Struggle against antisemitism
04-09-2008 / United States
USA - Fallsburg man charged with arson, hate crimes
A Fallsburg man was charged with felony arson and hates crimes in connection with a bungalow fire and spray-painted slurs.
Town of Fallsburg Police said Edward Smith, 44, allegedly started a fire at Skopps Bungalows on Seldon Road and
also spray painted slurs and threats.
Police said the investigation is continuing and more arrests are suspected.
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...02-09-2008 / Russia
Russia - Nizhny Novgorod court gives antisemitic vandal suspended sentence
Evgeny Aleshin an 18 year old student who vandalized Jewish graves in the Krasnaya Etna cemetery multiple times over the course of May and June was given a two and a half year suspended sentence. In a rare departure from standard prosecutions of similar cases, the youth was convicted of "mockery over the bodies of the dead and their burial motivated by ethnic hatred" rather than just...28-08-2008 / Britain
Britain - Academic says leaders must confront hatred
Philosophy professor Shalom Lappin, of King's College, London, calls for a more aggressive reaction to antisemitism in a
aper written for the Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism at Yale University.
In This Green and Pleasant Land: Britain and the Jews, Professor Lappin says that increased hostility to Israel, both in public discourse and in the media, is fuelled...28-08-2008 / Russia
Russia - The site "Vkontakte" removes antisemitic community
The popular website "Vkontakte" removed at the request of prosecutors and the Federation of Jewish Communities in Russia (FEOR) profiles of a number of persons
who distribute antisemitic video.
Source:
www.jewish.ru
...26-08-2008 / Turkey
Turkey – Arrest of Antisemitic Journalist
The High Court of Appeal in Turkey sentenced a nationalist Turkish author and journalist, Ergun Peyroz to a year in prison for insults to Christianity and Judaism.
The journalist who is known for his radically nationalistic opinions published two books of conspiracy based on unfounded claims that the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ERDOGAN and his wife are ("Children of...26-08-2008 / Greece
Greece - YouTube removes memorial desecration video
YouTube removed a video showing a teenager
urinating on the Holocaust memorial in Rhodes
.
The video, which was removed, shows the boy urinating but his face is hidden by an Israeli flag with the symbol for "no" pasted over it.
Source: www.jta.org...26-08-2008 /
Europe - Jewish group urges EU to strengthen legislation against racism and antisemitism
The European Jewish Congress (EJC) called on upon the European Union member states to strengthen the existing legislation against racism and antisemitism.
The call follows
the desecration of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
as well as recent acts of antisemitism in countries around Europe.
“We urge the European Union leadership to implement the...25-08-2008 / Russia
Russia - Moscow schools will teach one day of tolerance
Students in Moscow will take part in a "Day of Tolerance" on the first day of the school year (September 1). The course, entitled "We are diverse, that is our wealth," will teach inter-ethnic tolerance and tolerance towards people with different traditions and social classes. Source: www.fsumonitor.com22-08-2008 / Britain
Britain - The Sun pulls antisemitic DVD
Community leaders have praised Britain's biggest newspaper for swiftly removing an advert on its website for the most virulently antisemitic film ever made.
The Eternal Jew, a vile Nazi propaganda film released in 1940, had been available to purchase on DVD for £19.99 in the classified advertising section of The Sun newspaper's popular Sun Local website until it was taken down.
The Sun...22-08-2008 / Canada
Canada - Canadian internet service provider shuts down internet hate site
A quick responding Canadian Internet Service Provider (ISP) has closed down an Internet site promoting antisemitic hate after being alerted by Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC).
When FSWC reported "realjewnews.com" to its Canadian ISP, its content was reviewed and determined to violate the master service agreement as well as Canadian values. Although the...21-08-2008 / Australia
Australia - Officer sorry for not thwarting attack
Menachem Vorchheimer and his children were victims of an antisemitic attack perpetrated by a group of footballers from
cean Grove on October 14, 2006 during Simchat Torah
.
In a statement read on his behalf
, Senior Constable Terry Moore, off-duty policeman who was driving the bus in which the attackers were passengers, expressed regret “that he did not immediately...18-08-2008 / Czech
Czech Republic - 2 tourists were arrested after they salute and shouted "Heil Hitler
2 Spanish tourists were arrested after they salute and shouted "Heil Hitler" in front of the Old New Synagogue in Prague.18-08-2008 / United States
USA - 2-year sentence for confronting Elie Wiesel
Eric Hunt convicted of
confronting Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel in a San Francisco hotel will be released from jail after a judge sentenced him to two years, but gave him credit for time served and good behavior.
However, the judge ordered 24-year-old Eric Hunt to enter into ongoing psychological treatment when he returns to New Jersey and pay a $1,000 fine. He also will be...15-08-2008 / Germany
Germany - A man sentenced to three months in jail for performing “Hitler Salute”
A 24-year-old man was sentenced to three months in prison. The judge saw it proven that the accused had performed the “Hitler Salute” and yelled other Nazi-slogans such as “Jews out!” (“Judean raus!”) Repeatedly at a local carnival event in Krefeld. The sentence was reduced to probation for three years. Source: www.european-forum-on-antisemitism.org ...15-08-2008 / Ukraine
Ukraine - Odessa newspaper editor on trial for antisemitic articles
Igor Volin-Danilov, editor of "Nashe Delo," faces a possible prison term for publishing an article entitled "Kill the Best of the Goys" that, according to the prosecutor, "uses falsified translations and interpretations of the Talmud" in order to present a picture of Judaism as "criminal and amoral" that "insults the Jewish people, its religion and traditions." The paper has published...14-08-2008 / Venezuela
Venezuela - Chavez meets with president of world Jewish congress
President Hugo Chavez met President of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), Ronald Lauder, and the President of the Latin American Jewish Congress, Jack Terpins, pledging to work together against antsemitism and open up channels of communication despite strong differences on Mideast politics.
Both Chavez and leaders of the World Jewish Congress called the meeting a...13-08-2008 / France
France - shopkeeper remanded in custody for anti-Semitic shirts
French authorities have opened a preliminary inquiry into
the sale of T-shirts bearing anti-Semitic slogans in Paris.
The owner of the shop and a saleswoman were taken into custody Tuesday evening, according to Le Monde.
Source:
http://www.cbc.ca/...13-08-2008 / United States
USA – Rep. Howard Berman presented a bill to counter antisemitic and anti-Israel attacks at the UN Durban Review Conference
H. Res. 1361:
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should lead a high-level diplomatic effort to defeat the campaign by some members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference to divert the United Nation’s Durban Review Conference from a review of problems in their own and other countries by attacking Israel, promoting antisemitism, and...11-08-2008 / Lithuania
Lithuania - neo-Nazi charged with incitement in procession
For the first time, a participant in a neo-Nazi march in Vilnius that featured antisemitic and anti-Russian slogans could face prison time after prosecutors charged him with inciting ethnic hatred. Paulus Patsyulyavichyus allegedly participated in the March 11 procession, which featured signs and chants of "Jews out!" and "Lithuania without Russians." Three other marches have been...10-08-2008 / Italy
