Struggle against antisemitism
18-05-2010 / Greece
Greece - Three arrested for Nazi slogans at Greek Jewish cemetery
Police arrested three Greek neo-Nazi activists on suspicion of writing Nazi slogans on the walls of a Jewish cemetery in Greece's second city Salonika, a police official said.
The trio, including a 17-year-old minor, are also suspected of having set gasoline alight on tombs in the cemetery, the official said. They were to appear later before a prosecutor.
Swastikas and antisemitic...15-05-2010 / Poland
Poland - Police detain 5 football fans for unfurling large anti-Semitic banner at match
Polish police said Friday that they have detained five football fans suspected of displaying large antisemitic banners at a match in southern Poland last weekend, while the country's soccer federation penalized the soccer club.
The banners were unfurled by fans of Resovia Rzeszow during a match Saturday against local rival Stala Rzeszow. One depicted a caricatured man with a large hooked...14-05-2010 / United States
USA - MSU ”Apartheid Week” antisemitic? You be the Judge
The following disgraceful display of posters and cartoons were displayed hanging from tables lining Ring Road adjacent to the UCI administration building, during MSU (The Muslim Student Union) “Israel apartheid week.
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Britain - Website launched to challenge Holocaust denial
A groundbreaking Second World War website launched to counter Holocaust denial launched.
The site is the brainchild of the historian and documentary filmmaker Laurence Rees, former creative director of BBC Television History.
Mr. Rees has also written seven history books about different aspects of the war, including one to accompany his acclaimed television series Auschwitz: The...11-05-2010 / Canada
Canada - German WWII veteran gets six months for scrawling antisemitic graffiti
An 83-year-old man was convicted of hate crimes yesterday after scrawling antisemitic graffiti and insignia in public areas in Guelph, Ont. Max Mahr, a German native, was sentenced to six months in jail and 40 hours of community service to clean up the graffiti. He's also being put on probation for two years. In his decision, Justice Norman Douglas said Mahr's crimes align with the...08-05-2010 / Germany
Germany - Merkel urges fight against antisemitism
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for fresh efforts to counter antisemitism and to remember the Holocaust on the 65th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazi regime in World War II.
"Fighting antisemitism at the root is a challenge for the whole of society, even if the vast majority of people do not think in an antisemitic way," she wrote in a long piece in the Suddeutsche Zeitung...06-05-2010 / United States
USA - Man pleads guilty to vandalizing Norfolk synagogue
A man accused of placing 60 antisemitic stickers on the doors, windows and signs of Temple Israel Synagogue on Granby Street in Norfolk last year pleaded guilty to the charges Thursday.
According to Amanda Howie with the Norfolk Commonwealth's Attorney's Office, Christopher John Brooks pleaded guilty to one count of injury to cemetery/church.
A Norfolk Circuit Court judge ordered Brooks...03-05-2010 / Norway
Norway - Culture Minister considers blocking Egyptian TV channel
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Huitfeldt, the Minister of Culture, is considering barring broadcasts by an Egyptian TV channel in
Norway because of its antisemitic transmissions.
Al-Rahma has already been banned by the French Media Authority after televising a speech by an Egyptian cleric on 31 October last...30-04-2010 / Britain
Britain - Antisemitic milkman guilty
A milkman who wanted to overthrow the government because he believed it had been taken over by Jews, has been found guilty on three counts of possessing terror documents.
Nicky Davison, 19, of Annfield Plain, Co Durham, was the co-founder of Aryan Strike Force, an on-line extremist neo-Nazi group.
The jury at Newcastle Crown Court took 50 minutes to convict the teenager.
His father...30-04-2010 / United States
USA - Clinton calls Ahmadinejad antisemitic President
Describing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as "antisemitic", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Tehran with its hostile nuclear ambitions poses a threat not only to Israel but the region.
"Iran, with its antisemitic president and hostile nuclear ambitions, continues to threaten Israel, but it also threatens the region and it sponsors terrorism," Clinton said at the...25-04-2010 /
Jewish groups launch new campaign to fight vilification of the State of Israel
The European Jewish Congress (EJC) and the World Jewish Congress (WJC) have jointly launched a new campaign in support of Israel that will battle the attempts to vilify the Jewish State.
The campaign, initiated earlier this week by the WJC on Yom Haatzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, has begun with a project which calls on all Jewish affiliated communities throughout Europe to widely...16-04-2010 / Britain
Britain - UCU’s poster on the Holocaust
UCU has released a timeline poster outlining what happened to victims of the Nazis. It begins:
“Why we mark Holocaust Memorial Day, 27 January…
As educators UCU members recognize our unique responsibility to tell the truth about our past to ensure the lessons are learnt for our future. The millions who died at the hands of the Nazis and their allies during the Holocaust must be...16-04-2010 / Germany
Germany - Bishop convicted for denying Holocaust
A court in the Bavarian city of Regensburg found the British Bishop Richard Williamson guilty of incitement for saying in a 2008 interview with Swedish television that he did not believe Jews were killed in gas chambers during World War II.
The court ordered Williamson to pay a fine of euro10,000 ($13,544).
The Roman Catholic bishop was barred by his order from attending Friday's...14-04-2010 / France
France - France halts Egyptian antisemitic broadcasts
The French government has ordered a local satellite carrier to halt broadcasts by an Egyptian TV channel due to Antisemitic content. The carrier, Eutelsat, was told by the French State Audiovisual Council (CSA) this month to block the Al Rahma channel, which it said violated a law prohibiting “incitement to hatred or violence based on religion or nationality.”
The Council cited in its...12-04-2010 / Italy
Italy - Man sentenced for Jewish lobby list
A Rome court has sentenced a man to six months in jail for having posted a list of 162 academics on his blog and describing them as members of an alleged “Jewish lobby.”
In a verdict handed down Thursday, Paolo Munzi, 42, was convicted of defamation. But he was acquitted of having violated privacy laws and a law against instigating racial hatred.
In February 2008 Munzi posted a list...07-04-2010 / Hungary
Hungary - Hungarian Jews demonstrate against rising antisemitism and extremism
More than 1,000 Jews marched through Budapest's Old Ghetto district in response to a series of antisemitic incidents and the polarized political climate in the run-up to Hungary's elections next week. The marchers defied a police recommendation to keep a low profile and marched through the neighborhood of the Great Dohány Street Synagogue wearing yarmulkes. The police recommendation was...01-04-2010 / Canada
Canada - York University removes antisemitic student
York University in Toronto says a man who allegedly advocated genocide against Jews is no longer a student there.
Salman Hossain had been accused of running a Web site that refers to Jews as "diseased and filthy," "the scum of the earth," "fanatic, genocidal maniacs," "psychotic" and "mass murderers."
The Arizona-based Web site Filthy Jewish Terrorists also said "genocide should be...29-03-2010 / United States
USA - Members of Congress encourage EU commission president to increase vigilance on antisemitism
A prominent group of members of the U.S. Congress, led by Congressmen Joe Crowley (D-NY), Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL), Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Frank Wolf (R-VA) called on the President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso to bolster efforts to prevent antisemitism in Europe. The letter was signed by twenty three members of Congress, who sent it in response to the significant increases...26-03-2010 / Russia
Russia - Russia bans Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'
Russia has added Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' to a list of books that are banned for their extremist content.
The Russian prosecutor general's office said the book has been freely available up to now on several websites and was also sold by some booksellers.
The lengthy 1925 book by the Nazi leader, whose title translates as 'My Struggle', tells the story of his early years and exposes...25-03-2010 / United States
USA - Second hate crime suspect turns himself in
Eugene Police says a man suspected in a hate crime has turned himself in.
Officers arrested Michael Rister who goes by the name "Sweet Pea" in the West University area.
Rister, along with Gary Kehm, is accused of attacking a Jewish man twice in one night.
During the assaults, the suspects allegedly yelled antisemitic slurs at the victim. Officers caught Kehm on Sunday, but they'd...
