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WJC ANALYSIS – After Obama’s re-election, what’s next for the Palestinians?

12 Nov 2012 The re-election of Barack Obama begs the question whether, as he had done in his first term, the US president would focus his attention on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While the resolution of the conflict was high on the administration’s agenda four years ago, that is no longer the case.  read more »

Finnish Jews advised not to wear yarmulke in public

12 Nov 2012 An officer of Finland’s Jewish community’s security organization has advised Jews to avoid wearing Jewish headgear in public for fear of anti-Semitic attacks.  read more »

Over 500 rabbis urge Cuba to release Gross – JTA, USA

12 Nov 2012 More than 500 rabbis urged the release of Alan Gross, the US government contractor incarcerated in Cuba for illegally providing support to the local Jewish community. read more »

Police: Neo-Nazis vandalized German Holocaust memorials – JTA, USA

12 Nov 2012 Neo-Nazis are behind the destruction of 11 „stumbling blocks”, say police in the German city of Greifswald. The vandalism in the eastern Germany city was discovered 9 November, the 74th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom against Jews. read more »

Abbas tells Obama he’ll seek Palestinian UN upgrade, defying US – Reuters, UK

12 Nov 2012 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told President Barack Obama he was intent on pressing ahead with a Palestinian bid for United Nations recognition as a non-member state, despite the US president’s objections. read more »

Jewish official met with Marine Le Pen ‘to prepare tv report on the extreme right’ – European Jewish Press

12 Nov 2012 A Jewish official who met earlier this week in Brussels with French far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen said the meeting was mainly intended to prepare a television report on the extreme right parties in Europe.  read more »