Antisemitic events
07-05-2008 / France
France– Anti-Semitic Insults on the Internet in Paris (75012)
Following a purchase made at an electric goods store, a Jewish man expressed dissatisfaction with his purchase on a consumer website. A surfer on the internet answered him: If you aren’t satisfied… with your name, I bet you are a Jew, and Jews, after all, are the kings of complaints, just as the Jews believe they are superior to everyone.”
06-05-2008 / Sweden
Sweden – object thrown at a synagogue in Malmo
On the afternoon of May 6, 2008, while shouting and escaping the scene, an eastern looking man about 35 years old threw a bag next to the front door of a synagogue in Malmo. At that time there was a guided tour for tourists in the synagogue.
06-05-2008 / France
France– Threatening Messages Left on a Cellular Phone of a Young Jew in Montpellier
A Jewish youngster received threatening and insulting messages on his cellular phone: “… Dirty Jew, I am a racist and hate Jews, and I loudly and strongly declare that they are to blame……”
05-05-2008 / Russia
Russia - Antisemitic Graffiti on the Jewish community center in Tula
The Jewish community center had been vandalized by unknown suspects, who painted "Glory to Hitler," "Kikes to the oven", and "Russia for Russians" along with swastikas on the center's walls.
Source:
www.fsumonitor.com
01-05-2008 / Georgia
Georgia - Jewish Cemetery Vandalized in Batumi
Unknown perpetrators vandalized a Jewish cemetery outside Batumi in the Adjaran Autonomous Republic.
Damage includes a spray painted swastika on a headstone.
Police investigation is ongoing.
“I could never have imagined this would happen here,” Emil Krupnik, head of the Association of Georgian-Jewish Relations in Batumi, said. “Local residents here were also alarmed by this incident.”
“Nothing similar has ever happened in the past here,” Nodar Jorbenadze, director of the cemetery, told Tbilisi-based Mze TV.
Source: www.civil.ge
01-05-2008 / United States
USA - Vandals hit synagogue in San Diego
Vandals scrawled hate-related graffiti on a north San Diego County Ner Tamid synagogue.
The vandals left a combination of letters, numbers and signs in blue and black paint that included symbols synonymous with the phrase “Heil Hitler”.
Source: www.cbs8.com
30-04-2008 / Israel
Israel - T.A. University: 6.6 percent rise in violent anti-Semitic attacks worldwide
Despite an overall decline in anti-Semitic incidents around the world in 2007, the Tel Aviv University anti-Semitism research center recorded a 6.6 percent rise specifically in violent anti-Semitic attacks, including arson and the use of firearms with intent to kill.
The Tel Aviv University report, published Wednesday, encompasses 632 incidents of violent anti-Semitic attacks. The report maintains that the number of severe violent attacks has risen threefold with 19 incidents in 2006, and 57 incidents in 2007.
According to the report, there has been an overall decline in anti-Semitic events, such as verbal and visual offenses, in several key nations such as France, Belgium, Germany, South Africa, the United States and Britain.
The report also shows a decline in mild violence driven by anti-Semitism, such as vandalism of community centers and schools. However, the desecration of Jewish cemeteries, monuments and memorials has been on the rise around the world. Incidents of desecration rose from 91 in 2006 to 141 in 2007.
France saw a rise from two violent attacks to eight in 2007. The trend of increasing violent attacks was especially apparent in Australia and Ukraine. In Germany, Canada and Britain there was a sharp rise in violence: in Germany the number of milder attacks rose from 38 to 67, and 10 exceptionally violent attacks were recorded, as opposed to none in 2006. In Britain and Canada the rise was more moderate, but the number of extremely violent incidents rose from two to 15 in
Britain and from none to five in Canada.
In the U.S. there was an overall 6 percent decline in all types of anti-Semitic events as well as a decrease in the number of harassments. However, the U.S. saw a rise in anti-Semitic vandalism. The Anti-Defamation League recorded 93 cases of vandalism in the U.S. and 48 cases of assault.
In Russia, anti-Semitic events remained static, with no rise or fall in the number of violent cases.
The report speculates that the decline in overt anti-Semitism in certain places could be a result of the commitment made by the government in those countries and other international bodies to fight anti-Semitism, especially anti-Semitic violence, and to integrate the Jewish communities in the law enforcement and legal processes.
Another possibility raised in the report is the respective governments' fear of street riots that could harm the general population, not just Jews, and drives the legislation and law enforcement in those places to clamp down against anti-Semitic phenomena.
The report adds that the commitment to fight anti-Semitism is apparent in Western countries like Canada, Britain the U.S. and Australia, but not so much in Russia and Ukraine.
source: www.haaretz.co.il
30-04-2008 / Poland
Poland - Antisemitic incident in Polish football
Polish footballer Arkadiusz Mysona wore a shirt with a racist slogan after a match in the latest racist incident in the sport, a local news report said on Wednesday. According to the report by the Gazet Wyborcza daily, the Polish football federation has imposed a home field ban on Mysona's club LKS Lodz for the rest of the season and that Myson faces a hefty fine.
The daily said that Mysona was asked by a fan to wear the shirt after a local derby with Widzew Lodz two weeks ago.
The shirt reportedly bore the slogan "Jewish Whore," allegedly directed at the Widzew club. Gazet Wyborcza said that Myson has admitted to wearing the shirt, but that he didn't see the racist slogan. He reportedly said that he was not a racist.
Source: www.ynet.co.il
30-04-2008 / United States
USA - Candidate addresses neo-Nazis
Tony Zirkle, who is seeking the Republican Party's nomination in the 2nd District in Indiana, spoke to a neo-Nazi group celebrating Adolf Hitler's birthday. He said he spoke to the American National Socialist Workers Party in Chicago on April 20 because he was asked.
Zirkle spoke in front of a painting of the Nazi leader, with a swastika flag hanging in the background.
"I'll speak before any group that invites me," he said.
Zirkle said he did not know much about the neo-Nazi organization.
Source: www.jta.org
30-04-2008 / United States
USA - anti-Semitic graffiti in University of California, Santa Cruz
University of California, Santa Cruz officials said campus police are investigating anti-Semitic graffiti scrawled on a wall outside a classroom at Oakes College.
The drawing, which depicts the Star of David resting between the World Trade Center towers as an airplane approaches. Police have not immediately identified a suspect.
Source:
www.mercurynews.com
By J.M. Brown
30-04-2008 / United States
USA - Vandals painted swastikas on Chabad Hebrew School
Swastikas were scrawled over parts of the Chabad Hebrew School of Parkland in Broward County.
Along with swastikas, there were the words, "Stop for Hitler," painted on a stop sign, all of which is especially offensive to people of Jewish faith who mark the week with the Days of Remembrance of the Holocaust.
Source:
http://cbs4.com
30-04-2008 / Australia
Australia - Mayor apologizes for anti-Semitic remarks
The mayor of a regional New South Wales shire has apologized for making anti-Semitic remarks at a public meeting.
When asked why the Shoalhaven Council had decided to sell public land for a discounted price, Mayor Greg Watson said: “Why don’t you jack up the price, why don’t you be a good Jew....?”
Councilor Watson told The AJN that he regrets his remarks and rejected any assertions that he is anti-Semitic.
“My wife is Jewish,” he said. “In the heat of the moment, I said a phrase like this … it wasn’t a planned statement.”
Source:
www.ajn.com.au
By Naomi Levin
30-04-2008 / Britain
Britain- swastikas at location in South London
A number of swastikas had been found in Southwark area. One was on a church, second was on a house owned by a black family and the third was on a business address which had been reported in the press that a Jewish developer had recently taken over.
30-04-2008 / France
Paris – violence against Jews on the Metro
A young Jewish male with no conspicuous characteristics was beaten in a metro car at night between Tuesday and Wednesday. The attacker told him: "I will kill you, dirty Jew," while indicating with his hand that he will strangle him.
30-04-2008 / Germany
Germany - Jewish cemetery vandalized for the second time in less than three days
The police discovered more desecrated graves at the Jewish cemetery in Berlin Weissensee. According to a police report, presumably the same perpetrators sneaked into
the cemetery a second time and destroyed at least 20 graves
.
Source: www.european-forum-on-antisemitism.org.
30-04-2008 / United States
USA - Swastikas were painted on a synagogue
Swastikas were spray-painted on a synagogue two days before the Jewish observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day in Miami, Florida
Source:
www.splcenter.org
30-04-2008 / France
France– Act of Aggression a Man of the Jewish Faith in a Metro Station in Paris 75010
A young man of the Jewish faith, who bore no identifying signs, was beaten with blows in the underground train on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday. His attacker said to him: "I am going to kill you, dirty Jew", as he made a sign of cutting his throat.
29-04-2008 / Germany
Germany - Europe's largest Jewish cemetery vandalized
Unknown assailants vandalized overnight a Jewish cemetery in Berlin, Europe's largest, knocking over 23 gravestones and 10 smaller markers.
The Weissensee cemetery was opened in 1880 and holds 115,600 graves. Some of its mausolea were designed by famed Bauhaus architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius
Source:
www.ynet.co.il
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29-04-2008 / France
France– Harassment on the Telephone of a Person of the Jewish Faith 75012
A woman of the Jewish faith received threatening and insulting telephone calls over a period of several days: "Bitch, whore, I want to f… your mother, you little Jewess of Israel, I want to burn you, you and your family and your synagogue, all your synagogues will be burned."
28-04-2008 / Ukraine
Ukraine - Vandals strike Jewish cemetery in Bolgrad
A Jewish cemetery in the town of Bolgrad, near Odessa, was vandalized. The unknown vandals damaged eleven gravestones. Jewish community leaders reported the incident to the police.
Source:
www.fsumonitor.com
