Struggle
15-05-2007 / Canada
Canada - Shabazz Refused Entry into Canada
The leader of the New Black Panther Party, Malik Zulu Shabazz, has been refused entry into the country.
Public Safety Minister Monte Kwinter said that Shabazz has been put on a plane back to the U-S.
He was turned away by Canada Customs at Pearson International Airport based on a misdemeanor five years ago.
Shabazz, one of the more contentious figures in the U.S. because of allegations of anti-semitism and an anti-police position, was scheduled to speak at Ryerson and lead a rally at Queen's Park after being invited by the group Black Youth Taking Action.
While that group is blaming media attention, they also point the finger at what they're calling the "powerful Jewish lobby" which they suggest holds sway with officials at Queen's Park.
Source: www.640toronto.com
Date: May, 15 2007
Posted: May, 16 2007
08-05-2007 / Russia
Russia- suspect charged with desecrating synagogue in Voronezh
On May 8, Russian authorities charged a 20- years- old man with a hate crime in connection with the vandalism of the Voronzh synagogue. The suspect, who has past connection with right- wing hate groups, was charged with the additional hate crimes statute on top vandalism after admitting to authorities that ha painted a swastika on the synagogue.
Date: 08/05/07
08-05-2007 / Russia
Russia– The Arrest of a Neo-Nazi on Suspicion of Disseminating Antisemitic Propaganda
On 8th May 2007, Aleksander Tcherbiankov was arrested by the police for disseminating Nazi, including antisemitic, propaganda from a storehouse in his flat.
Date: May 08, 2007
07-05-2007 / Russia
Russia– Charges Brought against a Radical Right-Wing Activist for Disseminating Antisemitic Propaganda
On 7th May 2007, the Prosecution decided to bring charges against an activist in the neo-Nazi RNE movement for disseminating racist and antisemitic propaganda beginning in the year 2006 and into 2007.
Date: May 07, 2007
04-05-2007 / United States
USA - Arrest made in Weiss swastika pasting
A 32-year-old man was arrested this morning in connection with the
pasting of swastikas on the district office door of Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss
, according to a spokesperson for the LAPD.
Adonis A. Irwin was arrested about 8:30 a.m. in the 4600 block of Natick Avenue in Sherman Oaks, police said. He was taken into custody without incident and booked on a charge of felony vandalism.
A lone vandal was witnessed early Thursday gluing sheets of paper on the front door to Weiss' office in Sherman Oaks. Three pieces displayed the Nazi flag. Two others contained printed messages, one of which stated "Our policy: we have no time to listen to Jewish American children!!! If you don't believe us, just try talking to us.… Hail Weiss!"
Source: www.latimes.com
Date: May 4, 2007
Posted: May 6, 2007
By Steve Hymon
28-04-2007 / Russia
Russia– Punishment for a Nationalist Who Disseminated Antisemitic Literature
On 28th April 2007, Dimitri Galikhov, a member of the nationalist "National Revival Pact" in Syktyvkar was sentenced to 180 hours of community service for disseminating propaganda calling for acts of violence against Jews.
Date: April 28, 2007
Posted: May 30, 2007
28-04-2007 / Russia
Russia– A Radical Right-Wing Activist Punished for Disseminating Antisemitic Propaganda
On 28th April 2007, an activist in the "National Resurgence Alliance" organization was sentenced to180 hours of community service for disseminating propaganda calling for violence against Jews.
Date: April 28, 2007
27-04-2007 / Italy
Italy - Bishops to battle anti-Semitism
The need to step up the fight against anti-Semitism will be a key issue for the world's Roman Catholic bishops at a meeting at the Vatican next year.
An entire section of a preparatory document released by the Vatican on Friday is devoted to the Church's relationship with Jews, noting the "close associations of the two in faith" and calling for efforts "to overcome every form of anti-Semitism."
The 60-page document, which was approved by Pope Benedict XVI, outlines the suggested topics and includes a questionnaire to be answered by local bishops.
After asking if priority is given to dialogue with the Jews, the questionnaire calls on bishops to investigate the use of biblical texts to "ferment attitudes of anti-Semitism."
"Much has already been done, but everything must be done to dispel every shadow," the synod's general-secretary, Bishop Nikola Eterovic, said during a news conference to present the agenda for the October 2008 meeting.
Source:
www.jpost.com
Date: Apr. 27, 2007
Posted: Apr. 29, 2007
25-04-2007 / United States
USA - Teens accused of trashing synagogue
A group of teenagers are accused of vandalizing a synagogue. It happened earlier this month in a small Greene County village, but was discovered just days ago.
Contractors found the damage when they showed up to work at the Tannersville Synagogue the other day. The rabbi there immediately contacted police and after a quick investigation three teenagers were arrested for burglary and aggravated harassment.
Police say the actual vandalism happened almost three weeks ago. But since its pretty much a seasonal synagogue for the summer and early fall, no one knew about the damage until this week.
“This door was lying off the hinge. They ripped it off. Inside the synagogue, eggs were all over books,” construction worker Jose Colon said.
On the outside there were broken windows and graffiti. At the house owned by Brooklyn-based Rabbi Jeffrey Braun police say the teenagers took a knife to a number of leather couches. Next door at the synagogue's meeting hall you could see a broken air conditioner. The teenagers even shattered the glass backboard of a basketball hoop and covered a number of books with eggs. Broken shells were still on the floor.
The three teenagers are scheduled to appear in Greene County family court next month.
Source:
www.wnyt.com
Date: April 25, 2007
Posted: April 25, 2007
By MATT McFARLAND
25-04-2007 / France
France - France arrests 5 in cemetery desecration
French police arrested five people suspected of desecrating 180 graves at a cemetery in northern France. Police investigators said a quarter of the graves desecrated in Havre were Jewish. The five were questioned Sunday and will be charged later this week, officials said.
Early in April, 53 Jewish graves were desecrated and broken at the Lille Jewish cemetery. A 30-year-old man was arrested and admitted to the act, but his reasons remain unclear.
Source:
www.jta.org
Date: 25.4.2007
Posted: 25.4.2007
24-04-2007 / Canada
Canada - Two arrested in connection with synagogue vandalism
Two men were arrested in connection with an anti-Semitic
attack on a Richmond synagogue a week earlier.
Cpl. Peter Thiessen said he could not comment because "we are still in the midst of an investigation."
But the head of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Pacific Region, said video cameras at the Beth Tikvah synagogue that captured images of the suspects during the April 15 attack were instrumental in identifying the two people picked up in the case.
Source: www.canada.com/vancouversun
Date: April 24, 2007
Posred: April 25, 2007
By Kim Bolan
24-04-2007 / United States
USA - Three juveniles charged with defacing Synagogue meeting hall with swastikas
State Police at Catskill and Hunter Town Police have arrested three juveniles from Hunter and charged them with burglaries at the Tannersville Synagogue on Tompkins Street in Tannersville and with carving several swastikas on a wall and into books, causing extensive damage.
The youths were charged with second-degree burglary and aggravated harassment in the first degree, both felonies.
Source:
www.midhudsonnews.com
Date: April 24, 2007
Source: April 25, 2007
22-04-2007 / United States
USA- Group calls for probing anti-Semitic professor in California
The watchdog, the Southern Poverty Law Center group called for a probe of a California professor whose anti- Semitic writings have long provided fodder for white supremacists. Kevin MacDonald, a tenured psychology professor at California State University , Long Beach, who testified on Holocaust denier David Irving's behalf in his failed 2000 defamation lawsuit against historian Deborah Lipstadt, has published a trilogy of books on the Jewish people. In his books he are "normally a tiny minority in their host countries, they like viruses, destabilize their host societies to their benefit" by pushing "for liberal policies, like immigration and diversity, with the intent of weakening the power of the majority that rules them". The center called for the university to check what MacDonald is teaching in the classroom. MacDonald said that not all instances of anti-Semitic are "irrational, "but added, "I have never talked about Jews in my courses."
Date: 22/04/07
19-04-2007 / France
France - Man arrested after Jewish cemetery desecration in Lille
One man suspected of
having desecrated Jewish gravestones in a cemetery in the northern French city of Lille earlier this month has been arrested and convicted, polices sources said.
Earlier, police said two men of the same family were arrested but later announced that one of them was released.
Some 50 Jewish gravestones were desecrated at the cemetery in Lille on the eve of Pessach, the Jewish Passover.
No graffiti was left on the tombstones but many were knocked down and some broken.
The 30-year-old man, who was arrested on Tuesday in Lille, has been identified by a trace of blood found on a gravestone.
The name of the man was on a national police file with genetic codes after he committed violent acts during a vague of suburbs unrest in 2005.
Source:
www.ejpress.org
Date: 19/Apr/2007
Source: 25/Apr/2007
19-04-2007 / Argentina
Argentina– The President Spoke at Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony
On 19th April 2007, a memorial ceremony honoring the victims of the Holocaust was held in Buenos Aires. The ceremony was attended by many senior Argentine officials, members of the Diplomatic Corps and members of the Jewish community and its leaders. In an address during the ceremony, Argentine President Nestor Kirshner said that the State of Israel is the living proof that the Holocaust indeed occurred (and therefore cannot be denied).
Date: April 19, 2007
Posted: May 6, 2007
Source:
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/
19-04-2007 / Russia
Russia- priests call to remove anti-Semitic liturgy
A group of 12 Orthodox priests have called on their church to review its longstanding theological positions toward Jews and the State of Israel, and excise anti Semitic passages from its liturgy.
The dissident priests made their demands in a 12-point declaration adopted during a weeklong visit to Israel that is meant to spur debate in the Orthodox Christian world and to challenge centuries- old anti-Semitic vies.
"Sadly, there are some Orthodox Christian who propagate disgusting anti- Semitism under the banner of Orthodoxy, which is incompatible with Christianity," said Rev. Innocently Pavlov, professor of theology at Moscow's Biblical Theological Institute.
"We have to raise voices and call on Orthodox laity and the Church leadership to formulate an official position of the Orthodox Church toward our relations with Judaism, as it was formulated a few decades ago by the Catholic Church," he added, referring to the Second Vatican of 1962 to 1965.
The 10- page declaration calls for the renunciation of replacement theology and the removal of anti- Semitic passages from Church liturgy- particularly Easter services- and endorses the eternal connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel. The passages appear in the standard Orthodox liturgy all over the world.
The dozen Orthodox priests who signed the declaration- some in open defiance of directives from church leadership- represent five different Orthodox churches, including the Russian, Greek, Ukrainian, Georgian and Ecumenical Orthodox Churches.
"We came to the firm belief that it is high time for the Orthodox Church to correct its attitude toward Jews and Judaism," the declaration state.
Anti- Semitic passages are most conspicuous during Easter services, and included statements such as "the Jewish tribe which condemned you to crucifixion, repay them, Oh Lord", which is repeated half a dozen times, and "Christ has risen but the Jewish seed has perished," as well as references to Jews as "God- Killer".
Date: 19/04/07
19-04-2007 / Ukraine
Ukraine– A Party is Rejected Because of its Antisemitic Platform
On 19th April 2007, a number of Ukrainian parties: Sobor, Ruki, the People's Party, rejected the proposal by Oleg Tiyagnivok the Chair of the Svoboda (Freedom) Party to form a political union, because Svoboda's campaign platform contains antisemitic elements.
Date: April 19, 2007
Posted: May 30, 2007
18-04-2007 / Spain
Spain – The Operator of an Internet Site Arrested for Spreading Nazi Ideology
On 18th April 2007, a 20-year-old resident of Barcelona, R.E. Aitor, was arrested on suspicion of running an Internet site disseminating Nazi ideology. The arrested was made after a five-month investigation of the site and its operator. A search conducted in the young man's flat turned up considerable propaganda material alongside weapons and computer equipment. He was released on orders from the court and the Internet site he ran was closed down.
Source: Heraldo.es
Date: 18th April 2007
Posted: 29th April 2007
18-04-2007 / Australia
Australia - Footballer fined for abusing Jew in Melbourne
An Ocean Grove footballer has been convicted and fined $1000 for abusing a Jewish businessman.
Magistrate Barbara Cotterell blasted footballer Simon Phillip Christian's "extremely racist" behavior when he was part of an alleged race hate attack last year.
Christian chanted "go Nazis" to Menachem Vorchheimer as he walked to a synagogue with his two young children on October 14 2006, a court has heard.
The Melbourne Magistrates Court was told this morning that Mr Vorchheimer was subjected to anti-Semitic abuse coming from the bus filled with Christian's teammates who had earlier attended the Caulfield Racecourse during the Spring Racing Carnival.
The prosecutor said Mr Vorchheimer had approached the bus and had his two religious hats stolen before he was grabbed.
"As he was being held by the arms, the victim was punched to the face, causing him to suffer an injury to the area around his left eye,".
Christian, 21, of Ocean Grove, told police he had been "caught up in the moment being part of the yelling out the window" and was extremely remorseful for his actions.
Source: theage.com.au
Date: 18/04/07
Posted: 06/05/07
Photo: AAP
17-04-2007 / Uruguay
Uruguay – A New Law against Holocaust Denial
On 17th April 2007, a draft law was unanimously adopted in Montevideo accepting the adoption of International Holocaust Memorial Day as approved by the United Nations in early 2006. The law also condemns any expression of denial of the Holocaust as a historical event.
Date: 17th April 2007
Posted: 19th April 2007
