"Jews Live In Fear", Says Jewish EU Parliament President

"Yes, Jews are living in fear in Europe. Yes, there are threats," Schulz said. "But, ladies and gentlemen -- why are we not [living in 1929]? Because there is a European Parliament. Because there are common European Institutions. Because a consequence was taken after the Second World War -- after its deepest point of civilization represented by Auschwitz."
Source: JTA

Swiss Holocaust fund returns $1.3bn to Holocaust victims

The 1998 settlement fund was the result of a class-action lawsuit launched in the United States by Holocaust survivors and victims' families alleging that Swiss banks were making it unnecessarily difficult to access dormant accounts by, for instance, requiring death certificates which typically do not exist for Holocaust victims.

Korman noted that the Swiss banks for decades clung to the dormant accounts and had continued deducting fees from them.

"It wasn't just one bank... It was a conspiracy," he told Beobachter.

According to Swiss news agency ATS, more than 452,000 Holocaust victims and their descendants have received compensation through the fund

Source: http://news.ph.msn.com/business/swiss-holocaust-fund-returns-dollar13bn-to-victims-judge-2

On Jews demand, French court orders Twitter to identify racist and anti-Semitic users

Last fall, under pressure from French advocacy group Union of Jewish Students (UEJF), Twitteragreed to remove some offensive tweets. In October 2012, at Berlin’s request, Twitter alsosuspended a German neo-Nazi account based in the city of Hanover, the first time the company had responded to such a government request.

However, at the time, the UEJF also wanted identifying information of the perpetrators, which Twitter was not prepared to give up. So the group went to court to force the issue.

On Thursday, the Grand Instance Court in Paris ordered Twitter to identify the authors of anti-semitic tweets by creating a mechanism (Google Translate) to alert French authorities to “illegal content,” on its French site “in a visible and easily-accessible [way].”

If Twitter does not comply within two weeks, the American company faces fines of €1,000 ($1,336) per day.

Source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/french-court-orders-twitter-to-identify-racist-and-anti-semitic-users/

Belgium admits complicity to Holocaust

Reacting to complaints by Belgian Jews, the country’s Senate has issued a strengthened version of a text recognizing Holocaust-era complicity.

Source: JTA

Jews want more "Nazi war criminals" be found and "prosecuted"

The Simon Wiesenthal Center ranks Germany, Italy and the U.S. as the most successful at investigating and prosecuting Nazi war crimes over the past year.
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Failing grades were given to 11 of 42 countries surveyed, including Australia, Austria, Canada, Estonia and Ukraine, for their lack of indictments or convictions.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/24/report-germany-italy-us-rank-as-most-successful-at-prosecuting-nazi-war/#ixzz2JMCFAvPw

"Irish" Justice Minister Alan Shatter (born to a Jewish family) demands action against "anti-Semitism"

He added, "We must do more to end intolerance, racism and anti-Semitism."

Shatter, who was speaking for the Irish EU presidency at the event, also attended by parliament's president Martin Schulz, said the message should have special significance on the day the world remembered those murdered in Nazi death camps.

Source: TheParlament.com

His solution:

Victims and witnesses should therefore be encouraged to report such crimes, and legislation should be adopted at EU and national levels obliging member states to collect and publish hate-crime data.

Israel lies above UN and its regulations

In an interview with Israeli Channel 2, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threw internationally-recognized boundaries to the wind, saying that the Western Wall, which lies in a part of UN-administered Jerusalem occupied by Israel in 1967, “is not occupied territory” – and that he “does not care” what the United Nations has to say about it.

Source: Russia Today

Superb comment that summarizes the issue:

@KARMA: Why should Netanyahu, his government, his party or Israeli opposition parties give a damn about UN declarations! After all there are no consequences for defying such declarations just as there are no consequences for Israel having Nukes without becoming a member of the IAEA or similar bodies set up to regulate such armaments.  Equally there are no consequences for the use of white Phosphorus in direct attack on Women and Children and other non-combatants in Gaza. 

Israel fears honest Press TV coverage

Israel is exerting pressure on the Western satellite companies to remove Iranian news channels because it fears the truthful coverage of its atrocities, a political analyst says, Press TV reports.

Source: PressTV

France celebrates diversity: 1,193 Cars Torched on New Year's Eve

Hundreds of empty, parked cars go up in flames in France each New Year's Eve, set afire by young revelers, a much lamented tradition that remained intact this year with 1,193 vehicles burned, Interior Minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday.

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/france-counts-1193-cars-torched-years-eve-18108938#.UOUtTOTZaS9