Struggle against antisemitism
08-08-2008 / France
France - Sarkozy son files complaint over anti-Semitic graffiti
Jean Sarkozy, the 21-year-old son of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has filed a complaint against unknown persons over anti-Semitic graffiti, the daily Le Figaro reported Friday.
The younger Sarkozy's complaint followed a number of graffiti messages smeared on buildings in an up-scale suburb of Paris, with the message "Sarkozy, thieving Jew" .
A suspect, 63, had been...05-08-2008 / Germany
Germany - a textbook taking on anti - Semitism and prejudices.
Are all the Jews rich? Do Christians hate Jews? Do the Jews really control Wall Street? A new textbook, published in Germany, is trying to deal with this kind of questions and address prejudices, stereotypes, and myths about Jews. In a format
of questions and answers, the authors hope to provide young Germans with the tools to cope with the radical right - wing movements’ anti -...05-08-2008 / United States
USA - N.J. justices add religion jokes to workplace ban
Derogatory comments about a Jewish police officer's religion were more than just teasing and constituted a hostile work environment, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
The decision could have widespread impact, as the court determined that the standard for demonstrating religious discrimination is the same as that for sexual or racial harassment.
The 5-0...01-08-2008 / Britain
Britain - MPs fly to Poland to learn legacy of hate
A group of nine MPs visited Poland last week to discuss combating antisemitism in the country.
The three-day trip was organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) and the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism (PCAA).
It included a visit to the former Nazi death camp at Majdanek and meetings with government officials and Jewish residents.
John...31-07-2008 / Israel
Israel - Facebook: 'Anti-Semitic' group hijacked by Jewish force
An anti-Israeli Facebook group that once had more than 48,000 members is being “destroyed” by a secretive group called the Jewish Internet Defense Force.
The force took control of the "Israel is not a country! Delist it from Facebook as a country" Facebook group and is steadily deleting its members.
The group, which the force claims was promoting anti-Semitic hatred,...31-07-2008 / United States
USA - Man sentenced to 60 days for hate crime, assault
John Fiorentino was sentenced to 60 days in jail and 2 years of probation after he was found guilty last month of threatening three Jewish teenagers with a gun and calling them anti-Semitic slurs during a 2007 confrontation in Lincolnwood . John Fiorentino, 21, told the court his actions after a traffic altercation with the three teenagers were "wrong and stupid of...27-07-2008 / Ukraine
Ukraine - Antisemitism project debuts in Ukraine
The Ukrainian Jewish Committee and a group of young Ukrainians launched a project targeting xenophobia and anti-Semitism.
Using the slogans “Say no to xenophobia,” and “Anti-Semitism - No!" more than 30 members of the Youth, Europe, Future organization with the Ukrainian Jewish Committee protested in Kiev against racist attacks and other forms of intolerance.
The project...24-07-2008 / Russia
Russia - Court fines Bryansk businessman for selling antisemitic film
A court in Bryansk, Russia fined a local businessman 25,000 rubles (approximately $1,000) for selling an antisemitic DVD. Dmitry Kovalyov, owner of the "Patriot" store, reportedly urged his customers to buy the film "Russia With a Knife in Its Back: Jewish Fascism and the Genocide of the Russian People." Source: www.fsumonitor.com...24-07-2008 / Canada
Canada - Man gets one year for hate crime against Jewish teen
Attacking a Jewish girl and the friends who came to her rescue has landed a Muslim man a one-year jail sentence for what provincial court Judge Bill Cummings ruled was a racially motivated assault.
Mustafa Taj, 21, was convicted in May of attacking four teenagers the night of Nov. 3, 2006, while they waited for a C-Train at the Sunnyside LRT station in
Calgary
.
Taj...23-07-2008 / Germany
Germany - Prosecution against chairman of Bremen NPD
The
Bremen state prosecutor indicted Horst Görmann, the Bremen chairman of the right-wing extremist party NPD, for “incitement of the people”. The 55 year old is charged with publishing a text on Bremen NPD’s website containing insults against Jews in November 2007.
Source: www.european-forum-on-antisemitism.org...22-07-2008 / Germany
Germany - District court sentences known holocaust denier to eleven month in prison
On the grounds of “using signs of forbidden organizations,” Cottbus district court sentenced the known Holocaust denier and Neo-Nazi Horst Mahler to eleven months in prison. The 72 year old former lawyer
had used the Nazi salute and greeted his supporters with the phrase “Hail (Heil)!” when entering the jail for previous prison sentence of “incitement of the people” two...21-07-2008 / Britain
Britain - Brown tells Knesset will fight academic boycott of Israel
Gordon Brown became the first British prime minister to address the Knesset, and opened his statements in Hebrew to extend his best wishes to the country as it marks its 60th anniversary: "Mazal tov Israel, shalom aliechem," he said.
Brown, pledged the UK and its European partners are prepared to tighten the sanctions imposed on Tehran should it choose to ignore calls to suspend...21-07-2008 / United States
USA - Man convicted of hate crime for accosting Wiesel
A jury in San Francisco has convicted a 24-year-old man of
accosting Holocaust survivor and scholar Elie Wiesel in a hotel elevator.
Jurors convicted Eric Hunt on Monday of false imprisonment with a hate crime allegation. Hunt also was convicted of battery and elder abuse.
The 79-year-old Wiesel testified he thought Hunt was trying to kidnap him when he was forcefully...17-07-2008 / Russia
Russia - Editor of antisemitic newspaper charged with incitement
Prosecutors in Rostov-na-Donu , have filed charges of illegal incitement of ethnic and religious hatred against the editor of a local newspaper. The editor of Priazovsky Kray faces up to five years in prison if convicted of violating Article 282 of the criminal code for authoring an article in the May 22, 2008 edition of the paper that demonized Chasidic Jews. Source:...16-07-2008 / Britain
Britain - British lawmaker: Europe imports antisemitism
Europe is an importer of antisemitism, a British government official said.
Jim Murphy, the British minister for Europe, says it does so by allowing the Islamic media to broadcast antisemitic content to the continent's citizens.
Speaking at the launch of the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary antisemitism, Murphy added, "The most emblematic claim of this...15-07-2008 / Russia
Russia - Police detain suspects in Orenburg synagogue vandalism
Police in Orenburg detained three young men suspected of vandalizing a synagogue in April. The suspects reportedly have neo-Nazi tattoos and have confessed to the crime. A search of one suspect's apartment reportedly yielded extremist leaflets. Source: www.fsumonitor.com ...14-07-2008 / United States
USA - Man arrested for attacking a rabbi
Pichardo Dearmas, 49, a convicted burglar from
Miami Beach
has been charged under a hate crime law after police say he slapped at a rabbi and blurted: “You Fucking Jew.”
Rabbi Abraham S. Mann, 36, formerly of the Hallandale Jewish Center, wearing a black brimmed hat and black knee, length overcoat, was walking on the Venetian Causeway.
Miami Beach police...13-07-2008 / Britain
Britain - Holocaust denier convicted of trying to incite race hate online
Simon Sheppard claims accounts of the Holocaust are "exaggerated" and describes Anne Frank's diary as "evil" has been convicted of putting articles on the internet that could stir up race hate.
A jury at Leeds Crown Court found Simon Sheppard, 51, guilty of nine counts of publishing racially inflammatory written material on his website between March 2005 and April 2006....11-07-2008 / Russia
Russia – Newspaper editor charged with extremism
Prosecutors in Chita , charged the editor of a local newspaper with extremism. The newspaper “Russkoe Zabaykale” is the official organ of the local branch of the Union of the Russian People, named for a group that led pogroms against Jews in the late Tsarist period. Its editor, Aleksandr Yaremenko, previously received a warning from the prosecutor’s office but continued to...10-07-2008 / United States
USA - ADL fight the next generation of online extremism
Anti-Semitism 2.0, a new explosion of online hate, is extremely dangerous to Jews and to Israel, with antisemitic and anti-Israel propagandists attracting tens of thousands of viewers.
For example, on the extremely popular Facebook social networking site there is a group called "Israel is not a country!!!! Delist it from Facebook as a country!" This group has more than 40,000...
