Tea Party opponents of Texas State Representative Joe Straus campaigned against his re-election to the position of Speaker of the House by running a smear campaign in which they stressed his Judaism, imputing negative stereotypes based on this, while trumpeting their own candidate’s Christianity and the need to place a ‘true Christian’ in the important post. These messages were sent out in mass emails and in automated phone recordings.

Figures released by the Jewish Agency indicated an increase of 63 percent in the number of Belgian Jews who immigrated to Israel in 2010 when compared to the previous year: 250 compared to 152 in 2009. Key causes include increasingly open anti-Semitism in recent years, and the rise of violent attacks against members of the community, especially its highly-visible ultra-orthodox members.

Iran’s fundamentalist Basij militia has threatened to destroy a Jewish shrine in Hamadan, Iran, long revered as the tomb of the biblical Esther and Mordechai.

 Spanish football giants Barcelona are coming under increasing pressure to cancel their lucrative 170 million euro shirt sponsorship contract with the Qatar Foundation, following claims that the “charitable trust” finances Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. In addition, the Spanish El Mundo newspaper has revealed that the Qatar Foundation has been providing funding to extremist cleric Yusuf al Qaradawi - an advocate of terrorism, wife beating and murderous anti-Semitism.

 Spain has become a haven for anti-Israel lawfare.

Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who makes no secret of his dislike of Zionism, is well known in Spain for his anti-Israel and anti-Jewish outbursts. At a dinner party in the Moncloa Palace (the Spanish White House) in 2005, for example, Zapatero addressed his guests by launching into a tirade of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist rhetoric that ended with the phrase: "It is understandable that someone might justify the Holocaust."

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi drew a rebuke from the Vatican, Jewish leaders and members of the opposition for an anti-Semitic joke he told supporters last week.

Thilo Sarrazin, a board-member of the Bundesbank, the German Central Bank, caused an uproar in Germany yesterday when his comments on the existence of a "Jewish gene" came to light.

Three anti-Semitic incidents occur per day in the United States, an audit by the Anti-Defamation League reports.

The latest Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union (UCSJ) report highlights the persisting problem of anti-Semitic violence in Russia.

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart believes to have found the real reason certain senators oppose Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination: her religion.

The number of anti-Semitic incidents reported in Sweden rose 57 percent last year, the national crime prevention council announced on Thursday.

Just weeks after Turkey decided to boycott a Holocaust education conference in Jerusalem, an Iranian delegation visiting Germany refused to tour the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Amid the continued unraveling of Israeli-Turkish relations, Turkey has boycotted the 7^th International Conference on Holocaust and Remembrance, held earlier this month in Jerusalem.

A Jewish dance team was attacked by a group of stone-throwing youth as young as ten-years-old during a performance at a Hannover festival, police said Thursday.

The Jews are “the filthiest and greatest of criminals, who [only] appear to be human,” said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a speech last week.

In the next fifty years, there will be no more Jews living in Antwerp due to mounting anti-Semitism and unemployment, a Belgian newspaper has reported.

Right-wing extremist National Democratic Party (NPD) leader Holger Apfel is facing a temporary ban from the Saxony state parliament after making anti-Semitic comments on Thursday.

An international human rights organization has called on the European Union’s Foreign Minister to investigate the recent slew of anti-Semitic incidents in the Netherlands.

Jews are the main targets of hate crimes in Canada, with nearly two-thirds of the religiously categorized crimes committed against them, according to Statistics Canada.

The European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) published its fourth report on Poland Tuesday, criticizing the country for making little progress toward fighting anti-Semitism.