Antisemitic events
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
21-05-2008 /
Europe – Amazon website permits the sale of anti-Semitic films.
The Vatican Newspaper, Osservatore Romano, condemned the amazon.com and additional websites for the disseminating anti-Semitic Nazi films widely in Europe. They were referring to films and books like “Jew Suss” (Jud Süss) - an unmistakably anti-Semitic feature movie and ”The Eternal Jew” the infamous and familiar seditious propaganda film that displays “documentary pictures” of Jews and, among other things, compares the Jews to mice.
The Vatican newspaper defined the films as “the dangerous dissemination of anti-Semitic propaganda all over Europe” The Vatican reacted to the affair following an article in the German newspaper, “Die Welt”.
Source:
http://www.omedia.co.il/
By Dr. Rebecca Shafek-Lissack
21-05-2008 / France
France – aggression against a college student in Paris
Across from the college, several students were asked by several people whether they were Jewish. After one student answered he is Jewish, he was pushed against the wall and beaten. His friend also was beaten in the head.
21-05-2008 / France
France– A package that was sent to the Community Association in Avignon
The Community Association received a package in the mail that contained bad-smelling toilet paper with brown stains. A complaint has been lodged.
21-05-2008 / France
France – Anti-Semitic Insultsbetween Drivers in Paris 75016
Following a quarrel with a driver, a Jewish man had Anti-Semitic insults hurled at him: "Go back to the synagogue," as well as threats in the police compound: "…I'm going to skin you alive…"
20-05-2008 / Lithuania
Lithuania - Holocaust Memorial Vandalized
Vandals desecrated a Holocaust memorial in Lithuania. Someone set a memorial monument on fire at the site where Nazis murdered 1,446 Jews from surrounding towns in the Varnikai forest.
Source:
www.fsumonitor.com
20-05-2008 / France
France– Anti-Semitic Insults in Paris (75003)
A woman of the Jewish faith was harassed by one of the managers of a café who yelled at her telling her that “it isn’t possible to return to Israel, as there are barricades, and that country belongs to the Palestinians.” Whereas the other manager of the café places his hand on her shoulder and said: “As a little Jewess, you should understand that.”
20-05-2008 / France
France– Harassment of a Mother and Daughter by their Neighbor in Paris (75016)
A mother and her daughter were insulted by a neighbor in a privately owned building, “Ho! Your race, big dirty Jewish w… They didn’t destroy enough of you, dirty little Jewess.
19-05-2008 / United States
USA - Second Attack on Crown Heights Jews
Just days after a Hasidic teen was attacked in Crown Heights, police investigated another alleged attack on a group of Jews in the neighborhood.
The incident took place Saturday afternoon near a temple on Eastern Parkway.
Three black men yelled racial slurs and threw rocks at the victims.
No one was hurt and no arrests were made.
Source:
www.crownheights.info
19-05-2008 / Russia
Russia - Attack on Jewish Community in Salavat
Drunken youths banged metal pipes on the door of a Jewish community center in Salavat, Russia (Republic of Bashkortostan) in an attempt to break in during a religious service. "Four youths asked in a very rude way if we were Jews" and then attempted to force entry into the building, a local community leader was quoted as saying. "It was terrible. Those guys were drunk and could have done anything," he added. The attack scared the congregation, especially the children, but police did arrive in time to detain the youths. It is not clear what charges they face.
Source:
www.fsumonitor.com
17-05-2008 / United States
USA– Anti-semitic graffiti found in Johnsburg
Three separate graffiti incidents occurred in the town recently, all within the property of the North Creek Ski Bowl.
Nicholas Hier, 19, of Johnsburg, and another unidentified teenager were arrested and charged with misdemeanors in connection with the crimes. Police refused to release the name of the other teen because of his age.
Source:
www.poststar.com
By Alyson Martin
17-05-2008 / Russia
Russia - Nizhniy Novgorod Jewish Cemetery was desecrated
Unidentified vandals have desecrated three Jewish graves at the Maryina Roshcha cemetery in Nizhniy Novgorod. Among the desecrated graves was Iuda Bershteyn’s, once the chief rabbi of Nizhniy Novgorod.
Source:
www.fsumonitor.com
17-05-2008 / Britain
Britain - Email accuses Grant of “having Arab blood on his hands”
Jewish Chronicle reveals Chelsea's Israeli manager has been target of vile anti-Semitic abuse. One email sent to him brands Israeli player Tal Ben Haim 'a Jewish terrorist'
One, full of misspellings, accused Grant of “having Palestinian and Arab blood on his hands”. Another branded his Israeli player Tal Ben Haim “a Jewish terrorist”.
Grant has refused to be questioned on the subject. His spokesman told the JC, “He doesn’t want to become a political or social commentary figure. He just wants to be known as a football manager.”
Source:
www.ynet.co.il
16-05-2008 / Ukraine
Ukraine – Antisemitic and Anti-Russian Demonstration in Kiev
A group of young people representing the extremist nationalist groups UNA-UNSO and the National Labor Party of Ukraine gathered in front of the Russian embassy in Kiev screaming antisemitic and anti-Russian slogans like, "No to kike-Russian occupation!" and referring to Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, whose recent statements about the status of Sevastopol have angered many in Ukraine, by his "secret Jewish name" Katz. The demonstrators then burned a Russian flag. Despite Ukrainian laws banning hate speech, police stood idly by during the demonstration.
Source:
www.fsumonitor.com
16-05-2008 / Canada
Canada – Anti-Semitic graffiti in Jewish neighborhood
Police are investigating two hate-motivated crimes after apartment buildings near Bathurst and Steles were defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti.
In an apartment building on Fishersville Rd. they found the word “FUCK” and anti-Semitic phrases, including “we hate Jews”, on the wall of the underground garage.
A similar defacing occurred days earlier in an apartment building on Bathurst, south of Steles. Residents found three swastikas, and phrases, believed to be in Russian, scrawled on the walls of the 12th floor stairwell.
The area is home to a large Jewish-Russian population.
Source:
www.towncrieronline.ca
By Karolyn Coorsh
16-05-2008 / United States
USA - Brooklyn Teen Beaten, Robbed in Crown Heights
Alon Sherman, 16-year-old Hasidic boy was beaten and robbed on the streets of Brooklyn.
Police said the assault happened around midnight on Albany Avenue.
Two black men attacked Alon Sherman, robbing him of his cell phone, wallet, watch and bike. Both suspects fled the scene.
16-05-2008 / Argentina
Argentina – Malicious Graffiti at School
Unidentified people are painting swastikas on the facades of four high schools in the city of BUENOS AIRES.
“We don’t know who they are, only that the graffiti have been appearing these past two weeks. We paint over them but the next day they appear again”, said one of the students.
The school principals have not yet reported the incidents officially. They are only busy white-washing the walls.
Source: DAIA
15-05-2008 / Ireland
Ireland - Thugs target couple in anti-Semitic attack
Anti-Semitic slogans have been daubed on the home of a couple who say they are being targeted by racist thugs.
The entrance to Herb Meyer's home on the Dublin Road in Tuam has been vandalized with the words "Go Home Jew", with a swastika also spray-painted on his driveway wall.
The culprits also sprayed swastika symbols and graffiti on the windows of the house in the attack.
Source:
www.independent.ie
15-05-2008 / Mexico
Mexico – Swastika was drawn in Mexico City
A swastika was drawn on a wall of the Jewish community sports center in Mexico City
14-05-2008 / United States
USA - swastika graffiti were drawn on Jewish resident’s door
Residents at a University Hill home in Boulder, Colorado, found swastikas drawn with chalk on the front door and a steak knife next to a letter promoting suicide at the back door.
The house is split into apartments, and residents told police that at least four of the building's tenants are Jewish.
Source:
www.dailycamera.com
By Vanessa Miller
