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Spain’s Jewish Community urges U.S. Supreme Court to order return of Nazi-looted Pissarro painting held by the Thyssen Museum

The Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain filed an amicus curiae brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Cassirer family, who are demanding that the Thyssen Museum returns a painting which was looted by the Nazis.

More than 4,500 antisemitic crimes recorded in Germany in 2024

In the fourth quarter of 2024 alone, 671 antisemitic crimes were reported to the Federal Criminal Police Office. These included 24 violent crimes and 237 cases of incitement to hatred.

Man arrested for alleged antisemitic assault against a minor in Rome

Police in Italy arrested a 33-year-old Egyptian man suspected of assaulting a Jewish boy on the street in Rome after ordering him to take off his kippah.

Shoah survivor Gerd Klestadt passes away at 92

A direct witness to the horrors of the Shoah, he became an active advocate for remembrance starting in 2001.

Man arrested for ISIS plot targeting Naples Jewish community

In addition to the arrest for “international terrorism of Islamist origin,” the suspect is being charged with “subversion of the democratic order.”

CRIF reports 1,570 antisemitic incidents in France in 2024

Among these incidents, some were particularly violent, including the attack on the La-Grande-Motte synagogue, the arson attack on the Rouen synagogue, and the antisemitic rape of a 12-year-old girl in Courbevoie.

National Railway Company of Belgium advised to apologise for its role in Holocaust deportations

Documents show that SNCB received nearly 51 million Belgian francs in the 1940s to deport Jews, Roma, members of the Resistance and forced labourers to Auschwitz.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer vows to fight “poison of antisemitism” in Auschwitz visit

He recalled feeling "a sickness" and "air of desolation" as he tried to make sense of "the enormity of this barbarous, planned, industrialised murder".

Ireland endorses Global Guidelines for Countering Antisemitism and the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

" I have been deeply concerned at the current trend of a global rise in antisemitism, both online and offline. The government takes this issue seriously, and we will continue to tackle all forms of discrimination" said Ireland Deputy Prime Minister Micheál Martin.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany has the responsibility to uphold the memory of the Holocaust

Scholz also underscored the "worrying and alarming normalisation" of antisemitism, hate and the far right, especially on social media.

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