US President Joe Biden on Friday appealed to the country's political leaders to denounce anti-Semitism, in the wake of Donald Trump hosting a Holocaust denier and rapper Kanye West declaring his admiration for Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

Joe Biden says 'silence is complicity' in his call to denounce anti-semitism

Equipped with long sticks, and a sanitizing spray gun, a team of cleaners on Wednesday (September 16) gouged out written prayers that visitors to Judaism's Western Wall in Jerusalem traditionally cram into its crevices.

Notes to God removed from Jerusalem's Western Wall

Israeli forces began preparations to demolish homes near a military barrier on the outskirts of Jerusalem under the cover of darkness on Monday, in the face of Palestinian protests and international criticism.

Israel prepares to demolish homes on Jerusalem outskirts, stoking Palestinian fears

Religious intolerance has exacerbated polarisation

'In the name of the Father'

Police expelled 10 Jews from the compound for trying to pray and arrested another two. Jews are allowed to visit the compound but not pray

Jews expelled from Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque on mourning day

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