Struggle against antisemitism
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...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
