Struggle against antisemitism
28-04-2009 / United States
USA - Antisemitic term removed from state law
A Florida law that dealt with illegal money lending used the term "shylock" when it was passed during the 1969 legislative session. No more.
Governor Charlie Crist signed Senate Bill 813, removing the terms "shylock" and "shylocking" from the old law.
"Harmful terms that communicate hate have no place in our society - and especially not in our laws - and the removal of this...28-04-2009 /
New group to fight anti-Israel boycotts
A new movement to unite trade unions and other NGOs working against boycotts of Israel began operation last week.
Trade Unions Linking Israel and Palestine (TULIP)
is led by labor officials from three continents -
Paul Howes
, national secretary of the Australian Workers Union;
Stuart Appelbaum
, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union...28-04-2009 / Australia
Australia - Written apology over holocaust denial
A man who breached Federal Court orders to remove website material which denied the holocaust has issued a written apology.
Fredrick Toben, 65, was found guilty of 24 charges of contempt for breaching orders not to publish material vilifying Jewish people on his Adelaide Institute website.
At a hearing in Adelaide on the penalty he should receive, Toben said he would submit...28-04-2009 / Austria
Austria - Holocaust denier jailed for 5 years
A right-wing Austrian author was found guilty of glorifying the Nazi era and sentenced to five years in prison.
Appeals were lodged both by the defense lawyer of Gerd Honsik and by the public prosecutor, who found the sentence too mild.
Honsik, 67, was found guilty of "Wiederbetaetigung" - which means "re-engaging" in Nazi era beliefs. The crime is punishable by up to 20...26-04-2009 / Czech
Czech Republic – Antisemitic exhibition shut down
A controversial art show that depicted Nazis wearing the Star of David instead of swastikas
was shut down in Prague within half an hour of it opening after protests from Jewish leaders.
A giant poster and eight large-format photos showing Nazis involved in the anti-Jewish pogroms in Poland, but with the logos on their armbands changed, dominated the exhibition, by a...25-04-2009 / Czech
Czech Republic - Czech police arrest former Ku Klux Klan leader Duke
The Czech police arrested
David Duke
, former leader of the Ku Klux Klan racist movement, in Prague on suspicion of promotion of movements seeking suppression of human rights.
Arriving in the Czech Republic at the invitation of local neo-Nazis, Duke was to give lectures in Prague and Brno.
Duke, a U.S. citizen, is suspected of Holocaust denyel and other Nazi crimes....24-04-2009 / United States
USA - president Obama vows to battle Holocaust denial
US President Barack Obama spoke at a Holocaust Remembrance Day event at the US Capitol Thursday, and said he was committed to battling those who deny the atrocities of World War II.
The annual ceremony was held by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
"To this day, there are those who insist the Holocaust never happened, who perpetrate every form of intolerance," the...23-04-2009 / Argentina
Argentina - 36 skinheads arrested at Hitler birthday event
Argentine police arrested 36 skinheads at an event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the birth of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Police broke into the Central Argentine Club, in the town of San Martin, in Buenos Aires province, while a recital was being held by the local chapter of the neo-Nazi group "Blood and Honour." Police found Nazi-related material, including flags with...21-04-2009 / Switzerland
Switzerland - Following the President of Switzerland and Ahmadinejad meeting, a teacher wrote the President: I am ashamed
Jean-Francois Bussy, a local high school history teacher send Hans-Rudolf Merz a harsh letter denouncing his actions.
In his letter, history teacher Jean-Francois Bussy expressed his "dismay" over his president's meeting with Ahmadinejad, noting that the "intentions and convictions of that man were already known."
"I thus estimate that your meeting with him was a mistake,...20-04-2009 /
Durban 2 - Western delegates walk out of Ahmadinejad speech
Dozens of western delegates participating in the UN racism conference in Geneva walked out of the forum as an act of protest during the keynote speech delivered by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The conference had already been badly undermined by a boycott by the United States and some of its major allies over concerns that it would be used as a platform for attacks...20-04-2009 / Poland
Poland – The Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs: we quit the United Nations conference against racism
The Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radoslaw Sikorski, has announced to the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw that his country was quitting the United Nations conference against racism, conference that was inaugurated this morning in Geneva. This brings to nine the number of countries –not including Israel – that have quit the conference.20-04-2009 / Austria
Austria - Writer on trial for denying Holocaust
An Austrian writer has gone on trial for allegedly defending and promoting aspects of the Nazi era and publicly denying the Holocaust.
Gerd Honsik faces up to 20 years' imprisonment if convicted of denying the occurrence of the Nazis' systematic slaughter of six million Jews during World War II.
The 68-year-old author also was being tried on charges of promoting Nazi...19-04-2009 / Germany
Germany – The Durban 2 Conference: Germany has joined the boycott
The Minister of the German Foreign Affairs, Frank-Walter Steinmayer, has officially announced that his country will not participate to the United Nations' conference against racism, called "Durban 2 Conference" that will begin today in Geneva. A similar message was conveyed earlier to Israel. The decision concerning the participation of the European Union has not yet been...19-04-2009 / Australia
Australia - Holocaust denier found guilty of contempt
Holocaust denier Fredrick Toben was found guilty of contempt in the Federal Court for continuing to publish material denying the Holocaust on the website of his Adelaide Institute.
Judge Bruce Lander ruled that Toben of Adelaide was guilty on 24 out of 28 charges of contempt he faced, after continuing to publish the material in defiance of a 2002 Federal Court order to cease these...19-04-2009 / Netherlands
Holland - Holland joins boycott of UN racism talks
Holland is the latest country to pull out of a United Nations anti-racism conference in Geneva because of concerns the meeting would be used to air anti-Israeli views.
Source:
http://www.abc.net.au/19-04-2009 / Australia
Australia - Australia will boycott Durban II
Australia has joined the United States in boycotting a controversial United Nations-sponsored anti-racism conference.
Foreign Minister Stephen Smith confirmed Sunday that Australia would not attend the Durban Review Conference, also known as Durban II, that opens in Geneva.
“Regrettably, we cannot be confident that the review conference will not again be used as a platform...19-04-2009 / United States
USA - US says it won't attend Durban 2
America says 'no' to Durban 2: The State Department says the Obama administration will boycott a United Nations anti-racism conference next week over "objectionable" language about Israel and the West in the meeting's final document. Spokesman Robert Wood said Saturday that despite improvements from an earlier draft, the changes in the final text do not address US concerns of anti-Israel...10-04-2009 / France
France - Comedian to face trial for antisemitism
A French comic will go on trial next month on charges of antisemitism after he awarded a prize to a Holocaust denier during a comedy show.
Dieudonne sparked outrage when he had an actor dressed as a Jewish deportee present the prize for "unrespectability and insolence" to Robert Faurisson, an academic who has denied the existence of the Holocaust.
Far-right leader Jean-Marie...06-04-2009 / Czech
Czech Republic - Court sentences Neo-Nazis over a rabbi attack
The 3 Neo-Nazis who attacked a rabbi in Prague on 11 November 2008 were sentenced to 5 years probation (if they do something within the next 5 years, they can be arrested for 1 year in prison) VIDEO...03-04-2009 / Russia
