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10-12-2006 / Britain
Britain - Livingstone apologizes to UK Jews
Mayor Ken Livingstone has issued an apology for "causing offense" following clashes with the Jewish community in recent years. He spoke to Jewish leaders at the launch of the London Jewish Forumwhich was originally established to reach out and promote dialogue with London's civic institutions and politicians. Livingstone said, "Finally, if I've caused any offense to anyone in the past, I apologize, it was never my intention. It was never a calculated intention to cause offence. The mayor repeated the apology and requested, "If I do it again, please pick up the phone and tell me rather than go to the Standards Board and cost thousands of pounds, as we are and we should be friends and we should be able to work together. So if we have a problem lets deal with it over the phone."
Relations between the mayor and Jews deteriorated after several incidents, including Livingstone's justification of Palestinian suicide bombings. Last year he likened Oliver Finegold, a Jewish journalist at the Evening Standard, to a Nazi concentration camp guard. In March, following disagreement over a building project, he suggested that two Indian-born Jewish property developers, David and Simon Reuben, should "go back to Iran and see if they can do better under the ayatollahs," claiming later he did not know they were Jews.
Source: The Jerusalem Post.
Photo: Cross Photographic
10-12-2006 / United States
USA - Congress condemns Iran conference
Both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives passed unanimously resolutions condemning the conference to be held on Monday and Tuesday in Tehran. Both resolutions cited Iran’s Holocaust denial in the context of the international community’s efforts to roll back what is believed to be Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
Source: jta.org
09-12-2006 / Germany
Germany Condemns Iranian Plan to Host Holocaust Conference
Germany condemned a planned
Iranian conference on the Holocaust and summoned Iran's charge d'affaires to the Foreign Ministry, saying that attempts to question the Nazis' murder of Jews were "shocking and unacceptable."
Source: FOX News Network
08-12-2006 / Poland
Poland– Chairman of Polish National Party sued for antisemitic remarks
National Party chief, Leszek Bubel, has been sued by ten non-Jewish Polish intellectuals for what they define as his being a Polish antisemite. The plaintiffs claim that antisemitism is offending Polishness in general and stated that Bubel is a publisher of extremely antisemitic papers and leaflets, which are available in every press stand in Poland. He is famous for his widely spread pamphlet Poznaj Zyda (Meet a Jew) where he lists secret Jews in Polish government, media and banks. Almost none of these people, if any, are Jewish.
Date: 08/12/06
07-12-2006 / Australia
Australia - Holocaust denier to face charges
THE Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) is launching legal action against the Adelaide Institute’s Dr Frederick Toben for his failure to obey a court order to remove antisemitic material from his website.
In a landmark ruling in 2002, a Federal Court of Australia judge ordered Dr Toben to remove anti-Jewish material from his website.
The judge ordered the removal of the material, claiming it was likely to “offend, insult, humiliate and intimidate” Australian Jews, and banned him from republishing any similar material anywhere on the internet or by any other means.
The judgement stated that should Dr Toben continue to publish the material, he would be found guilty of contempt of court, an offence that could result in a jail sentence.
Dr Toben is currently in the Iranian capital at a conference on “Review of the Holocaust: global vision”, which is being presented by Iran’s Institute for Political and International Studies. According to the conference’s website, the event is marketed to those interested in clarifying the “hidden and open corners” of the Holocaust.
Dr Toben, who served seven months in a German prison in 1999 for inciting racism, has been quoted in the Iranian Tehran Times, which supports the anti-Israel regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that Hitler’s extermination of six-million Jews and the existence of gas chambers had not been proven.
source: www.ajn.com
07-12-2006 / United States
UN -Secretary-General deplores any conference that would question reality of Holocaust
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan came out strongly against any effort to question or deny the Holocaust against the background of
the conference to be held in Iran next week. Annan’s spokesman said that ”The Secretary-General personally believes that any attempt to cast doubt on the reality of this unique and undeniable horror must be firmly resisted by all people of goodwill and of whatever faith. He would deeply deplore any conference whose purpose is to question or deny the reality of the Holocaust. Only a year ago the General Assembly passed a resolution which ‘rejects any denial of the Holocaust as an historical event, either in full or part.
Source:
www.un.org
06-12-2006 / United States
The United States – The Arrest of a Muslim Convert who Planned an Attack in Illinois
On 6th December 2006, Derrick Shareef was arrested and charged with intent to destroy a building by setting it on fire or blowing it up and with attempt to purchase weapons of mass destruction. Shareef is a 22-year-old American who converted from Christianity to Islam. According to tapes of his conversations with a "friend", he planned to blow up a court or some other government facility. When he decided that he wanted to carry out the attack during the Christmas he decided that the most effective place would be in a mall and chose the Cherry Vale Mall in Rockford, Illinois, about 130 kms northeast of Chicago as his target. The tapes of these conversations also revealed that he intended stabbing Jews. He said that in the past he would have been satisfied with harming a number of Jews, but since the war in Lebanon he was looking for a synagogue to attack.
05-12-2006 / Russia
Russia - Court sentences radical gang leader to 3.5 years in penal colony
A St. Petersburg court sentenced a leader of an extremist gang, Mad Crowd, to three and a half years in a penal colony. The Court in St. Petersburg found Ruslan Melnik guilty of forming a criminal group with the intent of committing race hate crimes and of being the group's leader. Six members of the gang were tried earlier, but the case of Melnik, who was arrested in July and had been on an international wanted list along with another leader, Dmitry Borovikov, was considered separately. The group was accused by the prosecution of attacks and killings on and of foreigners, primarily from the Caucasus, Asia and Africa, as well as Jews.
Source: en.rian.ru
01-12-2006 / Russia
Russia - Russian Youths Sentenced for Killing Jewish Man
Two youths were sentenced to ten years and nine and a half years in prison for murdering a Jewish man. The court found 14 year old Oleg Goncharov and 15 year old Vitaly Parygin guilty of murder motivated by ethnic hatred. The defendants hunted non-Russian homeless people throughout September and October of last year, luring them from their makeshift habitations by pretending to be police officers demanding their identification. Once they determined that their victim was not an ethnic Russian, they would force him to an isolated location, where they would beat him to death with stones, bats, and pieces of concrete.
Copyright 2006 by UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union.
01-12-2006 / Poland
Poland - Polish MEP fires assistant over Nazi salute
Maciej Giertych, a member of the League of Polish Families and father of Education Minister Roman Giertych, fired his assistant Leokadia Wiacek for "disciplinary reasons with immediate effect," his office said in a statement.
The daily newspaper Dziennik published pictures from an amateur video showing a party of young people shouting "Sieg Heil," raising their arms in the Nazi salute and burning torches in the shape of swastikas.
©The Associated Press
30-11-2006 / Russia
Russia - Supreme Court upholds verdict vs. synagogue attacker Koptsev
Russia's Supreme Court upheld Thursday a guilty verdict against Alexander Koptsev, sentenced in September to 16 years in prison for
stabbing nine people in a Moscow synagogue
in January 2006, and for fueling religious hatred.
2005 RIA Novosti
29-11-2006 / United States
USA - Valley of Wolves' pulled from US theaters
opular but controversial movie,
“Valley of the Wolves-Iraq,” has been withdrawn from screening in the
United States.
The film, a blockbuster hit in
Turkey depicting
U.S. atrocities in
Iraq has drawn some 4 million people in
Turkey to movie theaters since it hit the screens in February, breaking the country's record. The movie, which is also being shown abroad, has come under fire in
Germany, where politicians and Jewish community leaders have condemned it as anti-U.S. and anti-Semitic and urged local cinemas to not show it.
28-11-2006 / Poland
Poland - Poles sue publisher of anti-Semitic texts
Ten well-known Polish intellectuals filed a lawsuit against Leszek Bubel, a major publisher of anti-Semitic tracts.
Signatories to the suit include former Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski and filmmaker Kazimierz Kuz, according to a recent report in the daily Gazeta Wyborcza.
All of those who signed the complaint are non-Jews.
Bubel has been prosecuted several times for promoting hatred of a racial group, but courts have acquitted him.
The lawsuit, the first of its kind in Poland, contends that Bubel’s anti-Jewish campaigns “violate the public good” and are an act against all Polish citizens.
21-11-2006 /
Germany - Far-right German band goes on trial on race hate charges
Four members of the far-right German band Race War went on trial accused of forming a criminal organization that promoted racial hatred and glorified the Nazi era.
The band also stands accused of using banned Nazi symbols. In 2003, prosecutors said, a "special edition" of its now-banned debut CD was issued on Adolf Hitler's birthday, with the Nazi dictator's picture and a swastika on the cover.
20-11-2006 / Britain
Britain - A man arrested over Swastika graffiti at war memorial
Police hunting racist vandals who defaced a war memorial with Nazi swastikas and SS symbols have arrested a 21-year-old man. Vandals targeted the 14ft stone cross in Worthing, West Sussex, on the eve of Remembrance and daubed a nearby home and shop with anti-Semitic graffiti.
20-11-2006 / United States
The United States – The Arrest of a Member of the Ku Klux Klan in Ohio
On 20th November 2006, a member of the radical right-wing racist Ku Klux Klan was arrested in Cincinnati, Ohio after he had caused a disturbance at a rally of the Jewish Federation in main square in the city. The man walked ahead of the crowd in Nazi goose-step with the Israeli flag tied around his foot.
15-11-2006 / Ukraine
Ukraine - Ukrainian President Promises to Fight Xenophobic Crimes
Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko told reporters that his government would fight xenophobia in the Slavic country. He specifically cited recent anti-Semitic crimes in
Ukraine, saying that they would be investigated.
15-11-2006 /
Germany – Holocaust Denier Convicted
On 15th November 2006, several years after he had been convicted of inciting to racism and fled the country, Germer Rudolf, a 42-year-old German national, was convicted of denying the Holocaust and of disseminating his ideas over the Internet. He is facing a possible five-year sentence. Rudolf (pictured), a chemist by profession, said in a court in
Mannheim in western
Germany that "No court has the authority to rule on complex historical affairs". Also being tried in this court is Ernst Zundel, an infamous Holocaust denier who was extradited from
Canada.
The General Prosecutor, Ernst Grossmann, said in court that Rudolf had published over the Internet that "The Nazi Party never issued orders to kill Jews", and that "the victims in the camps died of starvation and typhus". In 2005, Rudolf also published a book making similar claims, and according to the Prosecutor the State has confiscated 100 thousand euros that Rudolf earned in the years 2001-2004 from selling illegal material.
In the 1990s, Rudolf fled
Germany after he had been found guilty of inciting to racism and sentenced to 14 months in prison. After spending time in
Spain and
Britain he arrived in the
United States from where he was extradited to German about a year ago in order to serve his original sentence. The sentencing in his second trial is expected to be handed down in January 2007.
12-11-2006 / United States
United States – Fighting antisemitism with hip-hop
Rapper-turned-record executive Jay-Z and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons will be starring in public service announcements throughout the United States, Europe and South America aimed at reducing antisemitism. The announcements in the US are mostly aimed at raising awareness, while those in Europe are intended to fight the rising antisemitism of the past few years. The ad campaign's efficacy would be tremendously enhanced by the star power of the two African-Americans - Simmons and Jay- Z. They will ask viewers, "What's hot? Respect for people. What's not hot?" Hating people for their color or religion." And they will explain that antisemitism is a long word for racism. Using the new Voxonic technology, they will be heard speaking in French, German, Russian and Spanish depending on the country. The New York-based Foundation for Ethnic Understanding initiated the ad campaign. For a start, Warner has donated $10 million dollars in airtime.
Source:www.jpost.com
11-11-2006 / Netherlands
Holland – Man arrested for exclamation of contempt in Amsterdam
A man was arrested and fined for uttering an exclamation of contempt after calling out to a Jewish group “Jews are cancer”.
Date: 11/11/06
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