Antisemitic events
12-06-2008 / Britain
Britain-Jewish boy assaulted in Manchester
The reporter witnessed an assault on an orthodox Jewish boy in Salford. There was a group of white/eastern European teenagers who had surrounded the victim. One of the group was punching the victim whilst the others stood by and watched.
12-06-2008 / Britain
Britain –Excrement deliberately left near London synagogue
A bag of excrement was left outside a synagogue. The item had been deliberately wrapped in newspaper and 2 plastic bags.
12-06-2008 / Australia
Australia – antisemitic graffiti daubed on picnic table in Sydney
Antisemitic graffiti was daubed on a picnic table at St Ives Tennis Courts. It said “Fuck off Masada Jews grow some foreskin”.
11-06-2008 / Germany
Germany - “Stumbling stones” graffitied
Unknown perpetrators graffitied 29 of the so called “stumbling stones” with white paint. The stones had been paved into the ground in order to remember the former Jewish inhabitants of
Wilmersdorf, a district of Berlin, who became victims of National Socialism.
Source: www.european-forum-on-antisemitism.org
11-06-2008 / Britain
Britain – Jew verbally harassed by neighbours in Manchester
The victim has been receiving antisemitic and homophobic abuse from his neighbours. The victim is Jewish but is not gay. The perpetrators have been shouting "Judah Judah", "Jew Boy" and "Judah is a pufta" at the victim
10-06-2008 / United States
USA - Antisemitic propaganda on route 51
At the edge of a field along Route 51 in Central Illinois, someone placed a series of signs written in chalk. The signs read in sequence displayed the following message:
JEW BANKSTERS STOLE USA THRU FED RESV + USURY
GOD'S LAW ON URUSY & INTEREST DEATH A-FACT FOLKS
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Erin Klee
10-06-2008 / United States
USA - Slurs found on Palmetto Bay park buildings
The Palmetto Bay police unit is investigating racist and anti-Semitic slurs and symbols painted on the walls of two buildings at Coral Reef Park.
Park employees discovered the brown spray paint on the walls of the buildings.
The messages included swastikas, a noose and derogatory references to African Americans, Jews, Arabs and Mexicans.
Source:
www.miamiherald.com
By Patricia Mazzei
10-06-2008 / France
France – Desecration of Holocaust Memorial
On the night between 10th and 11th of June, a glass memorial placed in a square in the 18th Arrondissement in Paris in memory of the Jewish children who were sent to the annihilation camps, was broken into several pieces. A complaint was lodged.
09-06-2008 / Germany
Germany - German fans shout Nazi slogans at soccer match
Police arrest fans of German national soccer team at European Championship match against Poland for clashing with Polish fans, calling out 'All Poles must wear yellow star'
Police encircled the first group in downtown Klagenfurt after they began shouting slogans such as, “All Poles have to wear a yellow star” – an allusion to the yellow star that Jews were forced to display during the time of the Nazi regime in Europe.
Members of the second group were arrested, according to police, after they began shouting similar slogans, among them: “Germans protect yourselves. Don’t buy anything from Poles” – again an allusion to warnings during the Nazi era, when Germans and Austrians were told to boycott Jewish stores.
Source: www.ynetnews.com
pic: Roiters
09-06-2008 / Canada
Canada - Blacks, Jews and gays most likely victims of hate crimes: study
Blacks and Jews are most likely to be the victims of hate crimes in Canada and youth aged 12 to 17 were often the perpetrators,
according to research released by Statistics Canada.
The study, which relies mostly on research by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, uses police-reported data on the race, religion and sexual orientation of victims of hate-motivated incidents, ranging from property crimes to violent crimes.
Source:
www.statcan.ca
09-06-2008 / Britain
Britain –Threats and abusive behaviour in London
The victim, who is visibly Jewish, was on his way home from a synagogue after a Jewish festival. His route took him past a 24 hour shop. As he walked past he was called a "Fucking Jew" and the perpetrators tried to set their dogs on to him whilst saying "we are going to kill you". The victim manage to run away unhurt.
09-06-2008 / Britain
Britain –Threatening incident in Manchester
The victim was approached by three Indian/Pakistani males who covered their faces with masks. The perpetrators showed the victim a knife and a machine gun and demanded he hand over his valuables. The victim had nothing on him and the perpetrators left without harming him. As they left they said "The CST (Community Security Trust) are nothing - this is our patch".
08-06-2008 / United States
USA - Reward being offered in swastika incident
A couple weeks ago, a swastika was burned into the Newbury High School football field in Ohio.
Then, a swastika and anti-semitic words were left in a bathroom targeting a staff member. As a result, donors have given the district $800 for a reward for information leading to the suspects in the case.
Source: www.wkyc.com
08-06-2008 / France
France - Two small children attacked in Paris
Two children, aged 6 and 9 were attacked by three teenagers aged 13, 15 and 17, during a school recess in a nearby public garden. One of the victims, who is disabled, was sprayed with teargas.
Source: www.crif.org
08-06-2008 / Britain
Britain –Verbal assault and violence in Southgate
A member of the Jewish community was walking to a house for a Jewish festival when he was verbally abused with antisemitic remarks. An empty drink can was also thrown at the victim.
07-06-2008 / United States
USA - Vehicles vandalized with graffiti in Lindenhurst
Vandals hit a Lindenhurst neighborhood, drawing swastikas and crude pictures on eight vehicles parked along Farmers Avenue and Heathcote Road, NY.
Residents of the normally quiet block awakened to find the vandalism, which included sexually explicit drawings and phrases such as "heil Hitler" and "dead babies" written in black marker on light-colored cars, trucks and vans parked along the curb.
Source:
www.newsday.com
By Arielle Brechisci
06-06-2008 / Venezuela
Venezuela - Anti-Semitism group calls for recall of Venezuelan ambassador to Russia
The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Centre says Ambassador Alexis Navarro made anti-Semitic comments. Navarro was quoted by the daily Moscow News as saying that a failed 2002 coup that briefly ousted President Hugo Chavez involved Israeli Mossad intelligence snipers who were "Venezuelan citizens, but Jews."
The group says it wrote a letter to Venezuela's foreign minister saying the comments were "racist" and "incite violence against Jews."
A foreign ministry spokesman reached by phone said there was no immediate government response.
Source:
www.nrg.co.il/
06-06-2008 / United States
USA - Caught on Tape: hate crime at Beth Israel temple
A $20,000 reward was announced for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of two men who were caught on tape spray painting anti-Semitic graffiti on the Beth Israel Temple on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.
They also sprayed graffiti on a police car.
The two suspects involved in the vandalism, which occurred several times between November and January, were described as white men between the ages of 18 and 25.
Source: http://cbs2.com
05-06-2008 / Germany
Germany - Memorial site vandalized
Uidentified perpetrators, most likely right-wing extremists, vandalized the gate and a flower tub in the Belower Wald memorial which commemorates the prisoners of the concentration camp Sachsenhausen who died in death marches in April 1945.
Source: www.european-forum-on-antisemitism.org
05-06-2008 / Australia
Australia - Verbal abuse shouted at Jewish school in Sydney
A vehicle drove past the Masada School and the occupants shouted "fucking Jews".
