Struggle against antisemitism
13-10-2008 / Australia
Australia - Jewish group warns about anti-Israel blogs
Members of a Jewish group have raised concerns about blogs written by Australian academics, including one that made a reference linking the "Israeli propaganda machine" to the "Nazi apparatus under Goebbels". While the blogs are set up outside universities, "it is an indication that the classroom offering may be of a similar bias," Dr Colin Rubenstein, of the Australia/Israel and...09-10-2008 / United States
USA - Boy, 15, charged with hate crime in Newport News
A 15-year-old boy has been charged with committing a hate crime after police arrested him as the suspect in an incident of
burglary and vandalism at a Jewish community center
in
Newport News, Virginia
.
The teen, whose name has not been released because of his age, is a Newport News resident. He has been charged with two felonies, burglary and hate...07-10-2008 / France
France – Kémi Séba received a suspended prison sentence of four months
Kémi Séba, the founder of the Tribu Ka organization, an organization of radical black Anti-Semites that was outlawed in July 2006 by Presidential Edict, received a suspended sentence of four months in prison for incitement to racism. In October 2006, Kémi Séba, whose real name is Stellio Capochichi, referred on his internet website, canalblog.com, to the Jewish Student Organization of...06-10-2008 / Russia
Russia - Novosibirsk court gives antisemitic suspended sentence
A court in Novosibirsk , Russia sentenced a former police officer, Alexander Budnikov, to a suspended sentence after finding him guilty of engaging in extremist activity by inciting hatred against Jews and calling for the overthrow of the government. Responding to the lax sentence, defendant Aleksandr Budnikov publicly vowed to continue his illegal incitement on local...01-10-2008 / Britain
Britain - Australian Holocaust-denier arrested at Heathrow
British police arrested
Gerald Fredrick Toben
on charges of Holocaust denial. The 64-year-old Australian citizen was taken into custody upon arrival at Heathrow Airport on charges of publishing and distributing anti-Semitic material and Holocaust denial and revisionism.
An EU warrant for Toben's arrest was issued by Germany authorities. He has served time in a...01-10-2008 / Czech
Czech Republic - Centre against violence, xenophobia and antisemitism to be built in Terezín
A European centre of studies and meetings to focus on cooperation in fighting violence, xenophobia, racism, rightist extremism and antisemitism is to be founded in Terezin . Source: http://www.praguemonitor.com/...30-09-2008 / United States
USA - Nazi prank gets city worker axed
A tasteless Nazi stunt
at a
Staten Island
parks office cost one man his job and will lead to disciplinary action against his two cohorts.
Nick Johnson, who wore a motorcycle helmet with a swastika in front of a Jewish co-worker last month, was fired after a city investigation last week.
Charlie Ekonomakos, who sported a Hitler-style mustache, and...28-09-2008 / Czech
Czech Republic - Two convicted of promoting antisemitism
Erich Sedlacek and Libor Budik were convicted for articles they published in 2003-04 on the Web site called The Last Generation where they worked as editors-in-chief. It says the articles called for the extermination of Jews and denied the Holocaust. The paper says on its Web site that the court on Thursday sentenced Sedlacek to three years and Budik to two....26-09-2008 / Germany
Germany - Three arrested on suspicion of vandalizing Jewish cemetery
Police arrested young three men, all between the ages of 16-20, in connection with the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in Westerstede , near Bremen in northern Germany. The vandals, two of whom confessed to their involvement, allegedly spray-painted antisemitic and neo-Nazi slogans on several gravestones and on a plaque commemorating the city’s former Jewish citizens....18-09-2008 / Russia
Russia - Ulyanovsk court sentences antisemitic vandals
A court in
Ulyanovsk
, Russia sentenced four local residents to prison and fines after finding them guilty of painting antisemitic death threats on the building of the Jewish Community Center. The four were convicted of illegal hate speech after an expert study found that the graffiti was "an open call to kill Jews." The defendants were sentenced to three years in prison, one year...15-09-2008 / United States
USA - Man arrested on suspicion of vandalizing Jewish preschool
Authorities say they've arrested a
Camarillo
man on suspicion of spray-painting swastikas and other hate-crime graffiti at a Jewish preschool and other sites.
The Sheriff's Department says they arrested Jonathan Samuel Latino on suspicion of felony vandalism and a hate crime.
A surveillance camera from one business captured video of a suspect, leading...13-09-2008 / Vatican
The Vatican - Pope slams antisemitism in meeting with French Jews
Pope Benedict XVI slammed antisemitism as theologically unjustifiable and tantamount to being "anti-Christian" in a meeting with French-Jewish leaders in Paris.
"The Church is opposed to every form of antisemitism, which can never be theologically justified," he said, quoting French theologian Henri de Lubac as saying he had understood that "to be antisemitic also signifies being...08-09-2008 / Australia
Australia - Submissions to Senate inquiry highlight campus bias
In submissions to a Senate inquiry into academic freedom, both Jewish and Liberal Party student groups wrote that
cademics rarely portray the Middle East conflict in an impartial light.
The inquiry was requested by Victorian Liberal Senator Mitch Fifield earlier this year and is expected to report in
ovember.
The Melbourne University Liberal Club’s submission...07-09-2008 / Germany
Germany – A thousand Neo-Nazis March in the Streets of Dortmund
Radical right wing activists, mostly dressed in black, proudly strode down the streets of Dortmund waving black, white and red flags. Police secured the event in an attempt to avoid violent flashes between the opposing sides. Passersby who
bserved the marchers called out to them: "Out with the Nazis."
The Social Democratic Party SPD organized a demonstration in response in which...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.
Source:...
...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...
