Struggle against antisemitism
15-05-2008 / United States
USA – The Presbyterian Church “beats its breast” (expresses remorse)
In an official document published early in May, the Presbyterian Church admits to having made use of anti-Semitic- theological motifs in the past in the debate on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Now, the church rejects and renounces the use of the abovementioned motifs and promises to be “on guard” in order to prevent its repetition. It should be noted that the document is the...15-05-2008 / Russia
Russia - Krasnoyarsk Vandals of Jewish Cemetery Put on Trial
Three residents of Krasnoyarsk, Russia were put on trial on charges of having vandalized a Jewish cemetery. The three defendants face the rarely applied charge of “damaging tombstones motivated by ethnic hatred”. The three suspects allegedly vandalized the cemetery on the night of October 7, 2007 after getting drunk . Source: www.fsumonitor.com...14-05-2008 / Russia
Russia - Russian JCC workers attackers were detained
Three people were detained in an attack on two workers at a Russian Jewish community center in Tula. Three days earlier the center in Tula, about 90 miles south of Moscow, had been vandalized with swastikas and neo-Nazi phrases. Source: www.jta.org...07-05-2008 / Argentina
Argentina– school children at SALTA Seminar on the Holocaust
On May 7, a special seminar was conducted to remember 65 years since the Holocaust. The meeting was arranged by the Parliament of the province of SALTA and students from the various schools in the province participated. A member of the local parliament, Monica Luz Petrocelli, included the marking of Holocaust Day in a parliamentary proposal to declare it a day of social, educational and...07-05-2008 / Germany
Germany - Security officials shut down 2 extremist organizations accused of Holocaust denial
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has banned two far-right organizations accused of denying the Holocaust. The minister calls the groups "reservoirs of organized Holocaust deniers" who disseminate anti-Semitic propaganda and praise the Nazis over the Internet. Source: http://www.pr-inside.com/05-05-2008 / Spain
Spain– the Jewish community denounces the expel of a political activist
The Association of Spanish Jewish Congregations (FCJE) has issued an announcement denouncing the Bloque Nacionalista Galego (BNG) decision to expel Pedro Gomez Valdes from its ranks since he also serves as the chairman of the Galego association for friendship with Israel (AGAI). “It is not reasonable that for an entire year Mr. Pedro Gomez Valdes suffered the avoidance,...30-04-2008 / Argentina
Argentina– the Senate declaration in remembrance of the Holocaust
The Argentinean Senate approved a bill proposed by Senator Isabel Viudes in which the parliament expresses its identification, while marking the co - existence day in multi –cultural, in remembrance of the uprising in the Warshau ghetto in 1943 and in honor of the holocaust victims during World War II, so their memory will be preserved. Source: DAIA29-04-2008 / United States
USA - Student charged in harassment of Jewish UND student
Spencer Garness, a University of North Dakota student has been charged with disorderly conduct in the case of a Jewish student who says he was harassed. Spencer Garness is accused of writing "Scott is a Jew" in ice cream on an elevator at UND's West Residence Hall. Scott Lebovitz said his tormentors used anti-Semitic taunts and drew swastikas in the stairwell of his dorm, and...24-04-2008 / Ukraine
Ukraine - teacher guilty of anti-Semitic slurs
Nikolay Yakimchuk, a public school teacher of Ukrainian language and literature in the city of Kirovograd, was charged with ethnic incitement after several students testified that he allegedly said during class that “Jews are bad and impudent people,” that Jewish students are only “taking space in our school,” and there should be “no place for them among people.” In...18-04-2008 / United States
USA - Fairfield teen accused of vandalizing Jewish cemetery
Fairfield police have charged a town teenager, Nadine Sonneville, 18, an alleged Nazi sympathizer, with vandalizing a Jewish cemetery and causing thousands of dollars in damage. Sonneville is accused of toppling gravestones at the Jewish cemetery on Reid Street in Fairfield several times between 2005 and 2007. Police say the girl's personal Web page on MySpace displays a...14-04-2008 / Czech
Czech Republic – distributor of racist posters arrested in Pribram
Police have arrested a man distributing posters with anti-Semitic and racist content in public places around the town of Pribram.14-04-2008 / United States
USA - Youths arrested in Jewish center destruction
Three Norwich youths have been apprehended and charged with wrecking the inside of a synagogue on South Broad Street last week.
Listed between the ages of 13 and 14, the three youths were arrested Saturday after an “involved parent” contacted police with information about the crime.
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http://www.evesun.com/
By: Michael McGuire...13-04-2008 / Czech
Czech- Over hundred people protest in Prague against anti-Semitism
Prague- Over a hundred people took part in a meeting in protest against anti-Semitism, held in Prague, that included a march through the centre of the city and a rally in the upper house garden named All of us are people. The event, organized by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, took place for the fifth time this year. The organizers say it would be enough for the...12-04-2008 / Hungary
Hungary – a demonstration against anti-Semitism in Budapest
A crowded demonstration was held Friday in Budapest against anti-Semites who burned the Jewish-owned ticket agency. The Jewish group had 4000 demonstrators compared to the anti-Semites who only managed to recruit between 500-1000 demonstrators. Attending the demonstration against anti-Semitism were Prime Minister Gyurcsany and his wife, Cabinet Minister Kiss, Defense Minister Szekeres, as...10-04-2008 /
USA- state department identifies certain criticism if Israel as anti-Semitic
The Bush administration has identify red some virulent criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism, as it warns that anti-Jewish attitudes and incidents are on the rise worldwide. In a new study "contemporary Global Anti-Semitism, the U.S. State Department cites Tel Aviv University's Stephen Roth Institute in reporting an increase of serious anti-Semitic incidents around the world. The...10-04-2008 / Russia
Russia - Hate Speech Charges Brought Against Cherepovets Orthodox Library for Screening Antisemitic Film
Prosecutors in Cherepovets, Russia (Vologda region) opened an investigation into the screening of an antisemitic film at a Russian Orthodox Church affiliated library. The library screened the film "Russia with a knife in its back: Jewish fascism and the genocide of the Russian people" throughout 2007, despite the fact that the Federal Registration Service lists it as banned extremist...10-04-2008 / Belarus
Belarus - For the First Time, Vandal of Jewish Cemetery Brought to Justice
Since at least the mid-1990s, dozens of recorded incidents of vandalism against Jewish cemeteries, synagogues, Holocaust memorials and community centers took place in Belarus, none of which resulted in any punishment for the culprits. Now for the first time, a court in that country sentenced a vandal to prison. Two suspects, aged 18-20, were charged destroying four gravestones in...07-04-2008 / Hungary
Hungary – a Neo-Nazi and Jewish demonstration in Budapest
During a demonstration held on April 7th in the afternoon opposite the ticket agency, hundreds of Jews and non-Jews (mostly Jews) stood against 50 right-wing radical fascists, the police separating between the camps and keeping the order. The anti-fascist demonstrators shouted towards the right-wing demonstrators: "Go home, Nazis," and the latter replied: "We're already home." The...07-04-2008 / United States
USA - Two teen girls accused of writing anti-Semitic graffiti at San Jose home
Two 13-year-old girls were cited and released to their parents after writing anti-Semitic slurs in chalk at a West San Jose home. The messages were "derogatory" and anti-Semitic. The news circulated within Congregation Sinai's community, where the victims attend synagogue. Source: www.mercurynews.com By Lisa Fernandez...05-04-2008 / Britain
Britain - English soccer clubs seek to stamp out anti-Semitic, Islamophobic behavior
English soccer clubs could be docked points from their league campaigns as part of a new zero-tolerance policy against fans who engage in anti-Semitic or Islamophobic abuse, the England Football Association (FA) said.
At present, abusive fans face being banned, but this is done by individual clubs rather than the FA, which is keen to extend its powers to impose penalties.
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