The Christians of Egypt face difficult times after the election to the People's Assembly of Egypt from 28 November, 2011 to 11 January, 2012, when 70% of the seats went to Islamist Parties.

Yasser Burhami, head of the influential El-Dawa El-Salafiya (Salafist Call) group, has given some idea of where the country is heading. He has declared that Copts do not have the right to run for political office in Egypt. We will not permit an infidel [kafir] to be appointed to a post where he assumes authority over Muslims. This is forbidden. Allah said: “Never will Allah grant to infidels a way [to triumph] over the believers [Koran 4:141].”

A one-sided war in Nigeria is being portrayed by the world press as a conflict between tribal groups. The truth is that a militant Islamic group is killing Christians and destroying churches with the objective of making Nigeria into an Islamic State.

The latest terrorist acts were on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2011 when three Christian Churches were bombed. The highest casualties were at St Theresa Roman Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger State, where 44 people were killed by the bomb blast, out of which, 26 were parishioners, 3 were policemen on guard duty, and another 73 were hospitalized. Madalla is a satellite town of the country’s capital Abuja located 40 km (25 mi) from the city center.

Rotem Singer, a 23-year-old Israeli tourist, was accused of starting a forest fire. His arrest triggered an avalanche of anti-Semitic sentiments.

The Swiss parliament declared on December 28, 2011 that a commission established in 2004 had finished the process of rehabilitating 137 people punished during World War II for having helped Jews escape Nazi persecution, ending seven years of historical research to redress what it now considers a “serious injustice.” The rehabilitation amounted to official recognition that their actions were right and proper. It did not include any compensation.

A committee of historians concluded in 2001 that the policy pursued by the Swiss between 1933, when Hitler came to power in Germany, and 1945, when he was finally defeated by the Allied forces, had been "excessively restrictive." The Swiss parliament adopted the rehabilitation law in 2004 as a result, setting up a commission to investigate the injustice done to people in Switzerland who took it upon themselves to help Jews escape Nazi persecution.

The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest and best-organized political party, on Nov. 25, 2011 held a rally at the al Azhar mosque in Cairo. The rally turned into one of the most venomous anti-Semitic rallies in recent times. Eldad Beck, Ynet’s Arab affairs correspondent, reported that about 5,000 joined the rally and made a call for genocide with repeated vows to “one day kill all the Jews.”

Oceane Sluijzer, a13-year-old Jewish girl, was beaten by five female classmates of Moroccan origin on Nov. 18, 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. Following an altercation at a sport training centre, Oceane was beaten by the girls who also shouted: 'Shut up, you dirty Jew, and return to your country'. Then they just left her there, at the sports center, not far from the school, while those who witnessed the incident quickly ran away.

A story about Irish anti-Semitism was published in Israel’s top-selling newspaper Yediot Aharonot on Nov. 16, 2011, which quoted an unnamed official at the Israel Foreign Ministry as claiming that the Irish administration was “feeding its people with anti-Israel hatred. What we are seeing here is clear anti-Semitism." Ireland had undoubtedly become the most hostile country to Israel in the European Union, "pushing all of Europe's countries to a radical and uncompromising approach."

This statement was immediately rejected by a spokesman for the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs who said: “The Government is critical of Israeli policies in the occupied Palestinian territories. It is not hostile to Israel and it is clearly wrong to suggest as much,” he said. “The notion that this Government is or would be trying to stoke up anti-Israeli feeling is untrue. We are not hostile to Israel. We are critical of policies, particularly in the occupied Palestinian territories. These are not the same things.”

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.

The Town of Hampstead, with a population of over 7,000, is a town in southwestern Quebec, Canada, on the Island of Montreal. It has a bylaw that forbids excessive noise on days “when most residents are not working and want peace and tranquility. These days include Labour Day, Canada Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, and Christmas. It recently added Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur to the list, creating controversy in Quebec. Hampstead’s population is roughly 85 per cent Jewish.

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.

Alaa Alsaegh wrote an Arabic-language poem, “Tears at the Heart of the Holocaust,” featured on the “Arabs For Israel” blog. The site is run by Arabs and Muslims who believe they can “support Israel and still support the Palestinian people.... support the State of Israel and the Jewish religion and still treasure our Arab and Islamic culture.”

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.

David Gerbi, a Jungian psychotherapist in his late 50s, who was born in Tripoli but went at age 12 into exile in Italy after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war spurred attacks on Tripoli Jews. Gerbi had traveled a number of times back to Libya over the past 10 years, driven by a desire to restore the two-millenniumold Jewish-Libyan heritage and return to his erstwhile home as a free citizen..

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 Hassidim were met this year by representatives of the Svoboda All-Ukrainian Union who hung banners and chanted slogans against the Hasidic pilgrims.vLarge posters depicted an “alien-like” Jewish figure behind the universal “unwanted” symbol. About 300 supporters of the nationalist party Svoboda, or Liberty, demanded that Hasidic Jews not be allowed to gather in the town of Uman, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) south of the capital. The protesters at the rally shouted "Ukraine for Ukrainians." A court had ordered the activists ahead of time not to stage the demonstration.

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.

The German fund "Memory, Responsibility and Future" was established 11 years ago to compensate Nazi victims who were subjected to forced labor during World War II. But a booklet including anti-Semitic propaganda and drawings was sponsored by the fund and prepared at the end of a student exchange program between high school students from Nazareth and students from an eastern German city.

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.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said "After careful consideration, I have decided that Britian will not attend the UN meeting in Durban which is supposed to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the World Conference on Racism.”

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.

This year marks the 500th anniversary of the first Auto-de-Fe in Sicily, when the Inquisition executed nine Marranos in Palermo in June 1511 for secretly practicing Judaism.

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.

One might assume this decision shows that the Dutch are acting to fight hatred. But this one action could be quite misleading. This was a decision that was acceptable to the Dutch Liberal Establishment since it supports their negative attitudes towards Football Hooligans.

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:

13,000 Jewish-American soldiers participated in the 2003 invasion of Iraq in order to grab 2,600 year-old Jewish artifacts from Babylon, smuggle them to Israel, and place them under the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, in a plot to have unwitting archeologists ‘discover’ them there and thus prove that the mosque sits on the site of the ancient Jewish temple. A movie deal could be only a matter of time