Global News Archives

JULY 2005


July 29

Sharon wants one million Jews to make aliyah	Vatican counters Israeli criticism of Pope	Austria: anti-Semitism up, right-wing extremism down

German high court upholds freedom of speech for neo-Nazis	Disagreements surfaces in Anglican Church over Israel

July 28

Polish authorities remove toilets on Jewish burial ground	Chirac and Sharon get along well again	Irish heirs of survivors receive Swiss bank fund payout

American Protestants pass anti-Israel resolution	British FM Straw condemns Livingstone remarks	Controversial synagogue plans in New Jersey

July 27

Sharon praises France for its efforts against anti-Semitism	OAS secretary-general vows to fight racism, anti-Semitism	Edgar Bronfman Jr.: "Give back to your communities"

Focus turns to Islamist terrorists from African background	Scandal in India over pro-Nazi texts in schoolbook

July 26

Israel castigates Pope over sermon	Holocaust denial in the Knesset?	Ricky Martin wants to end Arab stereotypes

CRIF president cautious regarding fall of anti-Semitic acts in France	New Iraqi constitution to deny citizenship for Jews who left before 1963	European Commission tightens financial checks to counter terrorism

Sketches by Adolf Hitler auctioned off at Montreal auction

July 25

Son comes to defense of alleged war criminal	Jewish sites dated earlier than thought	ADL wants sale of anti-Mexico shirt halted

Anti-Semitic incidents in Paris	Islamist video criticizes Egypt for allowing in Israeli tourists	Pope to meet with Muslims and Jews at Cologne youth gathering

Estonia unveils Holocaust memorials

July 20

Claims Conference paid out one billion dollars in restitution in 2004	2000-year-old scroll found in Israel's desert?	Blair announces measures to prevent Islamic fundamentalism from spreading

London mayor Ken Livingstone likens Likud to Hamas	Neo-Nazi Zündel facing trial in Germany for inciting hatred

July 19

Suspected London bomber visited Israel in 2003	Muslim wrestler wins competition at Maccabiah Games	Police dissolve skinhead rally in Czech Republic

Buenos Aires marks 1994 AMIA bombing	Iraq may not recognize its remaining Jews as minority

July 18

Jewish coalition asks US president for action over Darfur crisis	Neo-Nazis attack Chilean TV station	Luxury resort hotel inaugurated on site where Hitler once spent his vacations

Anti-Semitic statements in Ukrainian papers on the increase	French commemorate anniversary of deportations	Congressman says sorry for comparing Nazi camps with Guantanamo

July 15

Jewish scholars in bitter row over plagiarism charges	Synagogue in Paris suburb town attacked	Turkey wants Iraq to extradite Istanbul bombing suspects

Law change in Britain might allow return of Nazi-looted paintings to heirs	Jewish cemetery in Slovakia desecrated

July 14

Argentina recognizes failure of the investigation into 1994 AMIA bombing	Large increase in French Jews making aliyah	Hitler sketches on sale in Montreal spark protests

Fist-fighting in Jerusalem as deposed Greek Orthodox patriarch refuses to go

July 13

Czech PM announces gesture toward "anti-fascist" Sudeten Germans	Fischer appoints historians group to investigate German foreign ministry's past	Cairo synagogue to reopen

European Commission president in talks with religious leaders	Lithuanian paper fined for publishing anti-Semitic article	Leading German Social Democrat makes Nazi comparison

July 12

Britain's religious leaders united against terror	Holocaust denier David Irving on speaking tour in Florida	Hohmann to run as independent candidate in Bundestag elections

Jewish comedy lands many awards at German Film Festival	EU foreign policy chief: Hamas not a partner for Middle East negotiations

July 11

Ahenakew attacks Canadian Jewish Congress after being convicted for spreading hate	Zentai arrested in Australia; faces extradition proceedings	Paintings returned to Jewish family 60 years after the end of WWII

Two Jews feared dead in London bomb attacks	Annan calls Ziegler's comparison "irresponsible"

July 7

Outraged by terrorist attacks in London	Terrorist attack a barbaric assault on humanity	Reform Movement condemns London bombing

B'nai B'rith deplores London terrorist attacks	Hevesi condemns Presbyterian divestment from Israel	WJC welcomes OSCE call for ending the boycott of Israel by the Arab League

Legislators met in Washington to tackle anti-Semitism	Polish-born Israeli not to be extradited for post-WWII crimes	Report: Circumcision may reduce HIV risk

Neo-Nazis soon to be stripped of Israeli citizenship?

July 6

UCC's Israel divestment action "Troubling"	UCC's irresponsible final resolution on Israel	UCC call for divestment and economic pressure on Israel condemned

US Protestant church backs off from outright economic boycott of Israel	Religious groups call for consultation over Supreme Court judge replacement	Prince Charles receives victims of WWII "Kindertransport"

Jewish group wants to file lawsuits against anti-Semites in Russia	Pope to visit synagogue in Cologne, say psalm in Hebrew

July 5

OSCE Assembly's call for action against anti-Semitism praised	Imported oil threatens national security	"Withdraw discriminatory directory from circulation"

Lipmans donate Torah to University of Maryland Hillel	Congratulations to Roger Bismuth	Abbas' invitation to include Hamas in Palestinian regime shows terror is goal

Jerusalem Day	Foreign minister: Romania morally bound to teach the young about Holocaust	Auschwitz survivor kicked out of Czech umbrella group

New Warsaw museum soon to tell the story of Polish Jewry	Australia expected to allow extradition proceedings against alleged Hungarian war criminal

July 4

Ambassadors from 25 European Union nations briefed on anti-Semitism	European far-right extremists' planned September gathering in Greece stirs protests	Former Israeli chief rabbi: Hummus seeds not kosher when roasted by non-Jews

Rabbi enraged about posters denying 1995 genocide in Srebrenica	Orthodox synagogues in Britain offer perks in return for joining	Arbitration panes takes web domain names away from neo-Nazi Lauck

July 1

Sandra Day O’Connor lauded for her distinguished service	Monday, July 11th is ‘Tolerance Day’ in New York	Liberty

Senate passage of CAFTA applauded	United Church of Christ members urged to vote down anti-Israel resolutions	Jewish cemetery in Bolivia vandalized

Iranian Jewish leader Hacham Yedidia Shofet has died	Anti-Jewish tendencies among French intellectuals?	Lithuanian court to hold hearing in anti-Semitism case