The Ontario wing of Canada's largest union has voted to join an international boycott campaign against Israel "until that state recognizes the Palestinian right to self-determination."

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And in Toronto today...A walk along the lakefront to raise funds and celebrate Israel’s accomplishments turned nasty and police carted away marchers and protesters after the two groups clashed. About 30 protesters wearing black stood defiantly against the annual Walk With Israel fundraiser. The group’s spokesman, Abbie Bakan of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), questioned what is being celebrated by the United Jewish Appeal Federation’s event.

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The National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education, Britain's biggest union of college teachers, is to vote Monday on a resolution enjoining its 67,000 members to boycott Israeli colleagues who do not distance themselves from what it calls Israel's "apartheid policies."

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French police opened an investigation Monday after suspected members of an extremist group marched through a Jewish quarter in central Paris shouting anti-Semitic slogans over the weekend. Shoppers in the historic Marais neighbourhood, one of the busiest districts in the Jewish area of Paris, were left in shock early Sunday evening after a group of extremists terrorized community members with anti-Semitic verbal abuse.

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In Jerusalem, a 14-year-old Jewish boy was lightly injured in the back in a stabbing attack, police said Saturday.

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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran said that Germans should no longer allow themselves to be held prisoner by a sense of guilt over the Holocaust and reiterated doubts that the Holocaust ever happened. In an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel magazine, Ahmadinejad said he doubted that Germans were allowed to write "the truth" about the Holocaust and that he was still considering traveling to Germany for the World Cup soccer tournament.....Iran's first World Cup match is against Mexico in Nuremberg (ed. - of all places!) on June 11, and German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has said Iran's president would be welcome to come because Germany wants to be a good host.