Antisemitic events
02-06-2008 /
A shocking film showing the GTA 4 computer game hero shooting Yeshiva students to death has been publicized on the internet.
A shocking film showing the GTA 4 computer game hero shooting Yeshiva students to death has been publicized on the internet.
The film has been put out for the past two weeks on You Tube – (warning: not easy to view) and shows a scene from the new game GTA IV – in black and white, with German background music sung by Marlene Dietrich. The film opens with the title, “The Final Solution” in English and German and continues with the character of the actor passing through the arena of the GTA game as he cruelly murders religious and orthodox Jews.
02-06-2008 / Belarus
Belarus – Malicious Anti-Semitic Graffiti on Synagogue and Jewish Community Center
Malicious Anti-Semitic graffiti were sprayed on a synagogue and Jewish Community Center building in the town of Borisov, about 75 km. south of the capital, Minsk. The slogan sprayed on the walls read “Out with the Jews”.
31-05-2008 / Ukraine
Ukraine – Malicious Graffiti Sprayed in the Center of Kiev
A malicious Anti-Semitic slogan with the word, “Death” sprayed on a poster board in the center of Kiev.
30-05-2008 / Australia
Australia - physical violence in Perth
4- youths returning from a Shabbaton passed by a house where a Muslim people were having a gathering. They were chased by a group of Muslim men and eventually sought refuge in a nearby house. A mailbox was pulled out of the ground and thrown at the owner of the house.
Earlier in the evening a family on their way to Shabbat dinner passed by the same house and was verbally abused.
29-05-2008 / India
India – Antisemitism in Goa
Warning sign in Indian train to Goa
29-05-2008 / United States
USA - Swastikas Scrawled On Agudah building
Two swastikas found scrawled on the Nostrand Avenue exit door of the Agudah Binyomin building in Brooklyn, NY.
Source:
www.theyeshivaworld.com
29-05-2008 / France
France- violent attack against a 12 year-old boy when leaving a synagogue in Paris (75012)
Upon leaving the synagogue, a 12 year-old boy, wearing a skullcap, was attacked by two people who threw him to the ground, beat him and cursed him saying “filthy Jew, son of a b…, etc. The victim was injured and required medical treatment.
28-05-2008 / Belgium
Belgium – A street performance on the occasion of “Nachba” (Catastrophe) Day with Anti-Semitic overtones.
On May 24, a street performance was staged in the town of Nivelles that showed Palestinians being chased out of their homes and taken away on trucks by Israeli soldiers. The incident was presented as an Israeli version of the Holocaust. The event was organized by Paix Juste au Proche-Orient Nivelles (The Nivelles Just Peace for the Near East) a pro-Palestinian organization
and was publicized on the official site of the Brabant Wallon Cultural Center.
At the end of the performance, speeches were made by two senior Belgian politicians, André Flahaut, a former Minister of Defense who serves at present as a Member of the Belgian Parliament and as Municipal Advisor to the city of Nivelles, and Thérése Snoy, a Member of the Belgian Parliament for the Green Party. The speakers compared Israeli actions in the Occupied Territories to those of the Nazis during the Holocaust.
28-05-2008 / Australia
Australia – Jewish Agency Emissary Attacked
Eggs were thrown at the vehicle of the Jewish Agency Emissary, Rabbi Eitan Cohen, in Perth, Australia.
28-05-2008 / France
France – Antisemitic inscription on the entrance door of a private Dermatology Clinic in Paris
An inscription reading, “Die, Jewish bastard!“ was inscribed on the entrance door of a private dermatology clinic, and had cigarette ask stuck to it. The area was cordoned off.
28-05-2008 / France
France– Act of Aggression with Tear Gas against Two Primary School Children in Paris 75020
In the environs of a Jewish school, tear gas was sprayed at two Primary School Children by two men who escaped.
27-05-2008 / Britain
Britain - British Union to vote again on controversial call for academic boycott of Israel
Members of the University and College Union (UCU) will debate Wednesday a motion which
calls again for an academic boycott of Israeli universities in the light of the "humanitarian catastrophe imposed on Gaza."
It also demands Jewish and Israeli academics that they explain their politics as a pre-condition to normal academic contact.
The motion, to be discussed at the union’s conference in Manchester, asks colleagues "to consider the moral and political implications of educational links with Israeli institutions, and to discuss the occupation with individuals and institutions concerned, including Israeli colleagues with whom they are collaborating".
Source:
http://www.ejpress.org/
26-05-2008 / Iran
Iran – Again an Exhibition in Iran: The “Fraudulent Myth” of the Holocaust.
An exhibition of the subject of the Holocaust in the program of cultural events marking “The Establishment of the Zionist Entity” that took place in Qum (where most of the important religious centers are located),
was planned by the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.
The “works” of 230 artists from Iran and abroad are represented in the exhibition. Most of the items represent the Jews in an anti-Semitic manner as controlling the world and being the Western Trojan Horse, “a foreign body planted in the heart of the Moslem countries” and the United States of America as Israel’s puppet.
was planned by the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.
The “works” of 230 artists from Iran and abroad are represented in the exhibition. Most of the items represent the Jews in an anti-Semitic manner as controlling the world and being the Western Trojan Horse, “a foreign body planted in the heart of the Moslem countries” and the United States of America as Israel’s puppet.
Hamid Rasai, the Advisor to the Minister of Islamic Guidance, said that behind the decision to put on the exhibition were cultural goals that the Ministry set itself to mark the ”Anniversary of the Establishment of the Zionist Regime”. The exhibition was opened symbolically on Israel’s day of Independence and continued until May 25, “The Declared Day of Victory of Hezbollah over the Zionist Regime”, the day of Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000.
The Minister’s Advisor said that the cartoon caricatures were especially blunt and each of them questioned the Holocaust or as the Iranian Minister defined it:”That Fraudulent Myth”. Hamid Rasai indicated that the exhibition was intended to be a mobile one that would be shown in other provinces and cities in Iran.
Source:
www.omedia.co.il
25-05-2008 / Germany
Germany - Far-right NPD appoints holocaust denier as vice president
Juergen Rieger, a lawyer who has advised and defended neo-Nazis, was appointed Germany's main far-right group, the National Democratic Party (NPD), three vice-presidents. Rieger has convictions for Holocaust denial and assault.
Source: www.dw-world.de
25-05-2008 / United States
USA – An Orthodox Jewish was beaten
A member of the Jewish community was viciously assaulted in Lakewood, New Jersey.
The victim, a 39-year-old, had pulled his car over to the side of the road on Route 9, near Welsh Farms, and was looking for something in his car. Suddenly, two African American armed with a wooden stick, smashed his car window, hit him in his face, stole his laptop, and some money from him. The two attackers then fled into the night.
Source:
www.theyeshivaworld.com
25-05-2008 / Iran
Iran - Iranian government Web site promotes Holocaust denial
The massacre of Jewish people during the Holocaust was "scientifically impossible," according to an article published by an Iranian satellite channel on its Web site.
The article was written by Nicholas Kollerstrom, an academic specializing in astronomy, who had his fellowship terminated by University College London last month after he said there were never any gas chambers at Auschwitz.
Press TV, an Iranian English-language 24-hour news channel, was set up last year, by the Iranian government, to offer "unbiased" reporting and "in-depth and complete analyses of current affairs," according to its Web site. It posted Kollerstrom's article on Sunday, and despite protest from a Jewish community organization, the article is still on the site.
In the article, titled
"The Walls of Auschwitz‚" Kollerstrom argues that "the alleged massacre of Jewish people by gassing during World War II was scientifically impossible."
Kollerstrom's work is also hosted on the Web site of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust‚ which also promotes the works of Holocaust deniers David Irving of England and Ernst Zundel of Germany.
Source:
www.jpost.com
25-05-2008 / France
France– violence against Jews in Paris (75007) after the 60th anniversary celebrations of the State of Israel
Upon the end of the 60th anniversary celebrations of the State of Israel, the participants were taken aside by a group of twenty people. The victims were beaten with fists and with an umbrella. In addition, they suffered insults such as “filthy Jews, Israel does not exist, son of b…, Israel is on fire, you want to bring your cancerous children early, we will shut your mouths, and we now were able to destroy what is considered Jewish”.
Three of the people were held for investigation, put under police custody and handed to the authorities after being charged with anti – Semitic intended violence and offense.
23-05-2008 / Poland
Poland - Orthodox American Jew attacked at cemetery
An Orthodox American Jew was attacked by a group of teenagers in Warka, a city located 60 km from Warsaw.
The 19-year-old Asa Yitzhak Beich, from Anarbour, near Detroit, US, arrived in Poland two weeks ago and was visiting the “Ohel” or mausoleum commemorating Rabbbi Yitzhak Kalish, a well-known Hassidic rabbi, at the local Jewish cemetery.
Beich told EJP: "I was by myself when I arrived at the cemetery. There, I met a group of twenty teenagers – aged between 11 and 16- to whom I asked the direction of the Ohel. When I arrived at the Ohel, located on the top of a hill, the teenagers started laughing at me, asking me for money and shouting “Jew” in Polish before they punched me in the face."
The young man, who was lightly wounded, managed to escape and was later helped by Polish policemen who tried to identify the teenagers.
Source:
www.ejpress.org
22-05-2008 / United States
USA – probation sentence for e-mail threats
Kevin Cann Jr., 25, from Boston, Massachusetts pleaded guilty to making a false statement to a federal agent who was investigating religiously motivated e-mail threats sent to a Jewish teen. Cann was placed on three years probation, fined $750 and ordered to tour the Holocaust Museum.
Source:
www.splcenter.org
21-05-2008 / United States
USA - Teen boys charged with bias crime
Two 16-year-olds were charged with bias intimidation in Jackson NJ.
The victim, a 33-year-old Lakewood man, reported to Police that he was shopping at the supermarket when he was approached by two boys wearing hooded sweat shirts.
One of the boys was photographing the man as he shopped.
The victim told police that when he asked the boys to stop photographing him, one boy punched him in the mouth. The pair then fled on foot.
Police collected evidence that showed the act was anti-Semitic in nature.
Source:
www.app.com
