The United Nations Human Rights Council passed three resolutions that condemn Israel and another seeking reparations for Gaza Palestinians.\n
The student government president at the University of California vetoed a bill calling for divestment from two companies doing business with Israel.\n\nWill Smelko, the president of the Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley, shot down the bill Wednesday, the Daily Californian reported. The association\’s Senate had passed the bill last week by a 16-4 margin.
The radical far-right Jobbik party is poised to emerge in next month\’s elections in Hungary as a potent force in Parliament, and the prospect is ringing alarm bells in Central Europe\’s largest Jewish community.\n\n\”It\’s scary,\” said Vera Szekeres-Varsa, a Holocaust survivor and former chair of the Hungarian branch of Amnesty International. \”It\’s not like 60 or 70 years ago, but it\’s still scary.\”
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A second suspect in an alleged hate crime attack against a Jewish man in Eugene, Ore., has turned himself in.
A court in Chicago has ruled that a father may not take his Jewish daughter to Catholic Mass on Easter.\n\nJoseph Reyes grabbed headlines when he took his daughter to church and had her baptized despite a temporary restraining order filed by his estranged wife that bars him from exposing their daughter to anything but the Jewish faith.
Several sketches by Adolf Hitler, including those he submitted to the Vienna Academy of Art in a failed bid to gain entrance, will be auctioned off.\n
Two Israeli soldiers are on trial for allegedly using a Palestinian boy as a human shield during the Gaza war.
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