Struggle against antisemitism
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...01-02-2008 / Germany
Germany - Germany Launches Comic Book on Holocaust
German schools will launch a comic book next week that aims to teach above all underprivileged children about the Nazi era and the Holocaust.
Although German schools already make a big effort to give pupils a thorough education about the Nazi era, racist violence remains a problem, and the revival of Germany's Jewish community has brought a rise in anti-Semitism with...01-02-2008 / Brazil
Brazil - Judge bans Holocaust Carnival float
A brazilian judge barred a samba group today from featuring a Holocaust display and a dancer dressed as Adolf Hitler in its Carnival parade after fierce complaints from Jewish groups. State judge Juliana Kalichszteim ruled the Viradouro samba group, or school, would be subject to a $US110,000 fine for the float and $US28,000 for the Hitler impersonation if it went ahead with its...30-01-2008 / Poland
Poland - Prosecutor to start investigation into priest controversial remarks
A Polish prosecutor will start an investigation into the controversial statements made last year by Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, the founder of Radio Maryja, a Catholic radio station known for its anti-Semitic broadcasts, press reports said.
The decision to start an investigation, decided by a court in Torun, is a response to a complaint by a Polish Jewish organization against the...29-01-2008 / United States
USA - MTV videos take look at Holocaust
It’s a typical rush hour and commuters are crammed into a subway car, when the train slams to a halt.
Suddenly, soldiers with dogs and machine guns order everyone off the train and into two huge lines on the platform.
“That could be the Green Line, and those people could be...29-01-2008 / United States
USA - Israel, UN release stamp to remember the Holocaust
For the first time, the United Nations and Israel have jointly issued an International Holocaust Remembrance Day stamp.
The day itself was marked on Monday following a UN decision in 2005 to launch an annual memorial. The stamp, designed by internationally known graphic artist Matias Delfino.
The stamp was a joint project of the Israel Postal Company's Philatelic Service...29-01-2008 / Ukraine
