Antisemitic events
14-12-2009 / Belgium
Belgium - Three "Hanouccia Car" vandalized at Uccle
Three cars each bearing a Menora (candelabra used for lighting candles of Hanukah) were vandalized and the Menoras were ripped of their mounting. The cars were parked in Avenue du Gui at Uccle, near the Yeshiva (Talmudic school). Source: http://www.antisemitisme.be/ View Larger Map ...14-12-2009 / Spain
Spain – Dudu Aouate was the victim of antisemitic remarks during a match against Osasuna
Each time that Aouate touched the ball during the first half, the Osasuna supporters chanted "Jewish bastard" towards him, despite having received warnings before and during the match that the team may be fined if they use racial abuse.
In the 25th minute, the local supporters decided to vary the taunts and the next time Aouate gathered the ball they chanted at him: "If Munua hit you –...
14-12-2009 / France
France - Antisemitism increases sharply
The French government has appointed a special coordinator to deal with anti-Semitism and other forms of racism.
Daily newspaper Le Figaro reports that Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux decided to appoint a coordinator after a huge increase in antisemitic incidents in the first nine months of the year.
During this period, 704 incidents against Jews were reported, up 350 on the year...
14-12-2009 / United States
USA - Masked men with Nazi flags disrupt Hanukkah ceremony
Pouring rain failed to dampen the spirits of a small group of families huddled on the Sherman Green gazebo to light a menorah on the third night of Hanukkah Sunday.
Neither did three masked men, who carrying Nazi flags and shouting obscenities, tried to disrupt the ceremony until they fled when police arrived.
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14-12-2009 / Moldova
Moldova - A Jewish religious symbol was desecrated
A menora, a Judaic religious symbol, the symbol of the Holy Light, located in the center of Chisinau, in a public place, was destroyed and replaced with a Cristian Orthodox Cross.
Source: http://www.realitatea.net/
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13-12-2009 / United States
USA - Vandals smash car menorah
Unknown vandals in Worcester, Massachusetts, have smashed the car Menorah of Shliach Rabbi Yossi Prus.
"It seems like someone tried to steal our Menorah but didn't succeed, so they hit the car instead," Israeli-born Prus told COLlive.com.
A complaint has been filed with the Greater Worcester Police Department.
Prus said they are treating the case as a possible antisemitic...
13-12-2009 / Austria
Austria - Chabad rabbi attacked in Vienna
A Muslim man attacked a Chabad rabbi as he was conducting the annual ceremony to light the public Chanukah menorah in Stefenfaltz Square in the city of Vienna.
The attacker hurled himself at Rabbi Dov Gruzman, principal of the city’s Jewish school run by the Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement, and began punching him, a local resident told Arutz Sheva.
As the rabbi tried to hold off...
13-12-2009 / India
India - Book in India: Israelis crooks, drug addicts
Catholic priest in Goa publishes book on 'dealing with tourists from Israel,' whom he calls 'druggies' that make real nuisance. He claims Israelis behave this way because they 'go crazy from military service'
This is the impression that young Israelis leave behind in Goa. Indian media outlets reported Sunday on a new book published by a Catholic priest in Goa, a tourist hot spot, that...
11-12-2009 / Hungary
Hungary - Jewish cemetery desecrated in Szekesfehervar
A Jewish cemetery in Szekesfehervar has been vandalized. Crossed Star of Daivd has been painted on 12 graves, 1 statue and an undercroft. Many of the graves have been bent down.
On the wall of a memorial hall, the following sentence has been painted: "We don't need Jewish casino".
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11-12-2009 / Ukraine
Ukraine - Vandals strike holocaust monument
Police detained four youths in Kamenets-Podolsky, on accusations that they vandalized a Holocaust monument. The youths allegedly gathered ritual stones from nearby gravestones at the Holocaust site and threw them at the monument, damaging it in several places. Source: http://www.ucsj.org/ View Larger Map ...11-12-2009 / Ukraine
Ukraine - Mayor keeps up antisemitic rhetoric
In an extensive interview with a Ukrainian news web site, Uzhgorod mayor Sergey Ratushnyak again made several antisemitic statements. The December 3, 2009 interview published on Rupor.info featured the mayor defending his use of the word "zhid" ("Yid" in Ukrainian and Russian) ,and his claims that Jews control the Ukrainian media. According to the mayor, a group of Ukrainian "Jewish clans"...
10-12-2009 / The Palestinian authority
The Palestinian Authority - Hamas's film shows the Israeli education system as racist
Hamas children's television program shows stereotypical Jews and the Israeli education system as racist.
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08-12-2009 / Ukraine
Ukraine – Elections with an antisemitic flavor
A vicious wave of antisemitism and nationalism is currently sweeping across Ukraine which is in the midst of a lively presidential election campaign, involving no less than 18 candidates.
One of the candidates, Sergey Ratushniak, is leading an antisemitic campaign that accuses the Jews of taking control of the Ukrainian economy. The recent period, during which Ratushniak has been making...
08-12-2009 / Egypt
Egypt - Egypt's leaders have a blind spot for antsemitism; 'business as usual' attitude could hamper egypt's regional leader
At a time when the United States is looking to Egypt to play a critical role in bringing about a new era of reconciliation and partnership between the Muslim world and the West, an attitude of "business as usual" persists among Egyptian leaders toward the incessant drumbeat of antsemitism in the media and society, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
In a report on Antsemitism in...
08-12-2009 / United States
USA - Racist group targets school newspapers
Two high school newspapers unknowingly ran an advertisement from an organization called Victory Forever, which states its purpose is to "disseminate white resistance music as widely as possible around the world." The incidents have angered some community members and have left educators wondering what they can do if they are victimized by false or misleading ads.
The group ran...
08-12-2009 / United States
Syria - Antisemitic propaganda employing The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in a recent radio broadcast from Damascus
On December 1, 2009, at 19:07 in the evening, Radio Damascus broadcast particularly offensive anti-Semitic propaganda employing The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and reviling Jewish religious figures. The commentator was the well-known Faez Qandil, who broadcasts the “voice of Palestine” corner on Radio Damascus’ “Discussion of the Day” program. He said the following:
i) He...
07-12-2009 / Russia
Russia – Antisemitic graffiti
In the city of Troitsk, located in the Moscow County, antisemitic graffiti as well as swastikas have been sprayed on two stores. The graffitis have been sprayed on the signs of the "Expret" ("Эксперт") and the "Eldorado" ("Эльдорадо") stores . View Larger Map ...07-12-2009 / Austria
Austria – The Jews and Israel are to blame for Antisemitism in Hungary
In an interview to the NFZ newspaper, the official representative of the FPO (Austrian Freedom Party), Johann F. Balvany, accuses the Jews and Israel for the constant increase and radicalization of antisemitism in Hungary.
As a result of "the surrender of the country to Israeli capital", "Israeli diplomatic advisors who receive substantial remuneration", "the penetration of the...
07-12-2009 / United States
USA - Antisemitic graffiti found in Worcester synagogue
Rabbi Matthew Berger found an antisemitic symbol outside of the Temple Emanuel in Worcester MA .
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07-12-2009 / Argentina
Argentina - Six tombs vandalized in Jewish cemetery in Buenos Aires
Six tombs in a Jewish cemetery in the Argentine capital were vandalized.
Julio Schlosser, general secretary of the AMIA organization, told the Jewish news agency that the tombs were vandalized in the Liniers cemetery, in the western part of the city.
“They completely destroyed them. They lifted off the lids of the tombs and dug the earth from the graves, something never seen...
