoration committee of the Netherlands named as its keynote speaker a Muslim author who has called Gaza a “ghetto” and is accused of making anti-Semitic statements about Dutch Jews. The National 4 and 5 May Committee made the announcement […]
(JTA) French police have arrested an Algerian man they say declined to serve Jewish-owned businesses because of anti-Semitic discrimination while working as a food courier in Strasbourg. The man, Dhia Edine D., is an illegal immigrant, the French lawmaker Meyer Habib wrote […]
(JTA) Two kosher restaurants in the city of Strasbourg, France, said they had been … declined service by at least one delivery man, who allegedly said he does not want to serve Jews. Both incidents happened Thursday amid a partial lockdown due […]
(JTA) French police have arrested two adults and two minors suspected of an anti-Semitic hate crime in which they allegedly verbally assaulted a Jewish family near Paris in their car. The incident happened Thursday in the northern Paris suburb of Aubervilliers, French […]
(JTA) The Polish government has scrapped a bill that would have banned the production of kosher and halal meat, but vowed to introduce a new one. Agriculture Minister Grzegorz Puda announced Wednesday that the bill, already passed by parliament, will not be […]
(JTA) The ethics panel of Britain’s pharmaceutical regulatory agency ruled that a member’s claim that “Zionists” were guilty of “murder” in the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire was “offensive but not anti-Semitic.” The Practice Committee of the General Pharmaceutical Council declined on Thursday […]
(JTA) Following a suspected terrorist attack that left four dead in Vienna by a shooter who reportedly shouted “Allah,” European rabbis made an unusual appeal for more “control and transparency” over what goes on at mosques across the continent. “It is important […]
(JTA) A Dutch human resources firm has determined that a Palestinian man who twice vandalized a kosher restaurant and tried to set it ablaze had terrorist motives. The NTA firm on Wednesday determined that Saleh Ali, an asylum seeker from Syria, indeed […]
(JTA) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan invoked the Holocaust in condemning France’s crackdown on radical Islam, calling it part of Europe’s history of criminality against members of minority religions. In a speech Monday in Ankara, Erdogan slammed French President Emmanuel Macron’s recently […]
(JTA) French Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia praised his government’s crackdown on radical Islamists, writing in an op-ed that it makes clear that “things are changing — belatedly, but all the same.” Korsia’s op-ed Wednesday in Le Figaro followed news that the French […]
(JTA) French Jewish groups have called on their supporters to join a rally Sunday in memory of the schoolteacher murdered Friday after facing criticism for showing caricatures of the Islamic prophet Muhammad to his students. The rally in memory of Samuel Paty, […]
(JTA) Poland’s senate passed a law that will end its $1.8 billion kosher and halal meat export industry in 2025. Religious communities will still be able to slaughter meat without prior stunning, as is required by Jewish and Muslim law, as long […]
(JTA) Antwerp’s Jewish community will lose its military protection under a plan by Belgium’s new government to eliminate the presence of soldiers in urban centers. Approximately 18,000 Jews live in the city in close proximity. Several troops protect its Jewish quarter. A […]
(JTA) A Jewish journalist in France said all underage immigrants should be deported because they’re “thieves, killers and rapists.” Prosecutors initiated a criminal investigation for alleged incitement to racist hatred against Eric Zemmour, a columnist and writer with ties to French far-right […]
(JTA) Poland has moved a step closer to terminating its $1.8 billion industry of kosher and halal meat for export — one day after a parliamentary committee had removed language about a ban in an animal rights bill. On Thursday night, the […]
(JTA) A hearing in the trial of alleged accomplices in the 2015 Hyper Cacher kosher store attack in Paris that left four people dead was set for Yom Kippur. Lawyers for the families of victims have asked for a postponement for the […]
(JTA) A ban on the for-export production of kosher and halal meat in Poland is off the table for the parliament there. An amendment to the draft of the Law on Animal Protection introduced Thursday by the agriculture committee omits the ban […]
(JTA) Denmark’s prime minister opposes a bill seeking to ban the nonmedical circumcision of boys, saying “Danish Jews must continue to be part of Denmark.” Mette Frederiksen of the ruling Social Democrat party made the statement during an interview Thursday on TV2 […]
(JTA) In two separate court cases in France, a Muslim man and a white supremacist were given prison sentences in connection with anti-Semitic behavior. The Muslim, a 21-year-old identified only as Mohammed, received one year in prison for participating in an armed […]
(JTA) The Danish parliament is scheduled to consider a bill proposing a ban on non-medical circumcisions. Henri Goldstein, the president of the Jewish Community in Denmark, says the measure represents “the worst threat since World War II” to the country’s Jews, who […]
(JTA) Demonstrations by Muslims in the Swedish city of Malmo against a far-right lawmaker turned violent and included chants in Arabic about killing Jews. Some protesters attending at least one of the rallies staged against a plan by Rasmus Paludan, the leader […]
(JTA) A Syrian asylum-seeker who in 2017 broke into a kosher restaurant in the Dutch capital was again arrested for smashing its windows while holding a lighter. Officers on Friday morning used pepper spray to subdue the 31-year-old man, Saleh Ali, outside HaCarmel […]
(JTA) On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, a Dutch-Muslim politician has tweeted a picture of a Jewish yellow star to protest plans to monitor coronavirus carriers. Arnoud van Doorn, a member of the City Council of The Hague, posted the picture […]
(JTA) An email from 2014 bearing the signature of an influential leader of Dutch Muslims expressed support for Hamas and said that Adolf Hitler was Jewish. The email carrying the signature of Yahia Bouyafa, chairman of the Association of Moroccan Mosques in […]
(JTA) Sweden’s largest church is supporting a parent’s right to have nonmedical circumcision performed on boys for religious reasons. The Swedish Church in a document titled “view on male circumcision” asserted that the practice, which is performed by Jews, Muslims and some […]
(JTA) A French judge convicted a Muslim man of a hate crime for assaulting a Jewish optician while shouting about Allah. On Oct. 4, Sliman Ouaki assaulted the owner of the Optical Center shop in Toulon near Marseille while shouting “Allah hu […]
(JTA) Protestors at a rally in the Netherlands against the assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani waved posters blaming Jews, a local watchdog group told police. At the demonstration Tuesday in front of the American embassy in Wassenaar, two women were photographed […]
(JTA) A French-Jewish man who was critically injured in a 2016 stabbing attack by a man who shouted about Allah succumbed to his injuries and died, his lawyer said. Chalom Levy died on Dec. 29 in an airplane that took him to […]
(JTA) An appeals court ruling that a man who killed a Jewish woman in her home while shouting Quranic verses is unfit to stand trial is prompting outraged reactions from French Jews who fear it sets a dangerous precedent that will undermine […]
(JTA) The Paris Appeals Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling that a Muslim man who killed his Jewish neighbor will not face trial because he was too high on marijuana to control his actions. The court relieved Kobili Traore, 29, […]
(JTA) A high school teacher in Belgium shared a Facebook video of an imam calling for a jihad, or holy war, against the Jews and those who “conspire” with them. Talal Magri, who teaches about Islam as part of the religions major […]
(JTA) A Muslim man who was charged with trying to kill a Jewish father and son at an Amsterdam market was found not criminally responsible for his actions and sent for psychological care. A Dutch judge ruled that Taha Ewis Bakri Abdel […]
(JTA) An imam from the Swedish city of Malmo for the first time confirmed his attendance at the city’s Kristallnacht Holocaust commemoration event. The planned attendance Saturday night of Salahuddin Barakat, founder of Malmo’s Academy of Islam, at Malmo’s synagogue is an […]
Thank you for reading Eye on Islamism.