Struggle against antisemitism
25-02-2008 / Israel
Israel.International coalition against anti-Semitism to be organized soon.
At the end of the global Forum against anti-Semitism Conference, that was held yesterday and today at Israel Foreign Office, the Canadian M.P, former minister of Justice Irvin Cotler and John Mann, the British M.P., announced their intention to organize an international coalition to fight anti-Semitism. This decision is being supported by the Conference leaders: deputy to Prime minister...25-02-2008 / Russia
Russia - Russian neo-Nazis charged in vandalism
Nineteen members of a Russian neo-Nazi group were charged with vandalizing Jewish and Muslim cemeteries. Prosecutors in Tver, a city of more than 400,000 about 140 miles from Moscow, also charged members of the group Russian National Unity with murder motivated by ethnic hatred and assault. On Aug. 5, 2005, the suspects allegedly desecrated approximately 50 Jewish... ...22-02-2008 / Russia
Russia - Suspended Sentence for Painting Death Threats on Jewish Cultural Center
A court in Izhevsk, sentenced a store manager to a suspended sentence of three years in prison after finding him guilty of inciting ethnic hatred and vandalism motivated by ethnic hatred. Nineteen year old Aleksandr Krinitsyn painted death threats against Jews on the walls of the local Jewish community center three times in November-December 2007 before being caught with a spray can....19-02-2008 / United States
USA - LA mayor denounces attack on Jewish campus
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa denounced a Molotov cocktail attack on a Jewish community campus in the city, calling it a "sad reminder" of racism.
"Yesterday's attack ... is a poignant and sad reminder that racism, anti-Semitism and prejudice still exist in our society," Villaraigosa said in a statement.
"In a city defined by unparalleled diversity, hate crimes of...18-02-2008 / France
France - Judge Order Trials for 29 Suspects in Kidnapping, Torture, Killing Ilan Halimi
French judges are sending 29 people to trial for the torture and killing Ilan Halimi, two years ago.
Authorities said 21 of the suspects, including alleged ringleader Youssouf Fofana, would be tried by a youth court, because two of them were minors at the time of the killing in February 2006. Their trial is expected to be held behind closed doors, and is not expected before...18-02-2008 / Israel
Israel - Israel complains to UN over Iranian general's remarks
The Foreign Ministry instructed the Israeli delegation to the UN to issue a letter of complaint and protest to the president of the Security Council regarding the comments made by General Mohammad Ali Jaafari, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
The Iranian general sent a letter of condolences to Hizbullah saying he believed "the cancerous bacterium called Israel"...13-02-2008 / Russia
Russia - Ex-Minister Convicted of Hate Crime
A Novosibirsk court convicted former Press Minister Boris Mironov of inciting ethnic hatred but released him because the statute of limitations had expired.
The charges against Mironov, 56, stem from two articles he contributed to a local election campaign pamphlet in 2003 that prosecutors said contained anti-Semitic remarks.
Mironov served as press minister under President...10-02-2008 / France
France - French police officers face charges over anti-Semitic remarks
Three police officers and two others faced charges of inciting racial hatred for allegedly making anti-Semitic remarks at a bar in the northern town of Amiens.
A judicial inquiry has also been opened against two of the suspects, including one of the officers, for "acts of intimidation against a victim."
The victim in question, the bar owner, filed a writ against the men for...08-02-2008 / Britain
Britain- Warning from the police to the young man who gave the Hitlerian salute in Cheshire.
The police arrested a young man who extended his hand in a Hitlerian salute towards members of the Congregation in Hale and shouted insults. The police gave him a serious warning. Source: Jewish Chronicle Date: 08.02.0808-02-2008 / France
France - Le Pen sentenced for antisemitics remarks
French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was handed a three-month suspended jail sentence on Friday for describing the Nazi occupation of France as "not especially inhumane".
Le Pen, 79, was found guilty of denying a crime against humanity and complicity in condoning war crimes, over the remarks made in an interview with a far-right magazine in 2005.
The veteran National...06-02-2008 / United States
USA - Prayer for conversion of Jews remains troubling despite vatican changes
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said the Vatican's changes to the Latin Good Friday prayer for the conversion of Jews amount to "cosmetic revisions" and the prayer remains "deeply troubling" because it calls for Jews to "acknowledge Jesus Christ as the savior of all men." Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement: While we appreciate...06-02-2008 / Canada
Canada - court hands rare Internet hate crime conviction
A Canadian court handed down a rare conviction to a white supremacist for posting hate material on the Internet, and
blog, police here said.
A judge ruled that Keith Francis William (Bill) Noble, 31, did "willfully promote hatred against identifiable groups, namely Jews, Blacks, homosexual or gay persons, non-whites and persons of mixed race or ethnic origin," said a police...05-02-2008 / Ukraine
Ukraine – The Ukrainian President is committed to treat anti-Semitism
Chairman of the Jewish agency Zeev Bialsky has meat the Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko, and discussed with him the issue of anti Semitism in the Ukraine. The president has expressed his deep commitment to tackle the anti Semite occurrences in the Ukraine. Other participants In the meeting were the General Manager of the Israeli Foreign Ministry Aharon Abramowitz and the Israeli...05-02-2008 / Hungary
Hungary - Teens admit to cemetery vandalism
Two teens admitted to vandalizing gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in southern Hungary. The boys, aged 15 and 16, painted swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti on the gravestones. They also admitted to similar attacks last month on a Holocaust memorial and a store owned by Chinese immigrants. The attack on the cemetery in Kaposvar, 120 miles southwest of...05-02-2008 / Vatican
The Vatican - Pope removes 'anti-Semitic' text from prayer
The Pope is to rewrite the Good Friday prayer in the traditional Latin Missal to remove derogatory references to Jews after protests that they could damage relations between the faiths.
The Pope has been under pressure to change the wording of the prayer since he permitted the widespread use of the Tridentine Rite in the 1962 Latin Missal last year.
The prayer in the rite's...04-02-2008 / Britain
Britain - Students from every school in Britain to visit Auschwitz
Two pupils from every school in England are to visit Auschwitz in a Government-funded initiative to spread understanding of the Holocaust among the younger generation, the Department for Schools has said.
Teenagers chosen for the visits will meet survivors of the Nazi concentration camp where more than a million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and other persecuted minorities were...03-02-2008 / Germany
Germany – A district Parliament in Germany has removed a Neo-Nazi leader
Yesterday, the Parliament of the District State Mecklenburg at west Pomerania in Germany, has removed the Neo-Nazi party leader Udo Pastors, after expressing himself against Jews immigration to Germany. Udo Pastors, the leader of the NPD party in the District Parliament, demanded to hold a discussion on “the true price of the immigration”, during the speech he carried he attacked the...02-02-2008 / Canada
Canada - New trial ordered for native chief Ahenakew
Canada's Saskatchewan province has ordered a second hate crimes trial against former native chief David Ahenakew.
Ahenakew, 74, who called Jews a "disease" and justified the Holocaust during a 2002 newspaper interview, was convicted three years later of willfully promoting hatred against Jews. Last month, a higher court upheld his appeal and ordered a new trial.
The Canadian...02-02-2008 / United States
USA - Arrest in vandalism at Jewish cemetery
Mariusz Wdziekonski, a member of a neo-Nazi group has been arrested for allegedly vandalizing nearly 60 gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in Illinois this month.
Mariusz Wdziekonski, a 21-year-old Norridge, Ill., man apparently worked alone when he allegedly spray-painted anti-semitic slogans and swastikas at Westlawn Cemetery in Norwood Park Township near Chicago Jan....01-02-2008 / New Zealand
New Zealand – Israel ambassador criticizes news article
Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand has slammed as “outrageous” an article in a national newspaper which called Israel a “terrorist state” and suggested that the Israeli government could adopt the Nazis’ genocidal policy to crush the Palestinians in Gaza.
Yuval Rotem, also Israel’s envoy to Australia, said the column Herald on Sunday by Matt McCarten, a former...
