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26-03-2007 / Russia
Russia - Moscow State University is investigating its teaching standards
Moscow State University is investigating its teaching standards and quality of life, amid student complaints of anti-Semitic and extremist views infiltrating the curriculum.
The investigation into the sociology department at one of Russia's most prestigious universities was sparked when a rare burst of grassroots organizing among the student body last week began to catch the media's attention.
"The dean's office has distributed a brochure to all students which approvingly quotes the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion,' blames Freemasons and Zionists for the world wars and claims that they control U.S. and British policy and the global financial system," a student group wrote in a public appeal. "Studying conditions at the department are unbearable."
Sociology department Dean Vladimir Dobrenkov conceded that living conditions on campus were poor, but dismissed the student's allegations of anti-Semitic and xenophobic content in the curriculum as "full of hints, rumors and half-truths."
Source:
www.jta.org
Date: 26.3.2007
Posted: 27.3.2007
25-03-2007 / Britain
Britain - Britain to tackle campus Anti-Semitism
The British government is expected to reveal a plan this week regarding how it will deal with increasing reports of anti-Semitism on university campuses.
In the wake of recent reports of religious intolerance on British campuses, the government will begin by asking all university heads to institute a zero tolerance policy regarding academics attacking Israel.
A 2006 report from European minister Denis McShane presented to Prime Minister Tony Blair revealed that universities have become a breeding ground for anti-Semitism in recent years.
"During our evidence sessions we heard of Jewish students having anti-Semitic graffiti scrawled on their doors, and of extremist Muslim groups being invited to speak on campuses," his report said.
The government is expected to push for increased recording of such incidents and support contact with Israeli academics.
Source: www.postchronicle.com
Date: Mar 25, 2007
Posted: Mar 26, 2007
20-03-2007 / Russia
Russia - Russian Police Captain Charged With Inciting Inter-Ethnic Hatred
Aleksandr Smirnov of Pikalyovo, Russia (Leningrad region), a veteran of the Chechen wars, allegedly posted anti-semitic and racist comments on his blog and other web sites. On March 2, police searched his apartment and found extremist literature, a swastika teeshirt and extremist DVDs.
Source: www.fsumonitor.com
Date: March 20, 2007
Posted: March 21, 2007
20-03-2007 / United States
The United States – A Three-Year Suspended Sentence for Firearm Possession and Shouting Antisemitic Insults in California
On 20th March 2007, a court in Oakhurst, California handed down a three-year suspended sentence 400 hours community service to a woman for possession of firearms and shouting antisemitic insults at a Jewish woman.
Date: 20th March 2007
19-03-2007 / Germany
Germany- Berlin's police has ordered an investigation after an anti-Semitic incident at a Berlin police academy
Berlin's police chief has ordered an investigation after an anti-Semitic incident at a Berlin police academy has unsettled officials.
In the presence of an 83-year-old Holocaust survivor, an entire class of young police trainees responded to a compulsory class on the Nazi era by saying that they didn't want to be constantly reminded of the Holocaust; they also said that Jews were known to be wealthy, the Berliner Zeitung newspaper reported Tuesday.
The incident happened on Feb. 27, and only by coincidence became known to Berlin's police chief Dieter Glietsch, the newspaper said.
Glietsch immediately launched an investigation and vowed that if the stories were true, "this will have consequences."
Classes on Germany's Nazi past and on xenophobia are part of the curricula of police and military schools in Germany; the classes are mandatory and regularly feature eyewitness accounts from survivors.
One such account was given to the class by 83-year-old Holocaust survivor Isaak Behar, who lost his parents and two sisters in Auschwitz, and for the past two decades has spoken before German police and military trainees. Behar told the daily Berliner Zeitung that he witnessed the anti-Semitic incident, but was not willing to further elaborate on what happened that day.
"I am satisfied with the way the school's teachers and director responded, and in particular by the police president's reaction," he told the newspaper.
Source: United Press International
Date: 19/03/07
Posted: 22/03/07
18-03-2007 / Canada
Canada - Police lay charge in Toronto Jewish centre vandalism
Police have charged a Toronto man with mischief
after three windows at a Jewish day-care centre were smashed.
Jason Belfiglio, 20, was arrested near the Chabad Midtown Jewish Community Centre around 1:15 a.m. Thursday and later released on the condition that he remain at least 100 metres from Jewish establishments, abide by a curfew and appear in court April 22.
At the time of his arrest, Belfiglio was allegedly wearing a T-shirt bearing a neo-Nazi insignia.
Belfiglio, an unemployed high school dropout, denied any involvement in the incident.
Source:
www.canada.com
Date: March 18, 2007
Posted: March 20 2007
17-03-2007 / United States
USA – Man arrested for sending antisemitic mail to Jewish center in Florida
A five-month probe into antisemitic and racist letters sent to the Jewish Center of Venice ended with the arrest of a 49 year-old man. The center received two letters in October with swastikas and the texts "This sick Nazi" and "Confessions from a true Nazi".
Source: HeraldTribune.com
Date: 17 March 2007
Posted: 19/03/07
17-03-2007 / Russia
Russia– The Arrest of Nationalist Leaders for Distributing Antisemitic Films
On 17th March 2007, three leading activist in the "Russian Resistance Movement" were arrested by police and brought in for interrogation by the Prosecution on suspicion of distributing the antisemitic film "Russia with a Knife in its Back". A search of their homes uncovered large quantities of nationalist literature.
Date: March 17, 2007
16-03-2007 / Germany
Germany– A Holocaust Denier Sentenced to Two Years in Prison
A German court has convicted a 42-year-old German citizen and sentenced him to two years in prison. The man, Grammer Rudolf, had already been convicted in Germany of denying the Holocaust in 1995 and sentenced to 14 months in prison, but managed to escape to the United States before his imprisonment. He was sent back to Germany from the United States in 2005, and now the court has once again sentenced him.
The court in Mannheim convicted him of denying the existence of the Holocaust in a research paper that he published in which he claimed that Hitler had not murdered Jews in the Auschwitz extermination camp. The court also convicted him of disseminating his ideas over the Internet claiming that the Holocaust was a concoction.
As mentioned, already in 1995 Rudolf had been convicted of denying the Holocaust and sentenced to 14 months in prison, but "disappeared" before beginning to serve his sentence. In 2000, he appeared in the United States and requested political asylum. He also approached the American immigration authorities and requested American citizenship based on his marriage to an American citizen. This request was denied and he was expelled back to Germany to serve his sentence. In April 2006, Rudolf was once again convicted of the crimes for which he had been convicted in 1995, and now he has been convicted again.
Date: 16/03/07
Posted: 25/03/07
15-03-2007 / South Korea
South Korea - Publisher to pull best-selling comic book accused of anti-Semitism from stores
A South Korean publisher agreed to
withdraw a best-selling children's book from stores after meeting with Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center who accused the author of spreading messages echoing Nazi propaganda.
Source: The International Herald Tribune
Date: March 15, 2007
Posted: March 15, 2007
14-03-2007 / Belgium
EU - European Parliament Reprimands Polish Member for Anti-Semitism
The European Parliament reprimanded a Polish member for making anti-Semitic comments
in a paper bearing the assembly's logo, the first-ever such sanction.
The 27-nation European Union legislature rebuked Maciej Giertych for writing that Jews “form the ghettos themselves” and “it was only Hitler's Germany that created the concept of forced separation.” The 33-page paper, published in February, is titled “Civilisations at war in Europe.”
Giertych's tract is “a serious breach of fundamental rights,” Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering, a German Christian Democrat, told the 785-seat assembly today in Strasbourg, France. “Tolerance and respect for others are important European values.”
Source:
www.bloomberg.com
Date: March 14, 2007
By Jonathan Stearns
Posted: March 14, 2007
14-03-2007 / Poland
Poland - Poland's Senate honors woman who saved 2,500 Jewish children from Holocaust
Irena Sendler saved nearly 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis, organizing a ring of 20 Poles to smuggle them out of the Warsaw Ghetto in baskets and ambulances.
The Nazis arrested her, but she didn't talk under torture. After she survived the war, she expressed regret – for doing too little.
Lawmakers in Poland's Senate disagreed Wednesday, unanimously passing a resolution honoring her and the Polish underground's Council for Assisting Jews, of which her ring of mostly Roman Catholics was a part.
Sendler, now 97 and living in a Warsaw nursing home, was too frail to attend but sent a letter read by Elzbieta Ficowska, one of the children she rescued.
“Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this Earth, and not a title to glory,” Sendler wrote. “Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its specter still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget the tragedy.”
Source:
www.signonsandiego.com
Date: March 14, 2007
Posted: March 15, 2007
By Ryan Lucas
Pic: AP
11-03-2007 / Ukraine
Ukraine - Youths arrested over Ukrainian cemetery desecration
Police in Odessa have detained suspected of having vandalised more than 300 tombs in a Jewish cemetery On February 18.
Two of the detainees, both 25 years old, neither work nor study. The third one is a 19-year-old student of a vocational school.
They confessed to their crime and showed the place where they had dumped paint cans and gloves, saying they “only wanted to create a reaction”.
The suspects have been charged and could put in prison for up to three years.
Source: www.ejpress.org
Date: 11.3.2007
Posted: 12.3.2007
08-03-2007 / Germany
Germany - Anne Frank diary burners sentenced by German court
The five men, aged between 24 and 29, were found guilty of incitement and desecration of the dead by a court in the eastern town of Schoenebeck. Two other defendants were acquitted for lack of evidence.
The incident took place in February of last year during a summer solstice celebration in the eastern German village of Pretzien near Magdeburg.
According to news reports, one of the men cast the diary into the flames and said: "I commit Anne Frank to the fire," borrowing words used by the Nazis in 1933. They also burned an American flag.
The gathering, which is estimated to have been attended by more than a hundred people, was organized by the Heimat Bund Ostelbien—a group that grew out of an earlier right-wing group in the area, according to the interior ministry of the eastern state of Saxony Anhalt.
One defendant admitted having thrown the book into the fire, saying he had acted alone. The man argued that he had not intended to trivialize Anne Frank's death but rather wanted to get rid of an "evil chapter" of German history.
Source:
www.ynetnews.com
Date: 03.08.07
08-03-2007 / Russia
Russia - Law Student Sentenced for Sending Antisemitic Text Messages
A Moscow law student was sentenced to 150 hours of public service for sending anti-Semitic text messages aired on local television in May. Andrei Kachanov, 22, was sentenced by a Moscow-area court Monday.
Kachanov sent a series of SMS messages to the Radonezh Municipal Television and Radio Company attacking Jews and other non-ethnic Russians during a May 9 broadcast celebrating Victory Day. The messages were displayed during the broadcast.
In a statement on its Web site, the Moscow Region Prosecutor's office called the messages "an affront to the national dignity of representatives of the Jewish ethnicity and non-Russians as a whole."
Source:
www.fsumonitor.com
Date: March 8, 2007
07-03-2007 / Uganda
Ukraine-arrest of suspects of desecrating a monument in Odessa
Odessa police arrested and charged three men in their 20s who allegedly confessed to the crime.
Date: 07/03/07
06-03-2007 / Australia
Australia - Three face charges over attack on Jewish man
Three men will be charged over an
alleged attack on an Orthodox Jew in Melbourne last year.
Menachem Vorchheimer, 33, was walking with two of his children on Balaclava Rd, St Kilda, during a religious holiday in October when he claims members of a football club started abusing him from a passing mini-bus.
Police allege a man on the bus snatched the hat and yarmulke from Mr Vorchheimer's head and, when he insisted upon its return, another punched him in the face.
A 23-year-old from Ocean Grove, near Geelong, will be summonsed for intentionally and recklessly causing serious injury, assault and using insulting words while a 28-year-old faces theft charges and a 21-year-old will also be arraigned for using insulting words.
Source: http://news.ninemsn.com.au
Date: 6.3.2007
06-03-2007 / Russia
Russia - Russian Student Sentenced for Anti-Semitic SMS
Russian court sentenced a Moscow University law student to 150 hours of community service for sending an anti-Semitic SMS message to a live television program dedicated to Victory in Europe day.
According to local prosecutors, Andrei Kachanov, 22, sent an SMS humiliating the national dignity of Jews and non-Russians and calling for extremist actions against them to a live television program of the Radonezhye broadcasting company in Sergiyev Posad, in the Moscow Region, May 9, 2006.
The student was found guilty of provoking hatred and discrimination against a religious group through the media.
Source:
www.mosnews.com
Date: 06.03.2007
06-03-2007 / Canada
Canada - B'nai Brith issues indictment against Iranian President
B'nai Brith Canada representatives hand delivered to officials of the Department of Foreign Affairs an indictment drafted by the Jewish human rights organization against the Iranian president on charges of incitement to genocide against the Jewish people. The indictment calls for the following:
- that the Canadian Government immediately announce a ban on the entry of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad into Canada under any circumstances.
- that the Government prosecute him for incitement to genocide against the Jewish people should he show up in Canada despite the ban on entry.
- that the Government go before the United Nations Security Council to request that the issue of incitement to genocide be referred to the International Criminal Court.
- that Canada, a signatory to the Genocide Convention, request that the International Court of Justice find Iran in violation of Article I of the Genocide Convention.
Source:
www.bnaibrith.ca
Date: 06/03/07
05-03-2007 / Britain
Britain - Men are jailed for grave attack
Daniel Coleman, 23, from Thorndyke Avenue, Alvaston, and Richard Fallows, 23, of St Thomas Road, Derשby, had both admitted criminal damage.
The men were cleared of a charge of religiously-aggravated criminal damage, which they had both denied, at a trial at Derby Crown Court in February.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk
Date:
5 March 2007
