Struggle against antisemitism
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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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.
At...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
