The websites of two former Nazi concentration camps have been attacked by hackers, who replaced a ‘Book of the Dead’ on the Buchenwald pages with neo-Nazi slogans and completely erased the Mittelbau-Dora site. read more »
In Canberra, the Australian government announced new restrictions on business dealings with Iran in the oil and gas sector. read more »
France and the Palestinian Authority are upgrading their diplomatic relations, with the Palestinian delegation in Paris being promoted to the status of a diplomatic mission. The US State Department granted the PLO office in Washington to fly the Palestinian flag. read more »
A fluttering Palestinian flag in Washington may help convince some that direct talks will lead to peace. read more »
Israel has no plans to extend the ten-month building freeze in Israeli settlements in the West Bank after September, the country’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said. read more »
A day after British Prime Minister David Cameron publicly sided with Turkey in the Gaza flotilla row, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle was in Istanbul and praised the government of Turkey for mediating in the dispute over Iran's nuclear program. read more »
A writers’ conference at a public university in southern France was canceled after some Arab participants refused to attend because of the presence of the Israeli author Esther Orner. read more »
Swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans including the Nazi slogans “Arbeit macht frei” (Work will set you free) and “Juden raus” (Jews out) were spray-painted on the outside of a synagogue in Olney, Maryland. read more »
Canada and the 27 member countries of the European Union have adopted economic restrictions against Tehran, targeting Iran's energy sector and banks. Russia called these steps "unacceptable" because they went beyond the UN sanctions. read more »
Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron has condemned Israel’s raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla. He criticized the blockade of the Gaza Strip and compared the territory to a "prison camp.” read more »
The nonprofit group Save a Torah has agreed it will only give provenances of its Torah scrolls “if there is documentation or an independent verifiable witness to such history,” according to an agreement with Maryland officials. read more »
American movie director Oliver Stone has alleged that Jewish control of the media was preventing an open debate about the Holocaust. He also alleged that the Jewish lobby in Washington was controlling US foreign policy. read more »
A firecracker has exploded on the steps of the synagogue in the Swedish city of Malmö, a day after a bomb threat was taped to the building. read more »
The head of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry has criticized the National Council of Churches in Australia over a resolution which asks churches to boycott goods produced by Jewish settlers in the West Bank. read more »
Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu has likened the ‘fact-finding’ team named by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate the deadly IDF raid on a Turkish ship in May to the Goldstone committee, but Israel reportedly will cooperate with the investigation. read more »
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou in Jerusalem, where both leaders announced a strengthening of relations between their countries. read more »
An Israeli women's volleyball team was assailed by protestors while playing against Serbia in the Turkish capital Ankara on Saturday. read more »
Organizers of a Palestinian music festival in Ramallah have prevented the music band Boney M to perform one of its greatest hits because the song refers to the exiled Jewish people's yearning to return to the biblical land of Israel. read more »
The Israeli government has decided to postpone a controversial new law to regulate conversion to Judaism that drew sharp criticism from Jews in the Diaspora. read more »
Spanish activists who were aboard the controversial Gaza-bound aid flotilla raided by the Israeli Navy at the end of May have filed a lawsuit in a Spanish court against Israel for alleged crimes against humanity. read more »
