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Britain’s Jewish leadership has made a formal complaint to the Church of England about one of its clergymen, accusing him of producing anti-Semitic material and posting links to anti-Semitic websites on his blog.

France will clamp down on anti-Semitic hate speech online and elsewhere, French President Francois Hollande said at a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“We will relentlessly combat anti-Semitism, also on social networks where haters may have anonymity,” Hollande said at a press conference that he held on Thursday with Netanyahu at the Jewish school in Toulouse where three children and a rabbi were murdered in March.

In his speech, which followed a commemorative ceremony dedicated to the attack's victims, Hollande said that he would promote new legislation against hate speech.

A Canadian miner was charged with a hate crime for anti-Jewish content on his website.

Arthur Topham, 65, of Quesnel in British Columbia, was charged Monday with promoting hatred against an identifiable group on his website, Radical Press. Topham has run the website, described by the local media as anti-Zionist, since 1998.

Germany can bar the animal rights group PETA from comparing the fate of animals today with that of Holocaust victims, Europe's highest court for human rights ruled.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on Thursday upheld a 2009 German Supreme Court ruling that banned People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals from using photos of concentration camp inmates and other images of the Nazi genocide alongside photos of abused animals in its campaign Holocaust on your Plate. PETA has three months to appeal the ruling, according to German news reports.

The Central Council of Jews in Germany, which had fought the PETA campaign since it was launched here in 2004, welcomed the ruling.

The president of Spain’s Jewish community called for changes to the country’s penal code to better combat online anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.

Isaac Querub, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain (FCJE), said at a seminar on anti-Semitism in Barcelona on Thursday that article 510 of the Spanish penal code, which deals with racism, needs to be amended to address hate speech on the Internet.

"The theme of Mr. Tremaine's messages was that Jews, blacks and other non-whites are destroying Canada and they should either be deported or segregated," Justice Sean Harrington said.

Officials from the EJU met with the nationalist leader in Paris last week and discussed a range of issues and concerns affecting the European Jewish Community. Serving MEP Le Pen welcomed the opportunity to enter into a dialogue with the EJU and reaffirmed her commitment to support Israel within European Union structures. She also confirmed that any members of her Front National party who voiced Holocaust denial sentiments would face immediate expulsion from the party.

“A few hundred demonstrators, marching with impunity, cannot hold an entire city hostage,” the Jewish community’s statement said. The marchers, it said, advocated “hatred, discrimination, and ethnic, political and religious intolerance.”

The community called on Italian authorities to block a similar far-right demonstration slated for Nov. 25 that is being organized by groups calling themselves Fascists of the New Millennium.