Struggle
21-07-2008 / United States
USA - Man convicted of hate crime for accosting Wiesel
A jury in San Francisco has convicted a 24-year-old man of
accosting Holocaust survivor and scholar Elie Wiesel in a hotel elevator.
Jurors convicted Eric Hunt on Monday of false imprisonment with a hate crime allegation. Hunt also was convicted of battery and elder abuse.
The 79-year-old Wiesel testified he thought Hunt was trying to kidnap him when he was forcefully pulled off an elevator on Feb. 1, 2007.
Wiesel read comments allegedly written by Hunt calling the writer's accounts of the Holocaust "fictitious."
The jury dismissed charges of attempted kidnapping and stalking.
Hunt had pleaded not guilty to all the charges by reason of insanity. His lawyers say he faces up to three years in prison.
Source: Associated Press
21-07-2008 / Britain
Britain - Brown tells Knesset will fight academic boycott of Israel
Gordon Brown became the first British prime minister to address the Knesset, and opened his statements in Hebrew to extend his best wishes to the country as it marks its 60th anniversary: "Mazal tov Israel, shalom aliechem," he said.
Brown, pledged the UK and its European partners are prepared to tighten the sanctions imposed on Tehran should it choose to ignore calls to suspend its pursuit of nuclear arms.
"To those who question Israel's very right to exist, and threaten the lives of your citizens through terror, we say: the people of Israel have a right to live here, to live freely and to live in security," said Brown.
"And to those who believe that threatening statements fall upon indifferent ears, we say in one voice: it is totally abhorrent for the president of Iran to call for Israel to be wiped from the map of the world.”
He pledged the British government would fight against any attempt to boycott Israeli academia.
Source: www.ynetnews.com
17-07-2008 / Russia
Russia - Editor of antisemitic newspaper charged with incitement
Prosecutors in
Rostov-na-Donu
, have filed charges of illegal incitement of ethnic and religious hatred against the editor of a local newspaper.
The editor of Priazovsky Kray faces up to five years in prison if convicted of violating Article 282 of the criminal code for authoring an article in the May 22, 2008 edition of the paper that demonized Chasidic Jews.
Source: http://www.fsumonitor.com/
16-07-2008 / Britain
Britain - British lawmaker: Europe imports antisemitism
Europe is an importer of antisemitism, a British government official said.
Jim Murphy, the British minister for Europe, says it does so by allowing the Islamic media to broadcast antisemitic content to the continent's citizens.
Speaking at the launch of the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary antisemitism, Murphy added, "The most emblematic claim of this antisemitic source is that no Jews died on 9/11."
Murphy pointed out, however, that the British government recently enacted a law prohibiting the use of threatening words or behavior with the intention of stirring up hatred against groups because of their religious belief, a law that could make such anti-Semitic allegations punishable.
Source:
www.jta.org
15-07-2008 / Russia
Russia - Police detain suspects in Orenburg synagogue vandalism
The suspects reportedly have neo-Nazi tattoos and have confessed to the crime. A search of one suspect's apartment reportedly yielded extremist leaflets.
Source:
www.fsumonitor.com
14-07-2008 / United States
USA - Man arrested for attacking a rabbi
Pichardo Dearmas, 49, a convicted burglar from
Miami Beach
has been charged under a hate crime law after police say he slapped at a rabbi and blurted: “You Fucking Jew.”
Rabbi Abraham S. Mann, 36, formerly of the Hallandale Jewish Center, wearing a black brimmed hat and black knee, length overcoat, was walking on the Venetian Causeway.
Miami Beach police stopped Dearmas on Dilido Island, where he admitted”he didn’t know why he did it,” according to police.
Source:
www.miamiherald.com13-07-2008 / Britain
Britain - Holocaust denier convicted of trying to incite race hate online
Simon Sheppard claims accounts of the Holocaust are "exaggerated" and describes Anne Frank's diary as "evil" has been convicted of putting articles on the internet that could stir up race hate.
A jury at Leeds Crown Court found Simon Sheppard, 51, guilty of nine counts of publishing racially inflammatory written material on his website between March 2005 and April 2006.
Source:
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
11-07-2008 / Russia
Russia – Newspaper editor charged with extremism
Prosecutors in
Chita
, charged the editor of a local newspaper with extremism. The newspaper “Russkoe Zabaykale” is the official organ of the local branch of the Union of the Russian People, named for a group that led pogroms against Jews in the late Tsarist period. Its editor, Aleksandr Yaremenko, previously received a warning from the prosecutor’s office but continued to publish antisemitic articles. A local court approved the charges of extremism and ordered that the newspaper’s property be confiscated.
Source:
www.fsumonitor.com
10-07-2008 / United States
USA - ADL fight the next generation of online extremism
Anti-Semitism 2.0, a new explosion of online hate, is extremely dangerous to Jews and to Israel, with antisemitic and anti-Israel propagandists attracting tens of thousands of viewers.
For example, on the extremely popular Facebook social networking site there is a group called "Israel is not a country!!!! Delist it from Facebook as a country!" This group has more than 40,000 members and includes more than 100,000 comments posted by readers. Much of the content posted (and other online forums like it) is strongly anti-Israel and antisemitic.
Help fight the threat of anti-Semitism 2.0. Sign our pledge condemning antisemitic individuals and groups on social networks and other sites, and make a commitment to stand up for the rights of Israel and Jews.
08-07-2008 / Russia
Russia - Russia bans book on Hitler saying Nazi quotes insult
A Russian court has banned a book about Adolf Hitler by the late historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, saying quotes attributed to the Nazi leader insult Russians and Jews.
Under anti-extremism laws the court banned the 1953 book "Hitler's Table Talk: 1941-1944", which records Hitler's sometimes racist ramblings on a wide range of topics.
Russia's Prosecutor-General said in a statement that texts published in "Hitler's Table Talk" are of "an anti-Slavic and anti-Semitic character".
"A host of statements by A. Hitler in the book insult the dignity of Russian and Jewish peoples who are presented in quotes as inferior and primitive people because of their nationality."
The book will now be put on a national list of extremist works that are banned and owning or distributing it would then be illegal.
Source:
www.reuters.com
08-07-2008 / France
France - Five held in Paris beating
Police have detained five youths suspected of being involved in the alleged anti-Semitic beating of a Paris teenager.
Immediately following the attack, five other young blacks were held by police and later released as witnesses.
Source:
www.jta.org
06-07-2008 / Hungary
Hungary – Antisemitic website ceases to operate
The most famous openly antismitic and extremist Hungarian internet page called www.kuruc.info has disappeared from the internet. The Hungarian authorities had been trying to remove it for some time, but could not, because the server was located in the USA. Since Friday the page is inaccessible and there is only a sentence in Hungarian claiming that the site will be functioning again soon.
04-07-2008 / United States
USA - Chicago man convicted of hate crime, assault for threatening Jewish teens
A Chicago man was found guilty in Cook County Circuit Court of a hate crime and assault after he threatened three Jewish teenagers with a gun and called them anti-Semitic slurs during a confrontation in Lincolnwood last year.
John Fiorentino, 20, from Chicago, was convicted of a hate crime and assault after a two-day jury trial.
Fiorentino pointed a gun at the teenagers and yelled anti-Semitic slurs after a March 2007 traffic altercation in Lincolnwood. No one was hurt.
Source: www.chicagotribune.com
04-07-2008 / United States
USA - Graffiti investigated as a hate crime
Two drawings of the Star of David, drawn with mustard and what appeared to be glue was found on a driveway in a Forest Hill neighborhood in
Harford County, Maryland
.
Source:
www.baltimoresun.com
04-07-2008 / Britain
Britain- Union blocks boycott move
The “Boycott Israel” campaign has been dealt a significant blow after the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers’ (RMT) annual meeting overturned its pro-boycott policy.
More than 40 conference delegates voted for the motion, with seven against and nine abstentions. The delegates voted in favour of a tough-talking but balanced resolution that not only condemned violence and racism on both sides, but also insisted that: “The Hamas Charter is a virulently antisemitic document that exhorts the killing of Jews and subordinates all social and human rights to Islam.”
The motion also praised Israeli and Palestinian unions whose workers, it said, were usually the victims of violence by both sides, and pledged continued support for both sides.
Source: Jewish Chronicle
04-07-2008 / Britain
Britain– Lecturer resigns from UCU following boycott resolution
Keele University lecturer Eve Garrard has resigned from the University and College Union following its pro-boycott resolution in May. In a letter to the UCU general secretary Ms Garrard questioned why the union should continue to “punish Israel”.
She wrote: “I, like many others, can no longer bear the shame and embarrassment of belonging to an institution which is willing to discriminate against Jews, and whose readiness to do so is supported by leading members of its executive committee. “Some of these members were elected on an explicitly anti-boycott platform, but nonetheless went on to support this latest attempt to boycott Israel... This union is no longer a fit place for those who think Jews have the same rights of self-determination, self-defence and national identity as other peoples do and I hereby resign from it.”
Source: Jewish Chronicle
01-07-2008 / Russia
Russia - Court gives slap on the wrists to extremists who incited violence against Jews
Three antisemitic extremists who called for violence against Jews and other minorities were given suspended sentences in
Blagoveshchensk
, Russia.
The three members of the local branch of the Union of the Russian People were convicted of inciting ethnic hatred and forming an extremist organization. The prosecution collected video clips, the group's literature, and eye witness testimony to demonstrate that the defendants regularly incited hatred against Jews and planned to arm themselves to "take action" against them.
Source:
www.fsumonitor.com
28-06-2008 / United States
USA - NYPD arrests 4 black teens for stoning bus full of Jewish toddlers
Police say four teenagers have been arrested on hate crime charges for throwing rocks at a school bus full of Jewish toddlers.
Police say the three girls and one boy yelled epithets last month as they broke windows on the bus in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights. The children were not hurt.
The case is part of a string of incidents that have stirred tensions between black and Jewish residents in Crown Heights. The teens are all 14 and are black.
Source:
http://www.nrg.co.il/
27-06-2008 / Ukraine
Ukraine - antisemitic vandal sentenced in Berdichev
A vandal, who painted swastikas and neo-Nazi slogans on a small mausoleum over the grave of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, in Berdichev, was sentenced to one and a half years in prison. The 20-year-old defendant was charged under Article 297 of the Criminal Code (desecrating graves), but not a hate crime.
Source:
http://www.fsumonitor.com/
27-06-2008 / United States
USA - Teen arrested in swastika incident
A teenager has been arrested in connection with the painting of swastikas on a Jewish family's home. A second teenager is under investigation for participating in the crime.
Source: www.centennialcitizen.com
