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The US online payment company PayPal closed the account of one of France’s most powerful boycott Israel organisations – the France-Palestine Solidarity Association.

The Danish parliament voted last week to exclude Jewish settlements in the West Bank from bilateral agreements with Israel.

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein told the Belgian parliament on Tuesday that for all its noteworthy efforts to commemorate the Holocaust, “more work remains.”

A meeting between a European Parliament committee and the chairman of the Iranian Parliament's Committee for Foreign Policy sparked outrage because an Iranian MP participated in a conference featuring Holocaust deniers, and for his role in this month's crackdown of Iranian protests against the regime.

Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett has named the rise of the far-Right in various countries, the refugee crisis and the Internet as major factors spurring an increase of antisemitic incidents around the world, as he presented the annual antisemitism report to the government on Sunday.

Leading British historian Anthony Beevor has described a Ukrainian ban on his award-winning book Stalingrad as “utterly outrageous”.