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Poland will seek the arrest and extradition of a Minnesota man after confirming he was a Nazi unit commander suspected of ordering the killing of 44 Poles during World War II, a prosecutor said Monday.

TEL AVIV – A U.S.-based anti-Semitism watchdog is calling on the German government to suspend a new deal funding Palestinian Authority sports agencies until they stop their “blatant sanctification of Jew-killers” by naming tournaments after terrorists.

TEL AVIV – A prominent U.S.-based Jewish human rights group slammed Amazon Germany’s promotion of a book entitled “The Rothschilds: A Family that Controls the World” as an “outrage.”

The first ever Orthodox rabbi to recite a benediction at a US presidential inauguration said that his quoting a Psalm about the longing of the Jewish people to return to Jerusalem was “absolutely intentional.”

Some of the past year’s worst antisemitic activities took place at British and Canadian universities, according to a new report, released by a prominent international Jewish human-rights organization.

A leading US-based Jewish human rights group has called on the Qatari government to remove antisemitic titles from an international book fair currently taking place in the Gulf state’s capital.

Sony Music and the producer behind a Japanese girl band that performed in military-style costumes resembling Nazi uniforms apologised on Tuesday following a protest lodged by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

On Saturday afternoon, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed an historic anti-boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) bill, Assembly Bill 2844, into law, effectively barring companies that engage in discrimination against any sovereign state — including the Jewish state of Israel — from doing business with the Golden State.

The Times of Israel reports: A new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s famous play Romeo and Juliet was denounced by the Simon Wiesenthal Center for its perceived “Israel-bashing.”

NEW YORK CITY – A pastor for the Lutheran Church in Bremen, Germany who boasted that he is an anti-Semite has prompted the Simon Wiesenthal Center to call for his dismissal.

Pro-Israel groups slammed CNN over a headline which failed to mention that a bus explosion in Jerusalem was a terrorist attack.

The Israel-based Simon Wiesenthal Center urged Croatia’s government to dismiss its culture minister, saying he took a disdainful attitude toward Croatian resistance to fascism during World War Two. The Jewish human rights group expressed “shock and indignation at several actions

TEL AVIV – An article in the largest German broadsheet Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) mimicked Nazi rhetoric by blaming Israel for Palestinian terrorism, the Jerusalem Post reported. Titled “Israel suffers for its cycle of revenge,” the article quoted Said Zidani, a

The Jerusalem Post reports: The Simon Wiesenthal  Center on Friday called on US President Barak Obama to convene a summit on anti-Semitism during a press conference as the center unveiled its annual Top Ten Anti-Semitic/Anti-Israel Incidents of the year for 2015.

LOS ANGELES, California — Two head rabbis at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles issued a joint statement condemning the nuclear accord between Iran and the P5+1, invoking history to remind Western leaders that they are repeating the mistakes of the past in trusting the tyrannical Iranian regime.

On Tuesday, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish rights organization, released a list of anti-Semitic acts that occurred last year in the Midwest.