On last day of global Jewish assembly, delegates representing Jewish communities in a hundred countries call for ban on neo-Nazi parties; ''Jobbik party danger to all Hungarians,'' Jewish leader tells 'Post'.
Hannes Swoboda, president of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D) Monday condemned the anti-Semitic demonstrations and tendencies in Hungary, one day afterthe World Jewish Congress opened its plenary assembly in Budapest with a speech of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban calling anti-Semitism today in Hungary ''unacceptable'' but stopping short of censuring the extreme-right anti-Semitic Jobbik party.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle declared that “anti-Semitism has no place neither in Berlin, nor in Budapest, nor anywhere else in Europe or in the world,” in an address to the World Jewish Congress’ (WJC) Plenary Assembly in Budapest.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embarks Sunday for a five-day trip to China as Beijing offered to broker a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas who will visit the country at the same time.
Republican senator says alleged Israeli air strikes will put more pressure on Obama administration to intervene in Syria: ''Every day that goes by, Hezbollah increases their influence and the radical jihadists flow into Syria.''
