Struggle against antisemitism
27-02-2009 / Germany
Germany - Germany may issue warrant for Holocaust bishop
Germany is considering issuing an arrest warrant on hate crime charges against a Holocaust-denying bishop, German Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries said .
Speaking in the sidelines of EU justice ministers' talks in Brussels, Zypries said officials in her country were considering issuing an EU-wide warrant because the ultraconservative clergyman Richard Williamson denied the...27-02-2009 / Vatican
The Vatican - Vatican finds Holocaust-denying bishop's apology lacking
The Vatican said that the apology issued by an ultraconservative bishop who denied the Holocaust was not good enough to admit him into the Catholic Church as a clergyman.
Williamson issued the apology, carried by the Zenit Catholic news agency, in it, Williamson said: "To all souls that took honest scandal from what I said, before God I apologize."
Vatican spokesman Rev....27-02-2009 / Britain
Britain - Diplomat suspended for antisemitic tirade
Foreign Office Minister Gillian Merron told members of Parliament that Rowan Laxton, 47, had been suspended from his job at the Foreign Office and will face disciplinary proceedings.
He was arrested last month on suspicion of threatening to stir up religious hatred, an offense that carries a maximum jail term of seven years, but has not been charged.
He allegedly used foul...
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Britain - JFS bus-abuse teen will have an Ambo until 2014
A teenager who verbally abused a group of Jewish children as they travelled home from school has been given a five-year antisocial behaviour order. It bans the 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, from using the north-west London bus route on which the incident took place in November last year . Last week, Hendon Magistrates’ Court imposed a series of...25-02-2009 / Germany
Germany - Holocaust denier gets 6 year sentence
A former extreme left-wing guerrilla turned neo-Nazi was sentenced to six years in prison Wednesday for calling the Holocaust "the biggest lie in history", a court said.
Horst Mahler, who in the 1970s co-founded the militant far-left Red Army Faction (RAF) and later swung violently far-right, was convicted of inciting racial hatred by the higher regional court in the southern...25-02-2009 / Argentina
Argentina - Holocaust-denying bishop flees Argentina
A Holocaust-denying bishop is on board a British Airways flight back to London after being asked to leave his post by the Argentinian Government.
Wearing a black baseball cap embroidered with the Sacred Heart of Jesus and sunglasses, British-born Richard Williamson reportedly shoved a journalist at Buenos Aires airport as he rushed to board his flight to Britain.
It was...23-02-2009 / Germany
Germany – The leader of the Green Party in Germany: "The Muslim community must deal with antisemitism."
"Germany must seriously relate to the antisemitic tendencies among the Muslim community." The man behind this affirmation is surprisingly a German-Muslim of Turkish origin, Cem Özdemir. Özdemir said this comment during an interview to the daily newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau. "Unfortunately, we must acknowledge the fact that there is an antisemitic thinking trend not only among the...23-02-2009 /
Britain - Declaration to fight antisemitism signed in London
A declaration pledging to challenge antisemitism was signed on behalf of all participating nations on Tuesday, the final day of the London Conference on Combating Antisemitism.
Noting the dramatic increase in antisemitism being disseminated in the media and attacks targeting Jewish persons and property, the London Declaration was signed by 125 parliamentarians from 40 countries....19-02-2009 / Argentina
Argentina – Holocaust denying Bishop ordered to leave country
The Interior Ministry's immigration agency ordered Richard Williamson to abandon the country because he "has concealed the true motive for his stay in the country" because he said he was an employee of a non-governmental group rather than declaring "his true activity" as the director of a seminary.
Williamson's views about the Holocaust created uproar last month when Pope...17-02-2009 / Britain
Britain - UK pledges to combat antisemitism
With the opening of the London conference on combating antisemitism, the British government has reaffirmed its determination to confront antisemitism and commitment toward stamping it out as a global threat.
Speaking at the launch of the two-day conference at the Wallace Collection in central London, Sadiq Khan, Minister for Community Cohesion, spoke of the government's concerns...16-02-2009 / Yemen
Yemen - Prosecutor urges death penalty for murder of Jew
The prosecution demanded the death sentence for the Yemeni Muslim who has boasted of killing a Jewish compatriot north of the capital Sanaa late last year.
The court set March 2 as the date for its verdict against Abdul Aziz Yahya al-Abdi, 39, who admitted in December to shooting dead Masha Yaeish al-Nahari in the town of Raydah in Amran province.
Abdi, peering from the dock...
16-02-2009 / Turkey
Turkey - Turkish nationalist charged over news conference with signs “no Jews, no Armenians”.
The head of a Turkish nationalist group could face up to a year in jail after being charged over a placard he put in his office barring Jews and Armenians from entering.
“No Jews or Armenians are allowed through this door. Dogs are free to enter,” read the sign that Niyazi Capa, general manager of the Osman Gazi Culture Federation, placed in the window of his office of...14-02-2009 / Canada
Canada - Montreal bomber to serve 5 years total
A Montreal resident will serve a total of five years in prison for firebombing two local Jewish institutions.
The judge sentenced Omar Bulphred, 23, to seven years in prison, but gave him 44 months' credit for the 22 months he has already served, so the sentence amounts to another 40 months, just over five years altogether.
Bulphred pleaded guilty to lobbing a Molotov...12-02-2009 / Vatican
The Vatican - Pope says holocaust denial unacceptable
Pope Benedict XVI has told Jewish leaders that any denial of the Holocaust is intolerable and unacceptable, especially if a priest does it.
Benedict said during a meeting Thursday at the Vatican with about 60 American Jewish leaders that he is preparing to visit Israel.
The audience was scheduled after Benedict lifted the excommunication of a traditionalist bishop who denied...
11-02-2009 / Argentina
Argentina - Holocaust revisionist bishop faces legal charges
Richard Williamson, the British-born bishop whose excommunication was reversed by Pope Benedict XVI in January, is now the subject of a complaint before an Argentine federal court.
The 68-year-old bishop stands accused of denying the Holocaust, according to evidence presented before Judge Julian Ercolini.
In addition to Tuesday's complaint, he may face further...11-02-2009 / France
France - French group will charge bishop
A French human rights group says it will press charges against a Holocaust-denying British bishop.
The International League against Racism and Antisemitism (LICRA) said in a statement that it would charge Richard Williamson with "contesting crimes against humanity" and denying the Holocaust in an article published in the German der Spiegel magazine and in a television...08-02-2009 / Argentina
Argentina - Holocaust -denier removed from Argentine seminary
Roman Catholic bishop Richard Williamson relieved as head of La Reja seminary on outskirts of Buenos Aires after drawing sharp criticism from Vatican and Jewish groups for denying extent of Holocaust, Catholic Church official says.
Pope Benedict angered Jewish leaders and progressive Catholics last month when he lifted excommunications on the bishop, Richard Williamson, and three...08-02-2009 / Venezuela
Venezuela - Venezuela holds police, guard in synagogue attack
Seven Venezuelan police agents and four civilians have been arrested in connection with an attack on a synagogue that sparked international condemnation.
President Hugo Chavez, whom Jewish groups accuse of encouraging antisemitism, referred to the arrests and said the attack was led by a police officer who had worked closely with the rabbi at the synagogue.
"What a...06-02-2009 / Hungary
Hungary - PM angry over showing of antisemitic film
Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany slammed a decision by prosecutors not to press charges against the organizers of a
public showing of a Nazi propaganda film last year
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The liberal SZDSZ party had filed a complaint against extreme-right groups for incitement to racial hatred when they organised a showing of the 1940 Nazi film "Jud Suess" last July in Budapest....06-02-2009 / Netherlands
