Giulio Meotti brings our attention to the obsession in current anti-Semitism with the concept of Jews as the chosen people.

In a ynetnew.com article, he describes the malignant use of the expression “chosen Jews” in the latest attacks on Israel made by secular intellectuals, archbishops, mainstream journalists and European politicians.

A change in a nuisance by-law of the town of Hampstead resulted in expressions of hatred against Jews. There are those who might explain this phenomenon as due to Quebec being a pit of hatred against Jews. But the actual facts regarding the situation of Jews in Quebec raise another possibility: the reactions reflect more the reality of separation than active anti-Semitism.

Alaa Alsaegh, an Iraqi poet who immigrated to St. Louis and converted from Islam to Christianity, has paid the price for supporting Jews and Israel. He was pulled out of his car and a Star of David carved on his back. Even more disappointing, the incident has been totally ignored by the mainstream media.

With the change of government in Libya, there was hope that Jews would again find a place in the country. But unfortunately, there have arisen signs of continued hatred against Jews. David Gerbi attempted to clean a long-shuttered synagogue but only to find its doors locked once more.

Tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews from around the world flock to the city of Uman in southern Ukraine every year to celebrate Rosh Hashanah - the start of a new year in the Jewish calendar - at the grave of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, the founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement.

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reports that the resources of a Nazi forced labor compensation fund are being used to finance anti-Israel activities, some of which are clearly anti-Semitic.

Britain will not attend an event marking the tenth anniversary of a UN anti-racism conference, known as "Durban III" later this month in New York. In doing this, Britain joins the United States, Israel, Canada, Germany, Australia, Austria, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Italy and The Netherlands in their decision not to attend the conference. The conference was meant to combat global racism but it was reduced to an anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hate fest.

A recent study of school textbooks in Saudi Arabia for the years 2010-2011 by the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom reveals a pattern of extreme anti-Semitism. Despite a promise to the USA in July of 2006 to undertake a program of textbook reform by eliminating all passages that disparage or promote hatred toward any religion or religious groups,” the report finds that “the encouragement of violence and extremism remains an integral part of Saudi Arabia’s national textbooks. As before, there continues to be a great preoccupation throughout the texts with Jews and with Israel. Rank anti-Semitism saturates the curriculum. Repeatedly, Jews are demonized, dehumanized, and targeted for violence.”

Dozens of Marranos (known in Hebrew as Bnei Anousim) in southern Italy and Sicily have gathered for a seminar to return to their roots. They and other people of Jewish descent from across the region gathered Tuesday and Wednesday in the city of Syracuse to explore their Jewish heritage. Participants came from across Sicily, as well as the southern Italian regions of Puglia and Calabria.

In a recent action (August 2011), a court in the The Hague censured ADO Den Haag, a Football (soccer) club that failed to stop anti-Semitic chanting at a home match against Amsterdam club Ajax in March. The case was presented to the court by an organization that fights anti-Semitism after club supporters chanted de Joden (English: the Jews) at Ajax players.

A number of European countries have laws that prohibit certain Jewish religious practices: for instance, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland ban ritual slaughter. Recently, on June 29, 2011, a vote was taken in the Dutch parliament to join this ban on ritual slaughter of animals. The bill by the small Animal Rights Party passed the lower house of parliament by 116 votes to 30. It must still be approved by the upper house before becoming law. The only opposition to the new law came from the country’s Christian political parties.

A distinguished Lithuanian historian, Professor Liudas Truska, has criticized ongoing Holocaust ignorance and whitewashing in his country, which seeks to glorify resistance to Communism while ignoring the Holocaust and complicity in the murder of its Jewish citizens.

A leader of Egypt’s largest liberal party has disclosed a new Jewish conspiracy so original and unique that it has never been charted before by anti-Semitism aficionados:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday made new Holocaust denial comments and Jewish conspiracy accusations. During his keynote address to the opening session of the "International Conference on Global Fight against Terrorism" in Tehran, the Iranian leader said that "opening the black boxes of the 9/11 attacks and Holocaust incidents would help reveal facts about the two major events which have paved the ground for big powers' colonialism and terrorism. "

Thousands of Jews flock every year to the final resting place of Rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira, a famous Moroccan Rabbi of the 19th century who fell ill and died in the village as he was travelling with his family back to the holy land. For years the locals have been trying to ban the commemoration and evict the body. In post-revolution Egypt they may get their wish of keeping their village Judenrein

Having given up on attempts to extradite Klaas Faber, a convicted mass murderer who has been sheltered by Germany for 60 years, the Netherlands Justice Minister this week demanded that the Dutch SS officer be imprisoned in a German jail for the rest of his life.

The Ukrainian concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk on Thursday was convicted of mass murders during World War II and sent to five years in prison. The Munich District Court has ruled that the 91-year-old was involved in the killing of at least 27,900 Jews in Sobibor.

A fire broke out early Tuesday (3:30 local time) in the Jewish synagogue in the Greek island of Corfu. Four firefighting vehicles immediately rushed to the site and put the fire under control, but the fire burned antique books and other historical relics of great value (dating back more than 400 years ago), which the attackers had piled up and set ablaze in the center of the hall.

Increasingly confident Islamists in post-revolution Tunisia have been inciting more openly to violence against Jews. Jewish community president Roger Bismuth, who earlier denied any threat, has now met the Prime Minister and requested protection for his community.

In a recent interview to Malaysia’s New Straits Times newspaper, British anti-Occupation/BDS/Palestine activist Lauren Booth exemplified the manner in which the anti-Israel movement has increasingly come to accept virulent anti-Semitism as part of its attack on the Jewish state. She also gave Malaysians a simple message: say what you want, and if anyone accuses you of Anti-Semitism, just deny it.