Two 19-year-olds sentenced in France for Nazi salute outside synagogue

The organization recorded 1,926 anti-Jewish hate incidents between January and June, up from 1,598 during the first half of 2025,

The state announced the ban after an administrative court found that Palästina e.V.’s purpose and activities go against Germany’s constitutional order.

“He launched a violent and terrifying attack, having immediately beforehand demonstrated antisemitic hatred towards the victim,” said a senior prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service.

The Board called on the Greek State to take all necessary measures to ensure the protection of citizens and visitors from all forms of racist and antisemitic violence and to bring the perpetrators before the Greek courts.

The controversy intensified after Anna Hovsepyan, a municipal councillor in Jette, revealed that the non-profit organisation behind the exhibition had received €30,000 in public funding.

The report, ‘Listening to British Jews’, is based on six focus groups involving 43 Jewish adults across the UK.

Presiding Judge Vitalija Norkūnaitė said Žemaitaitis had used public statements and social media posts to “grossly trivialise the genocide of the Jewish people, the Holocaust, and committed a continuous criminal offense”.

The eight-day initiative brought together 32 young volunteers in the historic Belarusian shtetl of Uzlyany, where they worked to preserve one of the last remaining physical reminders of a once-thriving Jewish community.

The suspect, who is known to police for previous offences, was detained by soldiers until police officers arrived and arrested him for questioning. No injuries were reported.

The plaque commemorates Arsène and Angèle Richard and their daughter Marcelle, who saved the life of Edmond Rajchman, then aged 13, during the mass arrests of Jews in July 1942.

According to reports by the German newspaper Bild, investigators believe the teenager had links to and sympathised with the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organisation.

Unknown perpetrators vandalised the mural by erasing the original message and replacing it with the words “Zionist Nazi Settlers” (“Coloni Sionisti Nazisti”), painted across the Stars of David.