Daily News Update – WJC condemns Halamish terror attack, demands PA take immediate measures to curb incitement

WJC condemns Halamish terror attack, demands PA take immediate measures to curb incitement“We demand that the Palestinian Authority take immediate measures to crack down on the incitement that led to this attack and make every effort to prevent such an atrocity from happening again.”

German Jewish leader says anti-Semitism increasing24 Jul 2017 „In some districts in major cities, I’d advise people not to identify themselves as Jews,” Josef Schuster said in an interview with Bild am Sonntag cited by Deutsche Welle. „Experience has shown that openly wearing a kippa or a necklace with the Star of David is enough to attract verbal or physical threats.” READ MORE »

Libyan Jews concerned over fate of country’s Jewish artifacts24 Jul 2017 Speaking with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Gina Waldman, who runs the Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa (JIMENA) advocacy organization, said that such a policy is „very, very offensive to the Jewish community…when the very government itself has destroyed every single synagogue, every single cemetery.” READ MORE »

Two Jordanians killed, Israeli wounded in attack on Israeli embassy in Amman24 Jul 2017 Assailant Mohammed Zakaria al-Jawawdeh, 17, attacked the unnamed guard with a screwdriver as he moved furniture through the closed diplomatic compound. The guard opened fire in self-defense, killing his assailant and the owner of the compound. READ MORE »

Jewish experience in rebuilding after Holocaust gives hope to Yazidi survivors24 Jul 2017 According to Nadia Murad, who escaped from ISIS sex slavery to become a UN goodwill ambassador, many of her people believe that Israelis will „understand our case more than anybody else.” READ MORE »

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