Global News Archives


DECEMBER 2005


21 December

Cologne mayor supportive of plans to build Jewish museum	Bush sends Hanukkah message to Jews	Project launched about culture and traditions of Jews in Latvia

20 December

Students use winter break to clean up flooded synagogue in New Orleans	Australian racist receives jail sentence for racially-motivated attacks	Shoah survivors in new EU countries to rise in compensation payments

Slovakia publishes detailed information about Nazi-era discrimination of Jews	Former Nazi commander acquitted of participating in massacre in Slovakia	Angela Merkel to visit Israel in January

19 December

Top European Union diplomat warns Palestinian voters over Hamas	Iranian regime defends comments by president Ahmadinejad	European Jewish Congress president received by King Abdullah of Jordan

16 December

Canadian family wins Czech court case over restitution of art collection	US Congressmen argue over protection of Christmas symbolism	Poll finds French voters increasingly supportive of far-right

Grandson of Sigmund Freud wins case against Swiss banks	Remains of Jewish Nazi camp inmates buried in ceremony	Saudi envoy to USA acknowledges Holocaust as "historical fact"

15 December

European Parliament lifts immunity of French far-right leader	EU Commission President Barroso says "Iranians deserve a better president"	Judge dismisses charges of anti-Semitism against Irishman

14 December

Austria begins making restitution payments to Nazi victims	Iran's hard-line president continues with Holocaust denial and anti-Israel rhetoric	Fascist salute in stadium by soccer player causes outrage in Italy

13 December

Croatia's president speaks out against glorification of the country's pro-Nazi past	London mayor partly cleared of misconduct over anti-Jewish remarks	Bolton says United Nations is biased against Israel; demands reforms

12 December

Wanted Nazi criminal Alois Brunner hiding in Brazil?	Yad Vashem petitioned to make Ukrainian priest a 'Righteous Gentile'	German Jewish leader calls on Government to cut ties to Iran

09 December

Iranian President attacks Israel; questions dimension of Shoah	Euro-Asian Congress VP appointed governor of Ukrainian region	German soccer team apologizes for anti-Jewish banner in stadium

08 December

International Parliamentarians condemn anti-Semitism	Yad Vashem honors 85 Austrians helping Jews under the Nazi rule	Mel Gibson plans to produce TV series on the Holocaust

02 December

Swiss Jewish groups angry about verdict in synagogue arson attack	UN General Assembly passes controversial anti-Israel resolutions	German retailer drops lawsuits against Wertheim family over seized properties

01 December

High-level inter-religious encounters to take place in Paris on Sunday	Le Pen again calls gas chambers "only a detail of World War II"	Pope: "Nazi death camps an indelible shame in the history of mankind"