Antisemitic events
08-02-2010 / United States
USA - Racist graffiti found on C.F. welcome sign
Racist graffiti had been painted on a large welcome sign facing southbound Highway 218 in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
The sign had been spray-painted with graffiti targeted at blacks and Jews.
Source: http://www.wcfcourier.com/
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07-02-2010 / United States
USA - Student claims further antisemitism at UO campus
University of Oregon officials say someone left a note with an antisemitic slur taped to a locker at the School of Architecture & Allied arts.
Dean Frances Bronet sent an e-mail to students saying a student found the note. The student destroyed the note.
The Department of Public Safety is investigating the vandalism.
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05-02-2010 / Britain
Britain - 'Troubling' rise in Jewish attacks
A record number of antisemitic attacks is "deeply troubling," Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned.
More than 924 reports of bigoted violence and abuse were received last year by The Community Security Trust (CST).
The charity, which monitors antisemitism in Britain, said the figures marked the worst year since records began in 1984. They included violent street attacks, arson,...
04-02-2010 / Canada
Canada – Jewish students attacked at a university in Toronto
Two Jewish students were attacked at a university in Toronto. Tyler Golden, who heads a publicity group at York University and who was a witness to the incident, told the "Shalom Life" website that the members of the Gilad Shalit activist group were sitting around a table with publicity material as part of their "Free the Palestinians from the Hamas" campaign that had been authorized by the...04-02-2010 / Ukraine
Ukraine - Presidential campaign gets dirty as leaflets smear prime minister as ‘Jew’
Ukraine’s bitter presidential campaign took an ugly turn this week as leaflets accusing Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko of being Jewish and encouraging voters not to cast ballots in her favor began to circulate in western Ukraine.
The flyer features Tymoshenko’s photograph with the words “Don’t Vote for a Jew!”
It reprints an alleged facsimile by the prime minister’s...
04-02-2010 / Britain
Britain - Police launch investigation into antisemitic Facebook group
Police have launched an urgent investigation into a horrific Facebook group that gave graphic details of antisemitic incidents perpetrated by its members against Ilford's Jewish community.
The group, created by a student at Loxford School of Science and Technology, attracted more than 500 members in two weeks following its launch last month and featured teenagers boasting about engaging...
04-02-2010 / Austria
Austria - Dog activists' use of yellow star angers Jews
Vienna's Jewish community blasted a dog magazine for using yellow stars in a campaign fighting 'racism' against attack dogs, and criticized the choice of a Nazi-era symbol.
Authorities in the Austrian capital are currently assessing whether to introduce a special owner's license for dog breeds that are considered especially dangerous or aggressive, a measure that has incensed many dog...
04-02-2010 / United States
USA – Antisemitic graffiti found at Mount Sinai cemetery
Antisemitic graffiti was found at Mount Sinai cemetery in Portland.
A caretaker found several swastikas painted on four tombstones.
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04-02-2010 / France
France - Antisemitic acts soar in France in '09
A group founded to protect France's Jewish community says antisemitic acts in France soared 75 percent last year - many coming as Israel pressed an offensive against Hamas in the Middle East in January.
The Jewish Community Protection Service (SPCJ) tallied 832 antisemitic acts in 2009, up from 474 a year earlier. Most involved graffiti and threatening gestures; about 17 percent involved...
02-02-2010 / Italy
Italy – Lazio supporters against Golsa: "We don't want people stained with blood"
A special page on the 'Facebook' net has been opened against the petition for a relationship with Maccabi Haifa: "We do not want people who belong to a nation of criminals and murderers."
"It is enough for him being a Jews not to accept him, but he is also about to join their military forces in their army within a year and this is something that we cannot accept." A surfer named...
01-02-2010 / United States
USA - Swastikas spray-painted on yeshiva buses
Swastikas were spray-painted on yeshiva school buses at Williamsburg, NY
Source: http://www.vosizneias.com/
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31-01-2010 / Germany
Germany - Muslim antisemitism in Germany
Below is a news report from German TV about the extent of Muslim antisemitism in Germany and elsewhere, with a particular focus on the Palestinian issue. Source: http://www.youtube.com/31-01-2010 / Ukraine
Ukraine - Leaflets distributed calling for genocide of Jews in the streets
On the streets of Sudak, Crimea, Anonymous people distributed leaflets urging passersby for genocide of the Jews.
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29-01-2010 / France
France – a reputed politician: "I will not vote for a Jew."
George Frêche, the President of the Languedoc-Roussillon Regional Committee, a member of the French socialist party, has said, in
an interview granted to the weekly newspaper l'Express, that he will not vote for a Jewish member of the party, Laurent Fabius, in the regional elections to be held in March, because "he does not have a catholic face." So reported the French media.
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28-01-2010 / Italy
Italy – antisemitic graffiti
Antisemitic graffiti have been bomb-sprayed at Via Cavour in Rome by the extreme rightist movement Militia.
The graffiti are meant against the president of the Jewish community, Riccardo Pacifici and also against the mayor, Alemanno, who is named "the Zionist worm."
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28-01-2010 / Italy
Italy - antisemitic graffiti
Antisemitic graffiti was sprayed-painted on Via Cavour in Rome by the extreme right movement Militia.
Addresses are against the head of the Jewish community Riccardo Pacifici, and against the mayor Alemanno called "Zionist worm"
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28-01-2010 / Poland
Poland – Antisemitic graffiti
Antisemitic graffiti was spray-painted on the Jewish community building in the city of Wroclaw.
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28-01-2010 / United States
USA - Another sick call to ‘KILL JEWS’
In a stunning display of intolerance, Sixth Avenue in Park Slope was littered with strips of papers reading “KILL JEWS” in capital letters from Fourth to Ninth streets on Wednesday.
Nearly two dozen of the strips were picked up by Karen Guilbert, who had just finished walking her daughter to school.
Last September, the same notes turned up in Bay Ridge, Boerum Hill and Clinton Hill....
28-01-2010 / Sweden
Sweden - Mayor of Malmo: Zionism is racism
Anotherantisemitic Swedish/Scandinavian politician denies the Jews their obvious right to determine their own lives. In an interview, ironicallyabout stamping out antisemtism in Malmö, Sweden,Mayor of Malmö, Ilmar Reepalu, blames the collective Jew, Israel, for recentattacks against Jews in Malmö, "due to the conflict in Gaza last year spilled over to Malmo."
But Reepalu goes further...
27-01-2010 / Malaysia
Malaysia - Former Malaysian leader: Jews cause world’s problems
Malaysia’s former prime minister accused America’s "Jewish lobby" of preventing President Obama from ending the war in Afghanistan.
Local Malaysian media reported that Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, who ruled the Muslim nation between 1981 and 2003, told the Conference for the Support of Al-Quds on Jan. 21 that AIPAC was hindering two of Obama’s key election promises: ending the war in...
