Antisemitic events
04-03-2010 / Poland
Poland - Jewish cemetery desecrated
Antisemitic slogans painted on the tombstones at Warsaw’s Jewish cemetery in Brodno district.
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04-03-2010 / Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan - Jewish cemetery desecrated
Six graves at the central cemetery of Almaty were desecrated over the past few days. The six graves are located near each other. The attackers knocked down the tombstones, causing them to split. Source: http://www.aen.ru/ View Larger Map ...03-03-2010 / Britain
Britain - Race hate thugs convicted in Manchester
A mother and son carried out a series of racist attacks on Jewish people by driving past shouting abuse and spraying them with liquid.
Dean Parker, 22, and his mum Shameem Parker spent two days driving around the Broughton area of Salford targeting members of the Jewish community – including children.
The pair were in a Fiat Doblo driven by Barry Clark-Millar, when the incidents...
03-03-2010 / United States
USA - University of Wisconsin runs ad linked to Holocaust denial site
The online ad, a small text link, is easy to miss. It reads, "The Holocaust Question: The Power of Taboo."
The advertisement on the Badger Herald Web site leads to a site denying the Holocaust and the University of Wisconsin-Madison student newspaper is now taking heat for running it.
Badger Herald Editor Jason Smathers defended the decision to accept the $75 ad, while members of...
02-03-2010 / Italy
Italy - Rome Holocaust memorial vandalized
Vandals covered with black paint a set of “stumbling stones” that had been placed in front of the house of a Jewish family that had been deported to Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
The Stumbling Stones – or Stolpersteine – memorial project was begun in the 1990s by the German artist Gunter Demnig. Brass plates, like cobblestones, are placed in front of the houses of deportees,...
01-03-2010 / United States
USA - Farrakhan attacks Jews, 'white right'
Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said the "white right" wants U.S. President Barack Obama to be assassinated.
Farrakhan said a Southern Baptist preacher was quoting recently as praying the president would die and added, "There are Christians praying for God to kill Obama," the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
"The white right is trying to set Barack up to be assassinated," the...
01-03-2010 / Netherlands
Holland - Utrecht football supporters sent home because of antisemitic chanting
Amsterdam police sent some 700 fans of FC Utrecht back home by train before afternoon's game against Ajax because of antisemitic chanting, news agency ANP reported.
Despite several warnings and the distribution of flyers ordering fans to behave, the chanting continued, leading police to order them home.
In 2002, Amsterdam mayor Job Cohen also ordered Utrecht fans home after they...
01-03-2010 /
‘Israeli Apartheid Week’ starts today in 40 cities
The sixth international Israeli Apartheid Week kicks off on Monday, with the “week-long” festivities taking place over 14 days in over 40 cities across the globe.
Organizers say this year’s events are meant to “educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system and to build Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaigns as part of a growing global BDS...
28-02-2010 / Iran
Iran – Ahmadinejad: 'Zionist regime seeks world control'
In a rant that reeked of old-fashioned antisemitism, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the "Zionist regime" was seeking to control the world.
Addressing the International Conference on National and Islamic Solidarity for Future of Palestine, Ahmadinejad said that the existence of the "Zionist regime" is an insult to all of humanity, asserting that it had lost its raison...
28-02-2010 / Spain
Spain - School kids send antisemitic messages to Israeli embassy
Israel lodged a formal complaint with Spain, charging certain individuals in Spanish schools of promoting antisemitic and anti-Israel ideas among young children. The letter comes after Israel's ambassador to Spain, Rafi Shotz, recently received dozens of antisemitic postcards from Spanish elementary school students.
The postcards bore statements including "Jews kill for money," "Leave the...
28-02-2010 / Britain
Britain - Teen to website users: Pledge you aren't Jewish
A teenager who set up a racist website, which asked people to pledge they had never followed Judaism, is believed to be the youngest person prosecuted for inciting racial hatred. The 17-year-old from north Norfolk set up his own website where visitors had to pledge they “have never been a follower of the Jewish religion”. He also asked visitors to affirm they were white and they...26-02-2010 / United States
USA – Antisemitic graffiti in UC Davis
A swastika was carved into a Jewish student's door in the Tercero residence hall at University of California, Davis.
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25-02-2010 / Britain
Britain - Homophobic and antisemitic preacher invited to London University
A Muslim cleric who has called Jews “filth” and gay people “sick” has been invited to speak at a London university.
Sheikh Abdullah Hakim Quick will speak at the Strand campus of Kings College on “Islamic solutions to environmental problems”, as part of the university’s green week.
Sheikh Quick was featured on a New Zealand television programme in 2003 where he called...
24-02-2010 / Canada
Canada - Antisemitic incidents in Canada reach record high
Antisemitic incidents in Canada rose to record levels, according to B'nai Brith Canada's annual audit.
The yearly survey released Wednesday showed an 11.4 percent increase in incidents in 2009 over the previous year to reach the highest number ever reported in the audit's 28-year history.
There were 1,264 anti-Jewish incidents last year, which encompassed acts of harassment, vandalism...
24-02-2010 / Brazil
Brazil – Antisemitic graffiti
Swastikas and the numbers 14 88 were spray-painted near Curitiba’s main Jewish institution.
A synagogue, youth movement, country club, Jewish school, and others are located in the area.
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23-02-2010 / United States
USA - Antisemitic graffiti found at local school
Antisemitic graffiti had been painted on outside walls and on several classroom windows on the side of the Louise Davy Trahan Elementary School in Tewksbury Massachusetts.
Senior building custodian Peter Thuillier found swastikas, vulgarity, ethnic slurs directed at Jewish people and a circled letter "A," known as the symbol for anarchy, done in white paint.
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22-02-2010 / Russia
Russia – Antisemitic graffiti
Antisemitic graffiti was spray-painted at the wall of one of the houses in Vilisa Latsis st. in Moscow. Source: http://www.aen.ru/ View Larger Map ...22-02-2010 / Sweden
Sweden - Jews leave Swedish city after sharp rise in antisemitic hate crimes
When she first arrived in Sweden after her rescue from a Nazi concentration camp, Judith Popinski was treated with great kindness.
She raised a family in the city of Malmo, and for the next six decades lived happily in her adopted homeland - until last year.
In 2009, a chapel serving the city's 700-strong Jewish community was set ablaze. Jewish cemeteries were repeatedly desecrated,...
21-02-2010 / Mexico
Mexico - Group of antisemitic thugs attacked Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's son
Rabbi David Yosef, the son of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, was attacked by a group of antisemites in Mexico City.
Rabbi David Yosef arrived in Mexico to assist the local Jewish community in the aftermath of the death of Jewish billionaire Moshe Saba in a helicopter crash.
Rabbi David Yosef left the Sha'arei Shalom synagogue and was making his way to the house he was...
21-02-2010 / Egypt
Egypt - Makeshift bomb hurled at Cairo synagogue
Egyptian police reported that a makeshift bomb was hurled at Cairo's main downtown synagogue in the early hours of the morning, causing a brief fire but no injuries, the official news agency reported.
An Egyptian security source said the device was thrown by an unknown person who arrived at the Panorama Hotel, which is located across the street from the synagogue. The man was carrying a...
