* The Independent explores the tightrope walked by Iranian Jews while their president denies the Holocaust.
* The Jerusalem Post reports that Israel is boycotting the EU Conference on Racism, Xenophobia and the Media because the issue of anti-Semitism isn’t on the agenda:
The original description of the conference received in Jerusalem in March said that the two-day seminar, which would be attended by a number of media personalities from Europe and the Arab world, would deal with racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.
However all references to anti-Semitism had been removed from an updated description that the Foreign Ministry received on May 11, while a report on Islamophobia in the press was still on the agenda.
Israeli diplomatic officials said that the decision to eliminate the discussion of anti-Semitism was taken following pressure from Arab countries.
* In a widely quoted interview with CNN‘s Wolf Blitzer, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert explains his government relates to the Iranian threat, and Israel’s reluctance to negotiate with Mahmoud Abbas.
© Divuach Ne’eman R”A, 2025
