Global News Archives

August 2007


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Australian airline to investigate stewardess’ anti-Semitic slur	Iranian President rants against Israel and Jews again	Chabad opens new Jewish community center in Berlin

Polish city of Kielce commemorates 1942 Nazi massacre	Dutch government funds Ukrainian Holocaust education program	CNN documentary on fanatics accused of anti-Jewish bias

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Israel Museum publishes list of art looted during WWII	Anti-Semitic Polish broadcaster may receive EU funds	George W. Bush warns of “nuclear Holocaust” in the Middle East

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French president warns of a nuclear Iran and of ‘Hamastan’	Polish bishops divided over right-wing head of Radio Maryja	Palestinian dance troupe fails to get Israel excluded from festival

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Far-right Hungarian party swears in paramilitary wing	German Jewish body complains about hate videos on YouTube	Austrian volunteers have problems getting US visas

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Turkish Jewish community rejects Armenian genocide label	Austrian right wing author and Shoah denier arrested in Spain	Concern about Palestinian UN committee meeting in Brussels

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American Jewish groups discuss Armenian genocide resolution	US unhappy with Iran’s deal with Atomic Energy Agency	Russian police detain suspected cemetery vandal

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Holocaust museums receive copies of Nazi Holocaust files	Violent right-wing attack against Indians stirs debate in Germany	US judge orders deportation of 92 year old Nazi collaborator

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Knesset speaker apologizes to Israel’s Shoah survivors	Vandals of historic Jewish cemetery arrested in Germany	Israel refuses to admit any more refugees from Darfur

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Agreement reached on stipends for Israeli Shoah survivors	American Lutheran Church to consider boycott of Israeli goods	Czech police investigate list of reportedly Jewish politicians

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Benjamin Netanyahu re-elected as Likud party leader	Iranian court summons AMIA bombing investigators	Iranian Revolutionary Guards designated as terror group

14

Man apologizes to Holocaust scholar Wiesel over elevator attack	Anne Frank's best friend says anti-Semitism is still rife	New Jewish public school causing controversy in Florida

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British trade unionists softening stance on Israel boycott	NY politician repudiates anti-Jewish remarks made 18 years ago	Russia slurs UK government minister over Jewish grandfather

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Polish president condemns desecration of Jewish cemetery	Jewish judge steps down from hate trial after defendant objects	Vatican assures Jews over Pope’s meeting with radical Polish priest

09

US anti-terror official to discuss Iranian sanctions with Israel	Jewish groups upset at Pope's meeting with radical Polish priest	Australian Jewish cricketers targeted with anti-Semitic comments

08

Pope in private audience with head of anti-Semitic radio station	Hitler listened to Jewish, Russian musicians and composers	Landmark synagogue in the UK listed as a protected historic building

07

American Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg dies aged 81	Jewish cemetery in Poland desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti	Norway reverses controversial decision on ties with Hamas

06

Former archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger dies	Olmert denounces survivor protests against stipend	Cambridge University against Israel boycott

03

Criticism of US arms deal with Saudis	US lawmakers press Interpol over AMIA arrest warrants	Chabad launches Jewish news website

02

New push for Middle East peace deal	Thousands of academics against British boycott plans	Access incident at former Nazi camp

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Shoah survivors call Israeli pension scheme “disgraceful”	Peres calls Ahmadinejad “an unbelievable joke”	Yad Vashem opens exhibit on anti-Semitism in Berlin