Struggle against antisemitism
04-04-2008 / United States
USA - Two teen girls turn themselves in after probe into defacement of synagogue
Two teen girls – one a self-proclaimed Nazi - were arrested and charged with spray-painting the Ohav Zedek Synagogue and another building with anti-Semitic words and symbols.
Nora Rynkeiwicz, 18, of Factoryville, and her 17-year-old juvenile friend, turned themselves in to police. Rynkeiwicz, a senior at Wyoming Valley West, told a judge she has been living with her grandmother...
03-04-2008 / Germany
Germany - Berlin trial opens of 2 accused of anti-Semitic attack on Jewish teenagers
Two men went on trial on charges they attacked Jewish teenagers on their way home from school in Berlin, setting dogs upon them while shouting anti-Semitic slogans. One of the two men is also accused of giving the stiff-armed Nazi salute during the January assault. The two, who were identified only as Florian F., 27, and Stefan W., 31, face charges of attempting to cause...02-04-2008 / Poland
Poland – the polish embassy in Israel to YouTube: remove an anti – Semitic film
The Polish embassy in Israel sent an official request to the YouTube offices requesting them to remove two films in which Jews are humiliated. However, Goggle, the owners of YouTube, refused to remove these two films. Marc Skolimovski, the Polish council at the Polish embassy in Israel, was the official who submitted the request to the website management. He also stressed that the...01-04-2008 / United States
USA- congressmen submit resolution against Hamas indoctrination
Crowley, congressmen KIRK, and Mahoney submitted on Foreign Affairs condemning the use of television programming by Hamas to indoctrinate hatred, violence. The resolution stated, inter alia, that Hamas used a Bugs Bunny look- alike to indoctrinate children that he, "will finish off the Jews and eat them, and that Hamas used a Mickey Mouse lok-alike in the same children's program to teach...31-03-2008 / Morocco
Norway - Norway tries suspects in 2006 shooting at main Oslo synagogue
The first trial under Norway's strengthened anti-terrorism laws opened Monday, with three men facing charges related to
a shooting at an Oslo synagogue or plotting attacks on the capital's U.S. or Israeli embassies in 2006.
All three men deny the charges, and their defense attorneys have described the evidence against them as week.
Afan Bhatti, 30, and a second man...30-03-2008 / Slovakia
Slovakia - Slovakia denounces Hungarian Guard, calls on Europe to react
The Slovak Foreign Ministry criticized Hungarian authorities for having made it possible for several hundred new members of the extremist Hungarian Guard to take their oath on Saturday, and called on European institutions to start to deal with the issue.
"There should be no room in democratic Europe for the manifestations of aggressive nationalism, racism, xenophobia,...27-03-2008 / United States
USA – all condemning the Uria Ohana attack
The Uria Ohana attack is still on all headlines in New York: on Thursday, a large press conference was held in the Brooklyn Borough Hall building attended by borough president, Marti Markowitz, politicians from the different religions and representatives of the human rights organizations.
Journalists from the main media in New York were present in the event that lasted for over an...27-03-2008 / Britain
Britain - Racist football chanter was fined
Christopher David Mitchell, 19, was fined £285 at Court for shouting anti-semitic slogans in relation to gas chambers and Hitler at the Barnet-Arsenal pre-season friendly on July 14 last year. He also had to pay £200 costs. Mitchell, an Arsenal supporter from Himley Green, was in the Barnet North Stand surrounded by children and families when he began shouting offensive...26-03-2008 / Czech
Czech Republic – a new educational project for teaching the holocaust was launched
The Light of the Memory educational project on the holocaust was launched in schools all over Czech. The Jewish museum in Prague trained 30 teachers under the guidance of the Christian embassy in Jerusalem and its chairman, Kalos, and with close collaboration with the Jewish museum in Terezin. The Czech children are expected to study not only historic facts but also take part in...26-03-2008 / Hungary
Hungary - Debrecen VSC fined for fans anti-Semitic chants
The Hungarian soccer federation fined Debrecen VSC for anti-Semitic chants made by the team's fans in a game against MTK Hungaria on March 22.
DVSC was fined 300,000 forints ($1,880) and will have to play a home game behind closed doors if similar chants are heard at any of their remaining games.
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Argentina– the objection to appointing a Jewish attorney as the Superior Court Judge of TUCUMAN region was overruled
Attorney CLAUDIA SBDAR is the first woman to be appointed as Superior Court Judge in the TUCUMAN region. The appointment was confirmed on March 27th by a parliamentary committee, which overruled the objection posed by RAUL HASKOUR, claiming that SBDAR is not suitable for the position due to her Jewish faith, which she shares with the region's governor, JOSE ALPEROVICH.
"I believe...23-03-2008 / France
France – deputy governor fired after publishing an anti Israel article
“Even if he intended to publish an article on the Ming vases, he should have notified us, this is the only norm we operate upon”. In a press conference held on Sunday, March 23 at La Rochelle, the governor of Charente-Maritime, Jacques Reiller, explained why his colleague, Bruno Guigue, the deputy governor of Saintes, was fired from duty claiming that the man breached his commitment to...20-03-2008 / Germany
Germany - Jewish group seeks to purge YouTube of anti-Semitic videos
Germany's national Jewish body said Thursday it has filed suit against YouTube and its parent company Google, demanding a court order for the site to be permanently purged of anti-Semitic videos.
Stephan Kramer, secretary general of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said in Hamburg, "we charge Google with aiding and abetting racial hatred and discrimination on its YouTube...17-03-2008 / Canada
Canada - Police launch anti-hate crime DVD
The Hamilton provincial government has unveiled a new DVD to fight hate crime.
It will be shown to schools, youth groups and community organizations as a means of educating people about what hates crimes are.
Ontario’s Minister of Community Safety Rick Bartolucci says another goal is to encourage victims to report them. He notes that 9-of-10 hate crimes currently go...17-03-2008 / United States
USA - NJ Youths Sentenced in Cemetery Desecration
After toppling 499 headstones in January, four teenagers were sentenced in Middlesex County, NJ.
The judge gave the teens, ages 15-17, 18 months probation, plus paying some of the damages, writing letters of apology, serving 100 hours of "community service keeping community cemeteries clean" and attending "a 12-week course studying the Holocaust."
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Australia - Police target Jewish attacks
Victoria Police plans to set up a squad to deal specifically with anti-Semitic attacks and other crimes directed at the Jewish community. Assistant Commissioner Gary Jamieson said that the squad would become an extension of an existing intelligence unit. "We have offered to set up a co-coordinating desk to monitor issues in regards to the Jewish community and have a single...10-03-2008 / Ukraine
Ukraine - Rabbi Dov-Ber Baitman attackers identified
A special unit of the Secret Service and Ministry of Interior Affairs named the assailants who severely beat Rabbi Dov-Ber Baitman, a teacher at the Jewish educational center Shiurey Torah and the anchor of the local Jewish television show “Video-HiTaS,” on Jan. 27. Source: http://www.jta.org/ Date: March 10, 2008...05-03-2008 / Russia
Russia - Antisemite Gets Four Years for Attacking Rabbi in Ivanovo
A young man was sentenced to four years in prison after a court in Ivanovo, Russia found him guilty of inciting ethnic hatred and simple assault. Sergey Novikov and his brother attacked the city's chief rabbi and a member of the community as they were showing around some Jewish guests from Canada on June 2007. He broke a bottle over Rabbi Ervin Kirshteyn's head and assaulted...01-03-2008 / France
France - Holocaust denier verdict approved
The Lyons Appeal Court has confirmed conviction of a member of the European Parliament, Bruno Gollnisch, for questioning the Holocaust.
Gollnisch, a former law professor of Lyons University and a member of the European Parliament has been sentenced to five months suspended jail term and a cash fine of 5,000 euros.
Gollnisch has questioned the gas-chambers run by Nazi...29-02-2008 / United States
USA - Teen Arrested For Racist, Anti-Semitic Vandalism
Fort Thomas Police (Kentucky) have arrested a juvenile for spray painting racist and anti-semitic messages.
Fort Thomas Police say the graffiti started last summer with the initials “e-j” or “l-j” painted near Highland Park, Then a house, a car, and a wall.
Police say the 15-year-old is from that neighborhood.
Source: www.local12.com
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