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UEFA punish German football club after fans perform Nazi salutes and shout antisemitic abuse during match with Israeli team

Polish referee responds to anti-racism event invitation with e-mail ranting about Jewish people

French President inaugurates Dreyfus affair museum in Paris

Trial of two men accused of stabbing Holocaust survivor to death begins in France

Former secretary at Nazi concentration camp goes on trial for murder

Concerns raised over Slovenian Prime Minister’s “Soros puppets” tweet

“Holocaust was a scam” projected onto Swedish synagogue, neo-Nazi group take credit

Ireland to criminalise Holocaust denial

Deputy Chairperson in Irish Parliament reportedly claims Israel is trying to accomplish “Jewish supremacy”

World leaders speaking at Sweden conference call for stricter measures against antisemitism and Holocaust denial

Neo-Nazi’s ashes “mistakenly” buried on plot of Jewish musicologist

Candidate for Mayor of Rome faces backlash after saying Jews “control banks and a lobby capable of deciding the fate of the planet”

“A cosmopolitan enjoying state benefits to fatten himself up and live in two countries, to make money here and spend it there,” says Belarus state TV about murdered Jewish dissident

Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to meet British ambassador after right-wing author accused of antisemitism was denied entry into UK

Auschwitz-Birkenau site defaced with Holocaust denial graffiti

Teenage actor who played role of antisemitic bully in a film is now suspected of the real-life assault of 60-year-old Hamburg man

Ukraine bans “antisemitism and its manifestations”

Madrid adopts International Definition of Antisemitism

“Hitler forgot to exterminate you”: French courts give defendants convicted of antisemitic harassment suspended sentences

60-year-old assaulted at vigil against antisemitism in Hamburg

“Filthy beast” of antisemitism condemned by French education unions

French court acquits Imam of incitement over sermon declaring “Judgement Day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews”

Antisemitic books sold outside Warsaw Church during beatification ceremony of revered Catholic figures in presence of Polish leaders

Attempted Islamist terrorist attack on German synagogue on Yom Kippur thwarted, two years after deadly far-right attack in Halle

Pope condemns antisemitism in visits to Hungary and Slovakia

For the second time in under a month, vandals desecrate Jewish cemetery in Ioannina, Greece

Slovakia apologises for imposing antisemitic laws during the Second World War

Israeli tourist assaulted and hospitalised in Pisa, Italy after being told Jews “were killers”

Head of UNRWA grilled over alleged antisemitism and incitement to Jihad in textbooks

Austria records its highest number of antisemitic incidents in last twenty years

Harry Kane suffers antisemitic abuse while black England players also on receiving end of racist chanting at qualifier match in Hungary

Hours after coming under fire, Greece’s new Health Minister apologises for inflammatory Auschwitz comment from 2009

“Jewish Monkey” graffiti scrawled across bust of Italian anti-fascist

Founder of French far-right party faces trial after being charged with inciting antisemitic hatred

Greece’s new Health Minister comes under fire for inflammatory Auschwitz comment from 2009

Jewish hotel manager abused and assaulted in Italian lake resort

Controversial Warsaw art exhibition features artist previously jailed for placing swastikas at Jewish community centre

Spanish university cancels course comparing Auschwitz to Gaza

Historic Bulgarian synagogue vandalised with swastika and neo-Nazi “1488” graffiti

Monument for Holocaust victims in Poland defaced with graffiti praising Hitler

Jewish teenager hospitalised with broken bones after being attacked for wearing skullcap in Germany

Repatriation for French Jew who claimed he received antisemitic abuse in Turkish prison

Antisemitic protest signs prompt hate speech investigations in France

68-year-old man arrested for painting swastika outside of synagogue in Spain

Pro-Nazi French website off-line after Interior Minister threatens to prosecute

Memorial to Holocaust survivor Simone Veil vandalised with swastikas in France

“Jews should be killed” said Norwegian imam in Facebook posts

Jewish grave vandalised in Ioannina, Greece

Pig skulls used to desecrate grave of Rabbi Nachman’s daughter in Ukraine

Germany pays €35 million to combat antisemitism

EU condemned for diplomat’s appearance alongside leaders of proscribed antisemitic genocidal terrorist groups Hamas, Hizballah and Islamic Jihad at inauguration of hardline Iranian President

German army appoints first military rabbi since Nazi era

Antisemitic mural of Dutch footballer Steven Berghuis investigated by police

Russian police fake murder of rabbi to catch members of USSR fringe group

French President Emmanuel Macron sues billboard owner over comparisons to Hitler

“Jews are behind the pandemic” chanted at anti-vaccine rally in Poland

Model loses contracts after video emerges of her espousing antisemitic and homophobic views

Community of Sant’Egidio becomes first Catholic movement to adopt International Definition of Antisemitism

Neo-Nazi biker gang’s weapons seized in police raid in Austria

Dieudonné fined by Swiss courts for Holocaust denial sketch just days after being handed prison sentence in France

Blowtorch used to engrave swastikas into Holocaust memorial in France

Far-right Bulgarian candidate condemned after praising Hitler and denying the Holocaust in TV interview

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says that whole world “bows to Jews” because of the Holocaust

Dieudonné sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for videos of an “antisemitic nature”

Polish ultranationalists given prison sentences for chants about hanging Zionists at rally

Antisemitic graffiti spray-painted onto side of building in German village

Fugitive deputy leader of neo-Nazi organisation Golden Dawn arrested in Greece

Police identify minors suspected of vandalising synagogue in Romania

Antisemitism increases in Germany with 1,909 reported incidents in 2020

Children in Poland destroyed Jewish gravestones to “build a fortress”

Austrian solider imprisoned for sharing photos of swastika tattoo online

Trial begins in Paris for gang accused of beating and robbing Jewish family in their own home

Germany bans Hamas flag after rise in antisemitic incidents

French ex-general accused of spouting antisemitic rhetoric on live TV now under investigation

German soldiers who sang antisemitic and racist songs to be “vigorously prosecuted and punished”

Krakow bans sale of antisemitic figurines depicting Orthodox Jews holding coins

Torah ark desecrated with swastika graffiti in Frankfurt airport

EU reportedly tries to suppress report that shows antisemitism rife in EU-funded Palestinian Authority textbooks

Call for heightened security after Béziers Jews receive death threats and antisemitic abuse

Fratelli d’Italia member posts inflammatory graphic of Jewish Chamber of Deputies member

Czech Republic sees rise in online antisemitism

French President Emmanuel Macron assaulted on camera by members of public who allegedly had weapons and copy of Mein Kampf at home

French President Emmanuel Macron condemns antisemitism in historic address

Far-left French Presidential candidate says antisemitic murder of four Jews was “planned in advance” to encourage anti-Muslim sentiment

Police arrest Italian neo-Nazis who allegedly called for attacks on Jews and plotted to bomb NATO site

French parliamentary commission to investigate antisemitic murder of Sarah Halimi

German police begin hunt for masked suspect in synagogue arson incident

Synagogue shot at and Holocaust mass grave raided in Ukraine

Antisemitic flyer appears in Livorno after city council adopts International Definition of Antisemitism

Antisemitic chants extolling massacre of Jews heard at Vienna protests

Police detain over a dozen men in Germany after synagogues targeted in widespread antisemitic protests

Politicians ban “disgusting antisemitic” Al Quds event in Berlin

Antisemitic flyer found in German tram blames Jews for COVID-19 pandemic

European Liberal Youth adopts International Definition of Antisemitism

“Je Suis Sarah Halimi”: CAA holds rally in solidarity with French Jews over Sarah Halimi verdict outside the French Embassy

Mixed messages on whether French prisoner subjected to antisemitic harassment in Turkish prison may be repatriated

Lawyers for sister of Sarah Halimi announce lawsuit under Israeli law to convict antisemitic murderer after French court rules he cannot be held responsible

In disgraceful decision, French Court of Cassation deems Sarah Halimi’s killer not fit to stand trial because he was high at the time of antisemitic murder

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