Police launched an investigation Monday into the vandalism of Jewish centers and synagogues in the Montreal area over the weekend.

French extreme right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen handed control of his party to his daughter Sunday with a parting shot that maintained his reputation for controversy, joking about a Jewish reporter's nose.

Almost all in their 40s, a new generation of extreme-right political leaders are taking root across a fortress-Europe hunkering down to foreigner-phobia, analysts say.

A skinhead group which may have planned additional racial crimes

Simon Wiesenthal Center denounces Arab commentators for alleging in column that Jews 'invented a religion to steal a land from its owners'. Jewish group: Apparently, 3,000 year-old Torah no longer respected in eyes of Israel-haters

A Swedish neo-Nazi leader who organized the theft of the ''Arbeit Macht Frei” sign from Auschwitz was sentenced to nearly three years in prison.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in New York has urged the Polish government to take swift action in response to an anti-Semitic attack on a home belonging to the director of a Jewish-themed theater in Lublin, eastern Poland.

The Greek government on Thursday condemned as ''hate language'' televised comments by a prominent Greek Orthodox bishop that world Zionism is trying to destroy nations and that Jewish capital had bankrolled Adolf Hitler.

The Greek government condemned a high-level Orthodox priest for making anti-Semitic statements during a television interview.

Crimes against Jews rose by 50 percent in Los Angeles County in 2009 amid a 21 percent overall decrease in hate crimes there.