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21-01-2007 / Russia
Russia– A Prison Sentence for an Antisemitic Newspaper Editor
On 21st January 2007, Ivanov the editor of the nationalist newspaper Russkoe was sentenced to a prison term of two years and four months for his racist and antisemitic articles.
Date: January 21, 2007
18-01-2007 / Australia
Australia - Holocaust denier to face charges
Holocaust denier Dr Frederick Toben will likely be charged with contempt of court later this week for continuing to deny the Holocaust on his Adelaide Institute website.
The AJN understands Dr Toben returned to Australia this week from Iran, where he attended a state-sponsored conference on Holocaust denial late last month. The conference had the support of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel’s destruction.
In 2002, a Federal Court judge ordered Dr Toben to remove Holocaust-denial material from his Adelaide Institute website, an order he appears to have failed to obey.
A representative of Dr Toben’s Adelaide Institute told the AJN that Dr Toben was expected to return from Tehran Wednesday.
While in Tehran, Dr Toben, who served six months in a German prison in 1999 for inciting racism, told the Tehran Times, which supports the Ahmadinejad regime, that the Nazi extermination of six-million Jews and the existence of gas chambers has not been proven.
Executive Council of Australian Jewry president Grahame Leonard said that legal proceedings against Dr Toben would begin as soon the 62 year old returned to Australia.
Other Australians who attended the Tehran conference included socialite Michele Renouf and ACT air services worker Richard Krege.
Source: www.ajn.com.au
Date: JANUARY 12, 2007
By: PETER KOHN
18-01-2007 / France
France - Le Pen's deputy convicted of questioning Holocaust
A French court convicted a far-right leader and member of the European Parliament on Thursday and fined him for questioning the existence of Nazi gas chambers.
The court convicted Bruno Gollnisch, the No. 2 in France's National Front party led by Jean-Marie LePen , of "Disputing a crime against humanity," Gave him a three-month suspended sentence and ordered him to pay a USD 6,450 fine, court officials said.
The court also ordered him to pay USD 71,200 in damages to the plaintiffs, which included the group SOS Racism, and ordered all the newspapers that ran Gollnisch's comments to publish the verdict.
At an October 2004 news conference, Gollnisch questioned whether the Nazis used gas chambers in the Holocaust and suggested that the number of Jews killed during World War II might have been exaggerated. Gollnisch's comments sparked uproar among Jewish and anti-racism groups, and he was suspended by Jean Moulin University in Lyon, where he taught law and Japanese, for five years over the remarks.
Date: 17.1.2006
Photo: AP
17-01-2007 / Canada
Canada – Neo-Nazi website dismantled
The website of the neo-Nazi National-Socialist Party of Canada was dismantled after Canadian law enforcement officials were informed by Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies in Toronto that the website was registered to a Canadian citizen. The site, on an American server idolized Hitler, the Third Reich and included racist and antisemitic materials for circulation.
The former site described the objectives of the National-Socialist Party of Canada which among other things included: “committed to resisting the Jewish/Zionist takeover of the most important social institutions in Canada.
source: CNW TELBEC
Date: 17/01/07
15-01-2007 / Ukraine
Ukraine– Former Prime Minister Calls for Closing down MAUP University
During a visit to Israel in mid-January 2007, Ms. Yulia Timoshenko, former Ukrainian Prime Minister and present Chair of the opposition in the country, stated that she and her Party categorically oppose all instances of antisemitism in Ukraine. Ms. Timoshenko said this during a meeting with Jewish Agency Chair Mr. Zev Bielski, who requested that steps be taken to close down MAUP University, a hotbed of antisemitism her country. Timoshenko said that it was absolutely disgraceful that that institution continues to exist, and that it must be wiped off the face of the earth.
Mr. Bielski said that Ukraine is one of the leading countries in the world in spheres of antisemitism and of violent incidents connected with it.
By: Yaffa Goldstein
Date: 16th January 2007
14-01-2007 / Hungary
Hungary - Hungary and Israel Sign Holocaust Education Agreement
Hungary and Israel agreed to further improve Hungary's Holocaust education. Hungarian State Secretary for International Affairs at the Ministry of Education and Culture Katalin Bogyay told that her delegation signed a special agreement in Jerusalem with Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, the Yad Vashem Institute.
"With the Yad Vashem Institute we have a program for ten years now and we will renew that. It is very important for teachers to learn how to teach the Holocaust. And this Yad Vashem agreement is about finding the right tools for Holocaust education," she said.
Date: 14.1.07
Picture: www.papiruszportal.hu
12-01-2007 / Ireland
Ireland - Schizophrenic given suspended sentence for sending anti-Semitic emails
David Hughes appeared before District Court to face 23 charges relating to offences on dates between the 7th and 30th of May last year.
The court had previously heard that David Hughes had no history of anti-Semitism up to a year before and the offences were a symptom of his mental illness.
Hughes was given a six months suspended sentence on his own bond of 100 euro, on condition that he continues to attend psychiatric services.
Source: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Date:12/01/07
11-01-2007 / Poland
Poland - Anti-Semitic bookstore’s demise literature
The Antyk bookstore which was a symbol of some of the last remaining vestiges of Jewish-Catholic tension closed down in October. The literature sold in the store claimed that Jews controlled the world, collaborated with the Nazis and are the enemies of Polish national interests. The store operated in the All Saints Church in Warsaw directly across from Warsaw’s Nozyk synagogue and was opened in 1997 by an extreme right politician. A new vicar to the parish did not renew the bookstore’s lease on grounds that it did not represent the new Catholic policy.
In the picture: Catholic Pole Zuzanna Radzik holds anti-Semitic books from the Antyk bookstore, which she had pressed to have closed.
By Dinah A. Spritzer
Date: 11.1.2007
11-01-2007 / Britain
Britain - Girls Convicted Of Bus Attack
Two 14-year-old girls from Edgware were found guilty of robbery and attempted robbery at Harrow Crown Court last Friday, after robbing a Jewish teenager, leaving her unconscious and with facial injuries.
The victim and her friend, who were traveling on a bus, were asked if they are “Jewish or English.” She replied that she was English and was then attacked and robbed.
Source: www.totallyjewish.com
Date:11/01/07
11-01-2007 / Russia
Russia - Ulyanovsk Mayor Reaches Out to Jewish Community after Anti Semitic Act
The Mayor of Ulyanovsk paid a visit to the local Synagogue
,
following a recent Anti Semitic attack. The mayor guaranteed Rabbi Yosef Marozov, that the local law enforcement will do their utmost to pursue the attackers and protect the safety of the members of the Jewish community and their property.
In a gesture of friendship the mayor presented a silver jug from the city to Rabbi Marozov and the Rabbi in turn gave the Mayor a silver Menorah.
Source: www.fjc.ru
Date: January 11 2007
10-01-2007 / Finland
Finland - Newspaper editors fined for publishing anti-Semitic letter
Porvoo District Court imposed fines for incitement against an ethnic group on the deputy editor of the regional newspaper Uusimaa and a man from Porvoo for the publication of a letter seen as anti-Semitic. Also fined in the case was the editor-in-chief of the leftist newspaper Kansan Uutiset, which published the same letter. The case stems from a letter written by the man, which was published in July by both newspapers. The writer wrote that the persecution of Jews by the Third Reich was a desirable measure.
In the photo - Janne Mäkinen (right), editor-in-chief of Kansan Uutiset at his trial in Porvoo.
Sate: 10.1.2007
Photo: ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO / LEHTIKUVA
09-01-2007 / Russia
Russia - Ex-Russian Press Minister Faces Judge
Former Russian Press Minister Boris Mironov appeared before a judge to plead innocent to charges of instigating ethnic violence in Siberia. Mironov, who was fired from his high-level post in 1994, was arrested in Moscow last month on charges stemming from his alleged use of anti-Semitic rhetoric during his 2003 campaign for regional governor.
Date: Jan 9, 2007
06-01-2007 / United States
USA - Menorah kicker arrested for hate crime
Andrew Cucciniello, was to be arraigned on a charge of criminal mischief as a hate crime, a felony with a maximum 7-year sentence.
A man dressed in dark-colored clothing was seen in a blurry, black-and-white surveillance video, running up to the menorah, jumping about 4 feet high and delivering a toppling kick.
Source: www.newsday.com
BY SUSANA ENRIQUEZ
Date: January 6, 2007
05-01-2007 / United States
The United States – Arrest of Two Youths for Antisemitic Activity in Colorado
On 5th January 2007, a 16-year-old and a 14-year old were arrested on suspicion of daubing graffiti and swastikas on a Jewish private school in Denver.
Date: 5th January 2007
03-01-2007 / Germany
Germany – The Speaker of Parliament Speaks out against Antisemitism
On 3rd January 2007, the Speaker of the German Parliament, Norbert Lamert, said in a press interview in Tel-Aviv that antisemitism must be fought in
Germany and in
Europe in general. "Certainly, there is antisemitism in
Germany", he said. "This is especially vexing for us. There is less antisemitism [in
Germany] than in other places, but this is no consolation for me. No other country in
Europe deals with antisemitism in such a forceful manner. For us, it is an insufferable matter. Antisemitism must not be acceptable anywhere in the world, especially in
Germany".
date:
03/01/07
02-01-2007 / Brazil
Brazil - Brazilian paper abolishes verb ‘to Jew’
A Brazilian newspaper pledged to abolish the use of an anti-Semitic verb in its pages.
Jornal do Brasil responded to Jewish readers who criticized a recent headline that used “Jew” as a verb in the sentence: “What to do when daylight-saving time ‘Jews’ body and soul.”
In Portuguese, the verb “to Jew,” or “judiar,” means to mistreat, to spoil, to mock.
Date: 2/1/2007
01-01-2007 / Egypt
Egypt– The Mufti of Egypt Denounces the New Edition of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
On 1st January 2007, over three years after the publication in Egypt of the new edition of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" called "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Their Biblical and Talmudic Sources" authored jointly by Dr. Ahmad Al-Hijazi al-Saqa (professor of Comparative Religion Research at the Al-Azhar University) and Hasham Khathar (a journalist working for the Qatari newspaper A-Sharq) and distributed among the Arab/Muslim communities in Britain and most probably in other countries outside Egypt, a clarification was published by Dr. 'Ali Jama'a, the Mufti of Egypt, in the widely read newspaper Al-Aharam. In this article the Mufti categorically denies that he had written the introduction to "This spurious, totally baseless book (the "Protocols"). Therefore, the Mufti notes, he sent a legal caveat to the publishers of the "Protocols" in which he demanded that the introduction be removed from the copies they have in stock and to refrain from publishing it without his permission.
Source: The MLM site
Date: 01/01/07
31-12-2006 / Latvia
Latvia – Antisemitic Deranged Person Arrested
A violent offender who escaped from a mental institution three years ago was arrested on 22 December. In the past he had shot a policeman and park ranger and defined himself as a ”committed fighter against Zionism.” When arrested he was found in possession of anti-Semitic literature.
Sorce:CFCA
Date:22/12/06
27-12-2006 / Czech
Czech–Song with Holocaust survivor's words causes controversy
The group, comprising members belonging to a generation of Czechs who have been learning and uncovering new details about the Holocaust since the fall of communism in the former Czechoslovakia in 1989, have produced a video-clip that has caused a stir in the Czech Republic. The song incorporates the voice of a distressed Holocaust survivor who is heard saying how she cannot understand how young people who still spray-paint walls with hateful slogans like "Gas the Jews!” The purpose of the song is to raise awareness in Czech society to the horrors of the past and its impact on Jews, Gypsies and others and to generate public discussion. In the words of one of the group members: "It seems so unreal that someone in Central Europe, who has gone through something like that, 50 years later still has to solve such questions instead of playing with grandkids,"
22-12-2006 / Latvia
Latvia – Antisemitic Deranged Person Arrested
A violent offender who escaped from a mental institution three years ago was arrested on 22 December. In the past he had shot a policeman and park ranger and defined himself as a ”committed fighter against Zionism.” When arrested he was found in possession of anti-Semitic literature.
Source:UCSJ
Date:31/12/06
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