Antisemitic events
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/
27-05-2008 / Britain
Britain – Verbal abuse in Manchester
Occupants of a passing vehicle shouted antisemitic abuse at orthodox Jews on their way to a synagogue in Salford.
27-05-2008 / Britain
Britain – Swastika on mail of Jewish organization in London
A Jewish organisation raising funds for the Israeli Ambulance service sent a letter to one of its donors with a pledge appeal. When the letter arrived at the recipient’s address someone had drawn a swastika over the organisation's logo.
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
26-05-2008 / Britain
Britain – Antisemitic graffiti at university in Birmingham
Graffiti was found on a desk in a University library that read: "Jewish gals are horny bitches!!! Only want cock in either their mouth, ass, or fanny, even their ears and nostrils!" The graffiti was close to a desk which had previously had "Kill the Jews" written on it.
26-05-2008 / Britain
Britain - Antisemitic graffiti at university in Birmingham
The reporter was in a library on a university campus and saw some graffiti. The graffiti read "Kill the Jews".
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.
24-05-2008 / Britain
Britain – Hard object thrown at Jew in London
The victim, who is visibly Jewish, was walking to a synagogue in South Woodford when the occupants of a passing vehicle threw an object at him. The object was a hardened piece of tarmac. The victim believes that the object was intended to hit him in the head but missed and hit his arm instead.
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
23-05-2008 / Britain
Britain – Rabbi verbally abused in Essex
The victim, who is a rabbi, was walking home from his synagogue in Loughton on a Friday night when he was shouted at from a passing vehicle. It is believed the abuse was antisemitic.
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
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.
