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14-05-2008 / Russia
Russia - Russian JCC workers attackers were detained
Three days earlier the center in Tula, about 90 miles south of Moscow, had been vandalized with swastikas and neo-Nazi phrases.
07-05-2008 / Germany
Germany - Security officials shut down 2 extremist organizations accused of Holocaust denial
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has banned two far-right organizations accused of denying the Holocaust.
The minister calls the groups "reservoirs of organized Holocaust deniers" who disseminate anti-Semitic propaganda and praise the Nazis over the Internet.
Source:
http://www.pr-inside.com/
05-05-2008 / Spain
Spain– the Jewish community denounces the expel of a political activist
The Association of Spanish Jewish Congregations (FCJE) has issued an announcement denouncing the Bloque Nacionalista Galego (BNG) decision to expel Pedro Gomez Valdes from its ranks since he also serves as the chairman of the Galego association for friendship with Israel (AGAI).
“It is not reasonable that for an entire year Mr. Pedro Gomez Valdes suffered the avoidance, stoniness and scheming of his fellow friends in the party because he serves as the chairman of an association that strives to research the Jewish presence in Galicia and form a bridge between the Galego and Israeli people,” said in the denouncing announcement.
Source:
http://www.fcje.org/
30-04-2008 / Argentina
Argentina– the Senate declaration in remembrance of the Holocaust
The Argentinean Senate approved a bill proposed by Senator Isabel Viudes in which the parliament expresses its identification, while marking the co - existence day in multi –cultural, in remembrance of the uprising in the Warshau ghetto in 1943 and in honor of the holocaust victims during World War II, so their memory will be preserved.
Source: DAIA
29-04-2008 / United States
USA - Student charged in harassment of Jewish UND student
Spencer Garness is accused of writing "Scott is a Jew" in ice cream on an elevator at UND's West Residence Hall. Scott Lebovitz said his tormentors used anti-Semitic taunts and drew swastikas in the stairwell of his dorm, and he moved into a fraternity house to escape the harassment.
24-04-2008 / Ukraine
Ukraine - teacher guilty of anti-Semitic slurs
Nikolay Yakimchuk, a public school teacher of Ukrainian language and literature in the city of Kirovograd, was charged with ethnic incitement after several students testified that he allegedly said during class that “Jews are bad and impudent people,” that Jewish students are only “taking space in our school,” and there should be “no place for them among people.”
In 2006 the Court of Ukraine’s Kirovograd region acquitted Yakimchuk of hate crimes charges. After an appeal from the Jewish community, however, the local court brought down a guilty verdict.
Source: www.jta.org
18-04-2008 / United States
USA - Fairfield teen accused of vandalizing Jewish cemetery
Fairfield police have charged a town teenager, Nadine Sonneville, 18, an alleged Nazi sympathizer, with vandalizing a Jewish cemetery and causing thousands of dollars in damage.
Sonneville is accused of toppling gravestones at the Jewish cemetery on Reid Street in Fairfield several times between 2005 and 2007.
Police say the girl's personal Web page on MySpace displays a photograph of Hitler, who she lists as one of her heroes.
Source: www.wtnh.com
14-04-2008 / United States
USA - Youths arrested in Jewish center destruction
Listed between the ages of 13 and 14, the three youths were arrested Saturday after an “involved parent” contacted police with information about the crime.
By: Michael McGuire
14-04-2008 / Czech
Czechoslovakia – distributor of racist posters arrested in Pribram
Police have arrested a man distributing posters with anti-Semitic and racist content in public places around the town of Pribram.
13-04-2008 / Czech
Czech- Over hundred people protest in Prague against anti-Semitism
Prague- Over a hundred people took part in a meeting in protest against anti-Semitism, held in Prague, that included a march through the centre of the city and a rally in the upper house garden named All of us are people.
The event, organized by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, took place for the fifth time this year. The organizers say it would be enough for the evil to triumph if decent people were doing nothing. The participants in the meeting, accompanied by traditional Jewish songs, carried posters condemning racism, and also carried Israeli and Czech flags. Oldrich Stransky, a former Czech inmate of the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) concentration camp, wore the camp inmate's clothing on this occasion. The ongoing rally in the Valdstejnska garden, surrounding the Senate building, is to be addressed by Slovak EU commissioner Jan Figel, Senate chairman Premysl Sobotka and Czech Jewish Communities' Federation secretary Tomas Kraus. The march and the following rally are held to outweigh events organized by right-wing extremists.
12-04-2008 / Hungary
Hungary – a demonstration against anti-Semitism in Budapest
A crowded demonstration was held Friday in Budapest against anti-Semites who burned the Jewish-owned ticket agency. The Jewish group had 4000 demonstrators compared to the anti-Semites who only managed to recruit between 500-1000 demonstrators. Attending the demonstration against anti-Semitism were Prime Minister Gyurcsany and his wife, Cabinet Minister Kiss, Defense Minister Szekeres, as well as social and liberal parliament members and Jewish community heads. Worth mentioning is President SOLYOM, who visited the area during the morning to express his support of the owners, and condemned the offensive actions, saying that no country should accept such phenomena.
10-04-2008 / Belarus
Belarus - For the First Time, Vandal of Jewish Cemetery Brought to Justice
Since at least the mid-1990s, dozens of recorded incidents of vandalism against Jewish cemeteries, synagogues, Holocaust memorials and community centers took place in Belarus, none of which resulted in any punishment for the culprits. Now for the first time, a court in that country sentenced a vandal to prison.
Two suspects, aged 18-20, were charged destroying four gravestones in April 2007. One was found guilty and sentenced to two and a half years in prison plus a fine
.
Source: www.fsumonitor.com
10-04-2008 / Russia
Russia - Hate Speech Charges Brought Against Cherepovets Orthodox Library for Screening Antisemitic Film
Prosecutors in Cherepovets, Russia (Vologda region) opened an investigation into the screening of an antisemitic film at a Russian Orthodox Church affiliated library. The library screened the film "Russia with a knife in its back: Jewish fascism and the genocide of the Russian people" throughout 2007, despite the fact that the Federal Registration Service lists it as banned extremist material. Local prosecutors assert that the film "contains statements aimed at inciting hatred and enmity, and humiliates the dignity of Jews based on their ethnicity, origin, and attitude towards religion."
10-04-2008 /
USA- state department identifies certain criticism if Israel as anti-Semitic
The Bush administration has identify red some virulent criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism, as it warns that anti-Jewish attitudes and incidents are on the rise worldwide.
In a new study "contemporary Global Anti-Semitism, the U.S. State Department cites Tel Aviv University's Stephen Roth Institute in reporting an increase of serious anti-Semitic incidents around the world.
The report warns about the intensification of anti-Semitic rhetoric among governments and international elites reports, which generally refrain from it names some attacks on Israel as anti-Semitism. In addition, the report marks the first time that the U.S. government has made it a policy to apply the label of anti-Semitism to some criticism of Israel.
"Anti-Semitism has proven to be an adaptive phenomenon," the report said. "New forms of anti-Semitism have evolved. They often incorporate elements of traditional anti-Semitism. However, the distinguishing feature of the new anti-Semitism is criticism of Zionism or Israeli policy that -- whether intentionally or unintentionally -- has the effect of promoting prejudice against all Jews by demonizing Israel and Israelis and attributing Israel’s perceived faults to its Jewish character."
07-04-2008 / United States
USA - Two teen girls accused of writing anti-Semitic graffiti at San Jose home
Two 13-year-old girls were cited and released to their parents after writing anti-Semitic slurs in chalk at a West San Jose home.
The messages were "derogatory" and anti-Semitic.
The news circulated within Congregation Sinai's community, where the victims attend synagogue.
By Lisa Fernandez
07-04-2008 / Hungary
Hungary – a Neo-Nazi and Jewish demonstration in Budapest
During a demonstration held on April 7th in the afternoon
opposite the ticket agency, hundreds of Jews and non-Jews (mostly Jews) stood against 50 right-wing radical fascists, the police separating between the camps and keeping the order. The anti-fascist demonstrators shouted towards the right-wing demonstrators: "Go home, Nazis," and the latter replied: "We're already home." The Nepszabdsag newspaper blog reports that the Prime Minister thanked those anti-fascist demonstrators for going out there and protesting; he added that he is very proud of the demonstrators going out on the streets and making it clear there is no room for Neo-Nazis and fascists on Budapest's streets
05-04-2008 / Britain
Britain - English soccer clubs seek to stamp out anti-Semitic, Islamophobic behavior
English soccer clubs could be docked points from their league campaigns as part of a new zero-tolerance policy against fans who engage in anti-Semitic or Islamophobic abuse, the England Football Association (FA) said.
At present, abusive fans face being banned, but this is done by individual clubs rather than the FA, which is keen to extend its powers to impose penalties.
At the meeting in London, the FA said that as well as docking points from clubs, it was also thinking about forcing them to play behind closed doors in extreme cases - a penalty sometimes enforced by other governing bodies abroad.
04-04-2008 / United States
USA - Two teen girls turn themselves in after probe into defacement of synagogue
Nora Rynkeiwicz, 18, of Factoryville, and her 17-year-old juvenile friend, turned themselves in to police. Rynkeiwicz, a senior at Wyoming Valley West, told a judge she has been living with her grandmother in Plymouth for the past several years.
Rynkeiwicz is charged with institutional vandalism, a third-degree felony, for spray-painting racist remarks and symbols on the Ohav Zedek Synagogue. She faces charges of criminal conspiracy for the graffiti on the temple and the vacant Mertz building on Conyngham Avenue.
The charges against the juvenile accomplice will be filed in the juvenile court system.
Source: www.timesleader.com
03-04-2008 / Germany
Germany - Berlin trial opens of 2 accused of anti-Semitic attack on Jewish teenagers
One of the two men is also accused of giving the stiff-armed Nazi salute during the January assault.
The two, who were identified only as Florian F., 27, and Stefan W., 31, face charges of attempting to cause serious bodily harm, incitement and displaying banned symbols of the Nazi era, and face a maximum of five years in prison.
According to the indictment, Stefan W. encouraged his two dogs - which were held on leashes - to go after one of a group of teenagers on their way home from a Jewish high school.
When the student fled, Florian F. unleashed his own dog and sent it after the teenager and gave the Nazi salute, the indictment said.
The 15-year-old victim managed to take refuge inside a bakery, and nobody was harmed in the attack.
02-04-2008 / Poland
Poland – the polish embassy in Israel to YouTube: remove an anti – Semitic film
Marc Skolimovski, the Polish council at the Polish embassy in Israel, was the official who submitted the request to the website management. He also stressed that the films do not represent at all the Polish public opinion but rather that of an extreme party. Leszek Bubel, the star of the films and head of the minor National Polish Party, is a well - known racist who tried more than once to penetrate the Polish political scene but was unsuccessful. In 1995, Leszek Bubel tried running for the office of prime minister and lost. Since then, he has published several magazines that enjoy wide distribution among the Polish Roch kiosk network and which include anti - Semitic messages. Among these magazines, you may find the Protocols of the Elders if Zion, a thick anti – Semitic 100 year old document claiming the Jews are behind a conspiracy to take over the world.
In his letter sent to YouTube, Mr. Skolimovski says that the video clips show the Jews in a degrading manner and proposed to examine them in a human viewpoint so they can be removed from the website. He wrote, “I hope you will find that Bubel’s ideas have no place on your website, as they have no room in the Polish media”.
Google refused to comment on this specific appeal by the Polish embassy or on the Leszek Bubel controversial video clips.
In their response, the company said: “YouTube is a communal website used positively by millions. Unfortunately, like in any other form of media, a minority is found to breach the rules. In YouTube, the rules forbid loading pornographic, enmity and extreme violence materials. We do not want such material on our site and same with the community. When users detect inappropriate material on the website, they may mark it and then it is reviewed by the website team. If found to breach the terms of use then it is removed. Had the user breach the rules time and again, his account is locked. We also cooperate with the local law enforcements when we find the content of the film is illegal”.
By Adar Shalev
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