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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel had “lost one of its greatest friends” as he led an outpouring of tributes from across Israel’s political spectrum following the sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

Spanish researchers have claimed that DNA and other analyses indicate that Christopher Columbus likely came from a Jewish family in Spain.

In an exclusive statement provided to Breitbart News, Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R) questioned whether President Joe Biden and Democrats would stop using ActBlue after a report found that the fundraising platform took portions of donations to an anti-Israel encampment at Michigan State University (MSU).

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) head Morton Klein expressed support for tech titan Elon Musk’s “concerns” after the outspoken billionaire threatened a “defamation” lawsuit against the left-wing Anti-Defamation League (ADL) over its alleged censorship efforts, with the ZOA claiming the ADL is “dangerous” to both Jews and Israel.

London’s busiest shopping street bore witness to what has been described as “disturbing” and “disgusting” antisemitic abuse of Jewish teens celebrating Hannukah this week, prompting messages of condemnation from British political leaders.

Shmuley Boteach, rabbi and author of Kosher Hate: How To Fight Jew-Hatred, Racism, and Bigotry, described the continuity of Jewish people as proof of the divine hand in an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

BERLIN (AP) – Berlin’s police chief apologized on Monday for an incident in which officers were pictured practising push-ups on a part of the German capital’s memorial to the 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust.

Four men have been arrested by London’s Metropolitan Police after footage emerged on social media which appeared to show a motorcade of anti-Israel activists calling for the rape of Jewish people’s daughters.

(AFP) — Supporters of a Lebanese-Canadian academic who is the only known suspect in a 1980 Paris bombing urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday not to allow him to be extradited a second time, as France’s top court weighs in on the case.

A judge has turned in his judicial robes in protest at the decision not to try a Malian migrant alleged to have beaten an elderly Jewish woman and thrown her to her death from a balcony while shouting “Allah Akbar!” on grounds that he was suffering from a delirious episode induced by heavy cannabis abuse. 

PARIS (AP) – Police in the French city of Marseille detained a man Friday who was wielding a knife outside a Jewish school and kosher market. Surveillance of Jewish sites in the city has been increased while they investigate his motives, according to local authorities.

Leaks suggest Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party is not dealing with complaints of endemic antisemitism as it claims, as the Simon Wiesenthal Centre puts the party at the top of its antisemitism list.

Pope Francis denounced anti-Semitism Wednesday, telling crowds in Saint Peter’s Square that the persecution of the Jewish people is neither human nor Christian.

The President of the British Pakistani Youth Council (BPYC) has come under fire for comments made in a series of Facebook posts from 2014 in which he praised Adolf Hitler for killing Jews.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach praised Breitbart News as a “friend of the Jewish people” in fighting antisemitism and supporting Jewish self-determination in Israel, offering his remarks in a Thursday-aired interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

The Catholic bishop of Bridgeport, CT, has condemned anti-Semitism in the strongest of terms, following the discovery of a swastika painted on the door of his cathedral.

The Holocaust was fueled by hate but was made possible by indifference, Pope Francis said Monday in an address at the Vatican.

“Fake history” and “big lies” are key weapons used to attack and discredit America’s close ally Israel and to incite hatred and violence against Jews throughout the world.

The Austrian National Union of Students on Friday condemned the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement against Israel as antisemitic, and urged for it to not be given funds or event space.

The High Court of Justice on Wednesday ruled in favor of Tel Aviv’s battle to expand facilities open to the secular public on Shabbat, saying that the municipality can permit mini-markets to operate on the Jewish day of rest.

Whatever one feels about President Donald Trump’s temporary refugee ban – and I personally hope the President will quickly complete his vetting review and begin admitting refugees again so as to save lives – the hypocrisy of his critics is startling. None more so than President Obama himself.

Every nation has the right to distinguish, by country of origin, who can migrate to it and apply appropriate immigration policies, according to the great medieval scholar and saint Thomas Aquinas.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Prime Minister Netanyahu’s controversial speech to the US Congress last year, an address that strained ties with the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats who viewed it as an affront to the president, has been the highlight so far of Israel Ambassador Ron Dermer’s period in Washington, he told The Jerusalem Post in an interview.

TEL AVIV – Denial of the Jewish connection to Jerusalem has been unequivocally challenged by archeological discoveries, a U.S. congresswoman said on Friday. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), chairwoman of the U.S.’s House Subcommittee on the Middle East & North Africa,