Struggle against antisemitism
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...08-07-2008 / France
France - Five held in Paris beating
Police have detained five youths suspected of being involved in the alleged anti-Semitic beating of a Paris teenager. Rudy Haddad, 17, was wearing a kipah when he was beaten in June by a group of young blacks. Paris police have been investigating the possible "anti-Semitic character" of the attack. Immediately following the attack, five other young blacks were held by...08-07-2008 / Russia
Russia - Russia bans book on Hitler saying Nazi quotes insult
A Russian court has banned a book about Adolf Hitler by the late historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, saying quotes attributed to the Nazi leader insult Russians and Jews.
Under anti-extremism laws the court banned the 1953 book "Hitler's Table Talk: 1941-1944", which records Hitler's sometimes racist ramblings on a wide range of topics.
Russia's Prosecutor-General said in a...06-07-2008 / Hungary
Hungary – Antisemitic website ceases to operate
The most famous openly antismitic and extremist Hungarian internet page called www.kuruc.info has disappeared from the internet. The Hungarian authorities had been trying to remove it for some time, but could not, because the server was located in the USA. Since Friday the page is inaccessible and there is only a sentence in Hungarian claiming that the site will be functioning again soon. 04-07-2008 / Britain
Britain– Lecturer resigns from UCU following boycott resolution
Keele University lecturer Eve Garrard has resigned from the University and College Union following its pro-boycott resolution in May. In a letter to the UCU general secretary Ms Garrard questioned why the union should continue to “punish Israel”.
She wrote: “I, like many others, can no longer bear the shame and embarrassment of belonging to an institution which is willing...04-07-2008 / Britain
Britain- Union blocks boycott move
The “Boycott Israel” campaign has been dealt a significant blow after the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers’ (RMT) annual meeting overturned its pro-boycott policy.
More than 40 conference delegates voted for the motion, with seven against and nine abstentions. The delegates voted in favour of a tough-talking but balanced resolution that not only...04-07-2008 / United States
USA - Graffiti investigated as a hate crime
Two drawings of the Star of David, drawn with mustard and what appeared to be glue was found on a driveway in a Forest Hill neighborhood in Harford County, Maryland . Source: www.baltimoresun.com ...04-07-2008 / United States
USA - Chicago man convicted of hate crime, assault for threatening Jewish teens
A Chicago man was found guilty in Cook County Circuit Court of a hate crime and assault after he threatened three Jewish teenagers with a gun and called them anti-Semitic slurs during a confrontation in Lincolnwood last year. John Fiorentino, 20, from Chicago, was convicted of a hate crime and assault after a two-day jury trial. Fiorentino pointed a gun at the teenagers and...01-07-2008 / Russia
Russia - Court gives slap on the wrists to extremists who incited violence against Jews
Three antisemitic extremists who called for violence against Jews and other minorities were given suspended sentences in Blagoveshchensk , Russia. The three members of the local branch of the Union of the Russian People were convicted of inciting ethnic hatred and forming an extremist organization. The prosecution collected video clips, the group's literature, and eye...28-06-2008 / United States
USA - NYPD arrests 4 black teens for stoning bus full of Jewish toddlers
Police say four teenagers have been arrested on hate crime charges for throwing rocks at a school bus full of Jewish toddlers.
Police say the three girls and one boy yelled epithets last month as they broke windows on the bus in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights. The children were not hurt.
The case is part of a string of incidents that have stirred tensions between...27-06-2008 / United States
USA - World Jewish Congress petitions UN on anti-Semitism resolution
In New York, the World Jewish Congress has delivered a petition with 200,000 signatures of concerned citizens from all over the world in support of a UN General Assembly resolution explicitly condemning anti-Semitism. Ronald S. Lauder, president of the WJC, said in a statement: "With these petitions, we are urging the UN to reaffirm the commitment made by then-secretary-general Kofi Annan...27-06-2008 / Britain
Britain - Student leaders pledge to fight campus antisemitism at Manchester University
The newly-elected student council at Manchester University contains a large number of Jewish students who have pledged to fight the university’s growing reputation for anti-Semitism.
The new team will have four Jewish representatives on the executive and another 14 on the student council. One of them, Rob Pinfold, is the new general secretary.
After the elections, Mr...27-06-2008 / Ukraine
Ukraine - antisemitic vandal sentenced in Berdichev
A vandal, who painted swastikas and neo-Nazi slogans on a small mausoleum over the grave of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, in Berdichev, was sentenced to one and a half years in prison. The 20-year-old defendant was charged under Article 297 of the Criminal Code (desecrating graves), but not a hate crime.
Source:
http://www.fsumonitor.com/...27-06-2008 / United States
USA - Teen arrested in swastika incident
A teenager has been arrested in connection with the painting of swastikas on a Jewish family's home. A second teenager is under investigation for participating in the crime. Source: www.centennialcitizen.com26-06-2008 / France
France - French comic fined for antisemitic remarks
A Paris appeals court upheld charges against a French comedian for making antisemitic remarks.
The court fined Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala, known as Dieudonne, nearly $11,000 for referring to Holocaust remembrance as "memorial pornography" at a news conference following a performance in Algeria in February 2005.
Source:
http://www.jta.org/...26-06-2008 / Russia
Russia - Krasnoyarsk cemetery vandals sentenced
Four teenagers were convicted of vandalizing a Jewish cemetery in
Krasnoyarsk
. The defendants faced the rarely applied charge of "damaging tombstones motivated by ethnic hatred"-most cemetery vandals are charged simply with "hooliganism."
They were found guilty of
vandalizing the cemetery on the night of October 7, 2007
. One was confined to a psychiatric institution,...25-06-2008 / United States
USA - Man sentenced to 22 years for synagogue terror plot
One of four men accused of plotting from behind bars to attack military sites, synagogues and other targets in California was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison.
Levar Haley Washington, 30, was sentenced by US District Court after pleading guilty last year to conspiring to levy war against the United States and using a firearm to further the conspiracy.
Two...20-06-2008 / United States
USA - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning Arab censorship and officially sanctioned anti-Semitism.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning Arab censorship and officially sanctioned anti-Semitism.
The non-binding resolution passed by unanimous acclamation "strongly condemns the endemic restrictions on freedom of the press and expression in the Arab world and the concurrent and widespread presence of anti-Semitic material, Holocaust denial, and...
