WASHINGTON - A rise in the number of Muslims in Western Europe, many of them poor and uneducated, is contributing to an increase in already deeply rooted anti-Semitism there, the State Department said in a report to Congress.

France has ordered a satellite television station run by the extremist Hizbollah movement in Lebanon to be banned from the French airwaves by tomorrow for promoting the hatred of Jews.

Australia's peak Jewish body has denounced perpetrators of attacks on Jews as "bullies and cowards" as a report showed such attacks have increased substantially in recent years.

PARIS -- A Jewish group said Sunday it plans to ''modify'' its publicity campaign to fight anti-Semitism that showed an image of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary with the slur ''Dirty Jew'' scrawled across it to mimic graffiti after it drew negative reactions.

Disaffected youth and marginalized individuals are more likely to perpetrate anti-Semitic attacks than those with ties to the Palestinian cause or neo-Nazi groups, as Jewish groups have charged, according to an anti-Semitism report France released Tuesday.

An Edmonton man facing a hate-crimes charge stemming from postings on his website claims he is linked with extraterrestrials seeking a new world economic order. Reinhard Mueller, 61 - charged with wilfully promoting hatred against Jewish people via the Internet - was in provincial court yesterday for a bail review.

France is reeling from the shock of yet another display of anti-Semitism after vandals desecrated a Jewish cemetery in Lyon on Monday night.

NEW YORK - Arab states at the United Nations are trying to foil a proposal to raise a vote condemning anti-Semitism in the General Assembly this September.

MINSK - A leading Jewish group in Belarus on Saturday accused the government of turning a blind eye to a rising tide of anti-Semitism in the ex-Soviet republic.

PARIS (AFP) - The Israeli government said Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had been misunderstood in his call to French Jews to leave immediately and move to Israel, a spokesman told French radio.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has urged all French Jews to move to Israel immediately to escape anti-Semitism.

PARIS, July 13 — A Frenchwoman whose report of an anti-Semitic attack on Friday had transfixed the nation admitted today that she had made up the story, the police said. The admission came after the police began to publicly express doubts about her story.

Chirac Denounces Mounting Racial Violence

PARIS - At least 9,000 people marched in eastern Paris on Sunday to denounce a recent increase in anti-Semitic acts in France.

VIENNA, Austria - Plans to name a Vienna square after Zionist Theodor Herzl drew protest Tuesday from the Arab League, which urged city fathers to reconsider for the sake of continued "good relations" with the Arab world.

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