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Featured Stories Tough times drive European voters to far right This poster was used in the campaign for EU Parliament by the British National Party, a neo-fascist group that won seats in a legislature for the first time since the 1930s. (Mia!/Creative Commons) Gains by anti-Semitic, xenophobic and racist far-right parties in June 4-7 elections for European Parliament were a reminder of how voters across Europe gravitate toward extremist parties during tough economic times. Read more » Hungarian Jews reeling from far-right party's gains The strong showing by a far-right Hungarian party in EU parliamentary elections has sent shock waves through Europe's fourth-largest Jewish community. Read more » Editors' Picks Democracy, Iranian style From claims by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that a halo of light enveloped him during a 2005 speech to attacks against the wife of reformist candidate Mir-Hossein Moussavi, Iran may have the liveliest electioneering in the Muslim world. Answering Max Blumenthal Video journalist Max Blumenthal has stirred controversy with a video of some young Jewish people in Jerusalem making racist comments about Barack Obama. Now a student at Bar-Ilan University has her own video out in an effort to present her peers in a better light. Obama's line in the sand on Holocaust denial In President Obama's rhetorical universe, divided between gray and deeper gray, he drew a vivid line on Holocaust denial, writes Michael Gerson in The Washington Post. Breaking News Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will represent Israel at the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly. The United Jewish Communities will be getting a new name in the fall. Israel's security-diplomatic Cabinet agreed that the Israel Defense Forces will respond to all attacks from Gaza. State prosecutors have dropped charges against an Israeli accused of shooting at a Palestinian family in Hebron. A new poll shows that a little more than half of Canadians have a favorable opinion of Judaism. America will not turn its back on the Palestinians' "legitimate aspiration for a state," George Mitchell said. Roman Jews are likely to boycott a meeting with visiting Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi unless the date is changed from Shabbat. A former Knesset member was elected president of Hebrew University. The man who allegedly killed a Jewish Wesleyan University student and was also targeting other Jews pleaded not guilty to the murder. Israeli, Palestinian and Italian students are taking part in a two-week theater education project in Naples. Nextbook.org relaunched its redesigned, revamped Web site today under a new name: tabletmag.com. An Argentine federal judge issued an arrest warrant for a Colombian man accused of being a key organizer in an attack on a Buenos Aires Jewish center. A Jewish human rights organization is calling for criminal charges against a Ukrainian lawmaker.