Struggle against antisemitism
05-07-2009 / United States
USA - Jail sentence for dentist sending antisemitic letter to competition
A dentist from
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
, was sentenced to 60 days in jail and 5 years of probation after pleading guilty to felony ethnic intimidation.
Marc Kamp sent a threatening, antisemitic letter in April 2008 to another dentist with whom he was involved in a civil lawsuit. The other dentist, Steven Moss, is Jewish.
The letter included a picture of Adolf Hitler...03-07-2009 / Hungary
Hungary - Budapest court disbands neo-Nazi Hungarian Guard
A Budapest appeals court disbanded the Hungarian Guard, the private army of the neo-Nazi Jobbik political party.
Thursday's legally binding ruling upheld a non-binding decision passed by a lower court in the capital in December. The Guard has responded by vowing to continue its activities, while seeking legal redress from the Hungarian Supreme Court and the European Court of Human...03-07-2009 / United States
USA - David Irving’s holocaust-denial speaking tour - the show that must be stopped
This July, David Irving, a British neo-fascist and fraudulent historian, goes on the road in the United States, planning to hold approximately one and a half dozen speaking engagements over the course of a month.
Irving’s current tour focuses on "Re-writing history, using the decoded Nazi messages" (see: http://www.focal.org/speaks/index.html). The re-writing of Third Reich history...02-07-2009 / Canada
Canada – York university president condemns the Antisemitic Graffiti on campus
York university president, Mamdouh Shoukri, condemns the Antisemitic Graffiti discovered in York's main library:
''As President of this academic community of some 60,000 people, I and the entire York community condemn this cowardly and hateful act — and all acts of racism — in the strongest possible terms. We are not immune from the world around us, but as a university, we should be a...01-07-2009 / France
France - Life sentence to Ilan Halimi's murderer
The prosecution in France is seeking a life sentence for Youssouff Fofana, leader of the gang that tortured and murdered Jewish Ilan Halimi in 2006. In addition, the prosecution is seeking 20 years imprisonment for Fofana's two accomplices.
Source: AFP01-07-2009 / United States
USA - Colorado paper rues ‘Jewish descent’ description
A Colorado newspaper editor apologized for an article featuring a description of a burglary suspect that some deemed antisemitic
.
The Vail Daily article described the suspect in a house break-in in Edwards, Colo., as being “of Jewish or Eastern European descent,” drawing its conclusion from a description provided by a witness characterizing the man as having “dark hair,...27-06-2009 / United States
USA - Jewish, Latino groups to unite in hate crime fight
A national Jewish organization and a Boston-based Latino group are planning a joint effort to fight hate crimes that target Latinos.
The Anti-Defamation League of New England and the Latino Professional Network will announce the creation the Latino/Jewish Roundtable. The committee will focus on solutions to combat "anti-immigrant rhetoric" aimed at U.S - born Latinos and Latino...27-06-2009 / United States
USA - Police arrest two teens on lower East Side for antisemetic spree
Police arrested two teens who have been terrorizing Jewish residents and sites on the lower East Side with eggs, smoke bombs and swastikas. The youngsters kicked off the antisemitic spree when, armed with a magic marker and a smoke bomb, they scrawled a swastika on a wall at the United Hebrew Center on East Broadway. They set off the smoke device, too, before bolting. An hour later at...24-06-2009 / Italy
Italy –The Italian president: anti-Zionism is Antisemitism
Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu met with the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and told him about his principles regarding the creation of a demilitarized Palestinian state that will recognize the State of Israel of the state of Jews. "For me, anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism" said the Italian President and he agreed with Netanyahu over the fact that Israel should keep being the state of...24-06-2009 / United States
USA - Parks worker suffered "climate of bigotry," judge finds
A judge found that a Jewish City Park worker suffered "pattern of antisemitic harassment" from his co-workers at the Forestry Division headquarters in Castleton Corners.
Judge John Spooner declared today that 40 year-old Alan Spitalnik of Mariners Harbor worked under a "climate of bigotry", where swastikas were written on his locker, co-workers did the goose step, and there were taunts...21-06-2009 / Hungary
Hungary - Hungarians rally against memorial’s desecration
Thousands of Hungarians have paid their respects to Holocaust victims whose memorial was desecrated with pigs’ feet.
In the largest rally, thousands came Thursday to the banks of the Danube River to show that the forces of democracy will not be intimidated by the rise of neo-Nazism.
Leaders of all the parliamentary political parties joined many prominent writers and artists at the...
21-06-2009 / Yemen
Yemen- Yemeni who killed Jew gets death sentence
An appeals court in Yemen sentenced to death on Sunday a man who
shot dead a Jewish compatriot
In March a court ruled the man, Abdul-Aziz al-Abdi, was mentally unstable and sent him to a psychiatric institution, but the victim's father appealed the verdict.
Yehiya Yaish 0 Naharisaid his son Moshe was in the company of four Muslim men...18-06-2009 / Russia
Russia - Newspaper editor sentenced for antisemitic article
The Savelevsky court in Moscow sentenced Yuri Mukhin, editor of "Duel," to a suspended sentence of two years imprisonment after finding him guilty of "publicly calling for extremist activity through the media." The charges stem from an article in which Mr. Mukhin called for "the total destruction of the kike state of Russia" ending the article with the slogan "Death to Russia!" After years of...16-06-2009 / United States
USA - Teens who spray-painted swastikas, racial slurs in Troutdale, sentenced to learn about the Holocaust
Two 18-year-old men who went on a rampage in Troutdale, spray-painting swastikas, KKKs and racial slurs on two churches, tombstones in the Jewish section of a cemetery and parked cars, were sentenced to jail terms of 30 to 90 days.
Both Timothy Charles Feininger and Brendan Scott Mackey pleaded guilty in Multnomah County Circuit Court to first-degree intimidation, criminal mischief and...11-06-2009 / United States
USA - Obama 'shocked' at Holocaust museum shooting
President Barack Obama expressed shock and sadness after an attack on the US Holocaust museum which killed at least one man on Wednesday, saying the killing underscored the need to counter prejudice.
"I am shocked and saddened by today's shooting at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. This outrageous act reminds us that we must remain vigilant against anti-Semitism and prejudice in...07-06-2009 / Iraq
Russia - Four Orenburg skinheads sentenced for defiling synagogue
The Orenburg Central District Court has convicted four locals for painting a swastika on the Orenburg synagogue. The group painted a swastika and nationalist slogans, in all, 12 nationalist symbols, on the facade of the Orenburg synagogue last March-April. The court sentenced one defendant to five years in custody, another to six years in custody, the third to 160 hours of correctional...05-06-2009 / United States
USA - Judge Orders Jewish race hate writer out of the country
Stephen Whittle, 42, of Avenham Lane, Preston, was convicted last year of publishing inflammatory anti-Jewish material on a website.
Whittle skipped bail and flew to Los Angeles with co-defendant Simon Sheppard, 51, who was found guilty of similar offences at Leeds Crown Court.
The two sought asylum under America's free speech protections, claiming they were being persecuted for their...05-06-2009 / United States
USA - Obama: Ahmadinejad should visit Buchenwald
US President Barack Obama became on Friday the first American president to visit the Buchenwald concentration camp, where an estimated 56,000 people, including some 11,000 Jews, perished there at the hands of Nazis.
Obama's great-uncle helped liberate a nearby satellite camp, Ohrdruf, in early April 1945 just days before other US Army units overran Buchenwald.
"In his own speech at the...04-06-2009 / France
France - Controversial French Euro-candidate in antisemitism probe
French prosecutors launched an investigation into comedian Dieudonne Mbala Mbala, leader of an "anti-Zionist" party in this week's European elections, after he was filmed insulting Jews.
If charged and convicted of making a "public anti-Semitic insult", the notorious provocateur could face six months in jail and a 22,500 euro (32,000 dollar) fine.
A spokesman for the Paris...04-06-2009 / France
France - Sarkozy slams Iranian leader for holocaust remark
French President Nicolas Sarkozy issued a strong condemnation of new remarks from Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denying the Holocaust.
"The president of the republic condemned the remarks made today by the Iranian president questioning the reality of the Holocaust," a statement from the Elysee said.
Sarkozy had told Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki during a meeting in...
