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France's Sorbonne suspends lecture after antisemitic remarks on screen

The university said around 100 students and six lecturers were exposed to "explicitly racist remarks and Nazi apologia" during the course.

The Cube

Elon Musk's Grok revives a long-debunked claim about Auschwitz

Musk's AI chatbot Grok repeated a long-debunked antisemitic trope about Auschwitz that experts told The Cube contradicts overwhelming evidence.

Vatican

Vatican investigates Swiss Guard after antisemitic incident claims

Founded in 1506, the Pontifical Swiss Guard is the world’s oldest standing military corps and is charged with protecting the Pope.

Culture news

Protests at Paris Philharmonic disrupt Israeli conductor's concert

Pro-Palestinian activists threw smoke bombs during the concert by Israeli conductor Lahav Shani at the Philharmonie de Paris.

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Germany

Germany cracks down on Muslim groups viewed as threats to public order

The Interior Ministry said Muslim Interaktiv represented a threat to the country's constitutional order by promoting antisemitism and discrimination against women and sexual minorities.

Culture news

Political attire: Is wearing a Joy Division t-shirt antisemitic?

When Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stepped off a plane wearing a Joy Division t-shirt, he triggered a political storm. A minor one, but one that has us asking: Is wearing a Joy Division shirt controversial or antisemitic?

France

Four Bulgarians sentenced for defacing Paris Holocaust Memorial

Judges found the 'red hands' graffiti was part of a coordinated campaign to stir division in France, echoing a previous pro-Russian disinformation operation.

Germany

From Moscow with chaos: How Russia unites Germany's extremists

From neo-Nazis to left-wing groups, Russia is exploiting ideological overlaps and disinformation campaigns to sow chaos, division and insecurity in Germany.

United Kingdom

UK synagogue attacker claimed allegiance to so-called IS, police say

Jihad Al-Shamie was shot dead by police outside the Heaton Park Congregation Synagogue after he rammed a car into pedestrians and attacked them with a knife.

World News

'Antisemitism has become a political tool,' Europe's senior rabbi says

Antisemitic incidents across Europe have hit record levels following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, according to the Chief Rabbi of Europe, who told Euronews that "a high percentage of Jews try to hide their Jewishness in public."

United Kingdom

One victim of UK synagogue attack shot by police, officials say

Police identified the attacker as Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent who entered the United Kingdom as a young child and became a citizen in 2006.

Germany

Alleged Hamas members arrested in Berlin suspected of plotting attacks

Two of the suspects are German citizens and the federal prosecutor's office described the third as being born in Lebanon.

World News

'Nobody can tell me whether I'm wanted or not,' Michel Friedman says

Following his controversial disinvite from an event in East Germany, publicist Michel Friedman is now going on the offensive. In an interview with Euronews, he criticises the decision as a "dangerous signal" and the debate about his fee and expenses as an "anti-Semitic stereotype."

Europe News

EU will step up security of Jews in Europe against antisemitism

The European Commission reacted to fears expressed by more than 100 European rabbis of a “mass exodus of European Jews,” following recent unprecedented acts of antisemitic violence in Europe.

Germany

Ban on Jews entering Flensburg shop sparks nationwide outrage

Local politicians have strongly condemned the incident, while the anti-Semitism commissioner Felix Klein called it "antisemitism in its purest form."

World News

Euroviews. Two years after 7 October, Europe must face its antisemitism crisis

The question before Europe today is stark: will we act decisively to confront antisemitism, or will we look back one day and recognise, too late, another missed warning, Dr Moshe Kantor writes in a Euronews exclusive.

Belgium

Commission says Ghent Festival ‘wrong’ to cancel Israeli conductor

Ghent Festival controversially dropped a concert scheduled for next week because the Israeli conductor had not clarified his position on the Israeli government.

World News

Holocaust memorial in Lyon vandalised with 'Free Gaza' inscription

The three-metre tall memorial was only inaugurated in January to mark 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.

Australia

Australia expels Iran ambassador over antisemitic attack accusations

The Australian government has cut diplomatic ties with Tehran and expelled its ambassador amid accusations the country organised two antisemitic attacks.

France

US ambassador summoned after criticising France over antisemitism

Charles Kushner accused the French government of not doing enough to tackle the hate crime.