Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid says new report calling Israel an “apartheid state” shows that Amnesty is “another radical organization that echoes propaganda with no serious examination. Instead of seeking facts, Amnesty quotes lies spread by terrorist organizations. Read more » »

Since January 1, France took over the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union, as presidential elections are to be held in the country in April. This gives French President Emmanuel Macron the opportunity of being considered as the leader of the 27-nation EU. Read more » »

French controversial columnist and polemicist Eric Zemmour drew a parallel between Mohamed Merah, the Islamist terrorist who killed three Jewish children and a teacher in the Ozar Hatorah school in 2012, and his victims, who were all buried abroad, in Algeria and Israel. Read more » »

Several international Jewish organizations have published a set of recommendations to combat antisemitism and foster Jewish life in Europe. The document was presented this week to the European Commission ahead of the Commission’s publication of a first ever strategy to combat anti-Jewish bigotry announced last December. Read more » »

A French political leader stirred controversy by evoking ‘’the emotion of the Jewish community’’ rather than using the words ‘’national community’’ when he spoke about the decision of France’s Supreme Court to upheld an earlier ruling that the man who killed Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old Jewish woman, in her Paris flat in 2017, will not stand trial. Read more » »

By Larry Brook, JNS While most of the country is dealing with the hangover from the highly divisive 2020 presidential election, aside from recounts and accusations of election fraud, the intensity has continued in Georgia as a massively important runoff election will take place on Jan. 5. Read more » »