Struggle against antisemitism
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...03-06-2009 / France
France - Paris mayor cancels antisemitic party film
Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe prevented a movie theater from screening a film about the Antisemitic Party leader known as Dieudonné.
The mayor “totally disapproves” of allowing a southern Paris theater from projecting the documentary, said mayoral spokesman Laurent Fary.
Dieudonné and co-party leaders were set to attend the screening Tuesday at the Entrepot theater amid their...03-06-2009 / Canada
Canada - Canada launches panel to probe antsemitism
Canada has established an all-party parliamentary commission to probe antsemitism.
The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism will be under the leadership of two members of Parliament, Conservative Scott Reid and Liberal Mario Silva. Eighteen other lawmakers from across party lines will sit on the body.
The commission will begin by accepting written submissions of up to...01-06-2009 / Canada
Canada - Canadian effort will study, educate about Holocaust
Canada will contribute nearly $1 million to a three-year national effort to study and educate Canadians about the Holocaust.
The government will partner with B'nai Brith Canada to invest in the newly-formed National Task Force on Holocaust Research, Remembrance and Education.
The announcement came from Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney, who addressed a...01-06-2009 / Canada
Canada - Canada to allow terror victims to sue in its courts
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Sunday that Israeli terror victims and victims of anti-Semitic acts worldwide will soon be able to sue the perpetrators in Canadian courts.
Speaking at an annual convention held by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Harper said the proposed bill "will allow victims to sue perpetrators and sponsors of terrorist acts, including foreign states"....27-05-2009 / Turkey
Turkey - Man jailed for five months for banning Jews
A Turkish court sentenced a man to five months in prison for "insulting a section of society" after he put up a banner saying Jews and Armenians were not allowed to enter his business.
The ruling, which followed a complaint by a local human rights group, marks a change of public attitude towards minorities in European Union-aspirant Turkey.
Niyazi Capa, who heads a...26-05-2009 / Hungary
Hungary - Hungary to outlaw holocaust denial
Holocaust denial and public incitement of racial hatred will be illegal under constitutional changes proposed by Hungary’s Socialist minority administration. The proposed legislation is being drafted for publication within weeks. The government, preoccupied with the recession that has hit Eastern Europe hard and made Hungary the host of some of the worst neo-Nazi rabble in...23-05-2009 / United States
USA - Suspect arrested in synagogue fire
Mike Bracamonte, 49, was arrested, the day after the fire at Temple Moses. Police said he had not been charged with a hate crime, but they were trying to determine the motive for the fire.
Miami Beach police said that a surveillance camera showed a man using a cigarette to start the fire and then going outside to watch it. Detective Luis Alsina identified Bracamonte as a suspect...21-05-2009 / France
France - Judge censors magazine for torture photo
A French judge has ordered off newsstands a magazine that published a cover photo of a Jewish man who was allegedly tortured by a group of people now on trial for their role in his death.
The magazine, "Choc," which means shock in French, must be withdrawn by May 22 for publishing a picture of Ilan Halimi taken by his captors.
Judge Phillipe Jean-Draeher says the...20-05-2009 / Austria
Austria - Conciliatory tones over Austrian concentration camp attack
The committee that maintains Austria's former Mauthausen concentration camp said it was prepared to forgive the youths behind a neo-Nazi style shooting attack there earlier this month.
One of the youths had apologized in writing, said committee head Willi Mernyi who said he was ready to give the attackers another chance if their contrition was genuine.
"What they did must...
