Antisemitic events
04-06-2010 / United States
USA - Swastika, racial slur spray-painted on exterior of Warwick synagogue
The spiritual leader of a temple in Warwick, Rhode Island, found hateful graffiti spray-painted on the building.
Cantor Richard Perlman said Temple Am David has been the target of vandals over the years, but mostly what he called “kids stuff.“
This time, he said the graffiti was more than just vandalism. A swastika and part of the N-word were spray-painted on the side of the...
03-06-2010 / Sweden
Sweden - Stockholm University teacher: to prevent antisemitism Jews should now take a stance against Israel
In a Swedish news debate forum known as “Newsmill” professor of practical philosophy from Stockholm University, Torbjörn Tännsjö recently published his views (in English) on the “Ship to Gaza” event. In the article Tännsjö argues that Jews, due to Israel’s recent actions in connection with the “Ship to Gaza” flotilla, should distance themselves from the state of Israel-...
03-06-2010 / United States
USA - Upper East Side synagogue receives threat to detonate building
NYPD officers did a full building security sweep of Park East Synagogue, including its nursery through eighth-grade school, after the synagogue received a threatening letter in the mail on Wednesday afternoon, officials said.
The typed, unsigned letter, which directly threatened the synagogue and its congregants at East 67th Street, arrived at Park East with the day's mail about 3 p.m.,...
02-06-2010 / The Palestinian authority
The Palestinian Authority – The propaganda that stirs the Arabs, using severe antisemitic terms
Al Jazeera Network launched today, starting from early morning, a special day of broadcasts from the Jordanian side of the Allenbey Border Crossing. The network’s correspondent welcomed and interviewed the deportees that took part in the Gaza flotilla.
One of the testimonies – a particularly harsh one - was that of Zamila Osaima, the Network’s internet correspondent, who was also on...
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02-06-2010 / United States
USA - Israeli blockade of Gaza like "concentration death camp"
Brooklyn City Councilman Charles Barron is denouncing the Israeli commando raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla “a clear act of piracy and terrorism.”
Commenting to City Hall reporter Frank Lombardi yesterday, Barron also assailed the long-running blockade by Israel (and Egypt) of the Gaza Strip, likening it to setting up “a concentration death camp.”
Barron, who has often criticized...
02-06-2010 / Denmark
Denmark - Antisemitic letter sent to the Jewish community
The Jewish community received a threatening and antisemitic letter from an unknown sender. The letter says: "The Party is over. Dear Jews, it began with the dance around the gold calf! In reality, that dance has never ended! Attack on peaceful relief convoy in international waters, 9 killed, more arrested and put in jail. You created the economical crisis, when the Lehman...02-06-2010 / Russia
Russia - Reporter attacked by antisemitic soccer fans
A television news reporter was attacked by a group of soccer fans who reportedly shouted "beat the kikes" during the attack.
Roman Kosarev, a reporter for the English language cable channel Russia Today, suffered a concussion after being attacked in Rostov on the Don by fans of the St. Petersburg soccer club Zenit ahead of the Russian Cup final with Sibir Novosibirsk.
The assailants...
02-06-2010 / Sweden
Sweden – Antisemitic calls to the Jewish Community
Two calls were made to the Jewish Community of Stockholm. The messages were: "what a shame that Hitler didn´t complete his mission, you bloody Jew"! A bomb threat was called in to Jewish Center, with the message "the Jewish Center will blow up today, you fuck!" View Larger Map // ...01-06-2010 / Austria
Austria – Deliberate attack on Jew
A Jewish man was attacked in the 2nd District by 2 Moslems. The assailant firstly knocked off the Jew’s hat and then hit him in the stomach. View Larger Map // // // //]]> ...01-06-2010 / Austria
Austria – Spitting at a Rabbi
An unknown person spat at a Rabbi in Taborstraße in Vienna. View Larger Map // // // //]]> ...01-06-2010 / Austria
Austria - Rabbi Attack
A Rabbi was threatened and insulted (‘Jewish Shit”) near a Jewish School by a Turkish youth and an argument developed during which the youth pulled out a pair of scissors. He subsequently put the scissors back into his pocket but he grabbed the Rabbi by his collar. In the course of the brawl several Turkish men emerged from a nearby Pub and threatened and insulted the Rabbi....01-06-2010 / Belgium
Belgium - Antiemitic insult against a Jew in Brussels
While walking on the streets of Ixelles in Brussels, a rabbi, easily recognizable as such (beard, yarmulke) was insulted as "dirty Jew". Source: http://www.antisemitisme.be/ View Larger Map // // // //]]> ...01-06-2010 / Germany
Germany – Anti-Israeli graffiti on Jewish Council
Anonymous persons vandalized the building of the Jewish Council in the State of Hessen. They wrote on the entrance door "Free Gaza - long live global intifida". In the same building four Jewish organizations are based - the Jewish Agency for Israel for instance.
Furthermore the unknown group of at least four people wrote "Stop the offense against the Gaza-flotilla". On the doorbell of the...
01-06-2010 / Britain
Britain - Ken Loach calls Israel "a racist state"
Award-winning British film director Ken Loach has described Israel as a "racist state" in an interview with the Turkish daily Vakit newspaper. The director said the Israeli state was based on the ethnicity of those who are given automatic citizenship; this in itself is "proof of its racism". Responding to Israeli claims that those criticising Israel are anti-Semitic, Mr. Loach said that this...
31-05-2010 /
The Palestinian Authority - Gaza flotilla participants chanted Islamic battle cry invoking killing of Jews and called for Martyr
On the day before the Gaza flotilla confronted the Israeli navy, Al-Jazeera TV documented the pre-battle atmosphere created by men on board the flotilla, who chanted a well-known Islamic battle cry invoking the killing and defeat of Jews in battle:
"[Remember] Khaibar, Khaibar, oh Jews! The army of Muhammad will return!"
Khaibar is the name of the last Jewish village defeated by...
31-05-2010 / Hungary
Hungary - Jewish cemetery vandalized
Graves were vandalised and a marble tombstone stolen overnight from the Jewish cemetery in Varpalota, western Hungary, the head of the Hungarian-Israeli Friendship Society of Varpalota told MTI.
Gabor Ujvari said that unknown persons had pushed over one and broken seven headstones while a marble stone was found missing. He said it was not the first time the cemetery in Varpalota had been...
30-05-2010 / United States
USA - California teens play “Beat the Jew”
A Facebook fan page outlining a game called “Beat the Jew” has been shut-down. The game, where “the Jew” is chased down the highway, was played by some 40 high school students in Southern California's La Quinta High. Rabbi Posner voiced outrage, while the school principal says the students involved can't even be expelled.
School administrators learned about the...
29-05-2010 / France
France - Car of French antisemitism leader torched
The car belonging to the head of a French antisemitism organisation was burned overnight outside of his house in a Parisian suburb.
Sammy Ghozlan, president of the BNVCA, called the burning of his car "an antisemitic attack and intimidation."
Police said they had opened an arson investigation after Ghozlan filed a complaint.
The vehicle was in the driveway inside the yard of his...
28-05-2010 / Lithuania
Lithuania - Court: Swastikas not a Nazi symbol
The May 19 ruling capped a three-month case involving four men who displayed swastikas at Klaipeda’s national independence parade.
“It is not a Nazi attribute, but a valuable symbol of the Baltic culture, an ancient sign of our ancestors, which had been stolen from them and treacherously used by other peoples,” one of the defense witnesses said, according Russia’s English news...
27-05-2010 / Germany
Germany – Synagogue desecrated
Swastikas and the number “88” – which in Neo-Nazi circles represents the slogan “Heil Hitler” - were sprayed on graves in the cemetery of Staßfurt town.
The German Police reported that the cemetery was locked and the perpetrators probably climbed its wall.
It was also reported that paint samples were taken from the tombs to help detect suspects.
“We immediately called...
