Struggle against antisemitism
01-09-2009 / Russia
Russia - Sentence for antisemitic graffiti
22-year-old Alexei Panov was convicted under Article 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement of hatred or hostility) and sentenced to two years of hard labor and 20% of its earnings will be retained by the state.
Panov, as well as another young man, charged that in the summer of 2005, twice,
painted antisemitic graffiti and swastikas on the fence and the gates
of the building of...01-09-2009 / United States
USA - Helsinki Commission chiefs: Denounce Swedish article
The leaders of the U.S. Helsinki Commission urged European foreign ministers to unequivocally denounce an antisemitic article in a Swedish newspaper
.
Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.), chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and co-chair Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) called on European leaders to condemn an
article in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet...
...31-08-2009 / Italy
Italy - Italy slams Swedish ‘antisemitic’ news report
Italy’s foreign minister Franco Frattini demands that EU condemn a Swedish newspaper story accusing
Israeli soldiers of smuggling dead Palestinians organs
.
In an interview with Israeli daily Haaretz, Franco Frattini pointed out that the report, published in Aftonbladet, is an "acts of blatant antisemitism”.
"There are limits to freedom of the press that stem from...29-08-2009 / United States
USA - Queens man suing antisemitic police for $4,000 wins judgment of $460,000
A Queens man has been awarded about $460,000 in federal civil court on his claim that Suffolk police officers brutalized him and violated his civil rights after he was arrested in 2006 on a misdemeanor charge. Weizmann produced documentation for $4,000 in medical expenses. Rafael Weizmann, a hairdresser from Forest Hills, was driving on Sept. 27, 2006, in Coram, where he had bought...24-08-2009 / Germany
Germany - Charges over pig's head at Jewish cemetery
German prosecutors said they have brought charges against a man accused of hanging a blood-drenched pig's head at a Jewish cemetery in November and a banner denying the Holocaust.
The accused is also believed to have poured pig's blood at the entrance of another Jewish graveyard the same night with another man who has also been charged, the state prosecutor's office in the eastern...22-08-2009 / Hungary
Hungary - Far-right event broken up
Police in Hungary have broken up a ceremony of the paramilitary Hungarian Guard organization (Magyar Gárda) at which new members were being inducted.
According to the original plans of the Hungarian guard, the oath-taking ceremony for new members should have taken place in Heroes Square in Budapest.
When the police refused permission, on the grounds that the Guard is a...
21-08-2009 / Israel
Israel - Foreign minister Lieberman: Sweden acting like in WWII
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday evening slammed the Swedish Foreign Ministry for saying that Swedish Ambassador to Israel Elisabet Borsiin Bonnier's condemnation of a newspaper
which accused the Israel Defense Forces of transplant organ theft does not represent the Swedish government's stance
.
"It's a shame that the Swedish Foreign Ministry fails to intervene...20-08-2009 / Ukraine
Ukraine - Mayor investigated over antisemitic comments
Sergey Ratushniak was told by prosecutors in Zakarpattia Oblast, of which Uzhhorod is the capital, to inform them of any possible trips outside the city while an investigation is conducted into charges of
abuse of power, hooliganism, and violating ethnic and racial equality laws
.
Ratushnyak is accused of using antisemitic language against parliament deputy Arseniy Yatsenyuk...20-08-2009 / Ukraine
Ukraine - Forbid entry to Ukrainian mayor, rabbi says
Rabbi Avraham Wolf, chief rabbi of Odessa and Southern Ukraine, appealed to the countries to forbid entry to
Uzhgorod
Mayor Sergey Ratushnyak, who allegedly
assaulted a young woman as she campaigned for a leading presidential candidate, and then made several xenophobic and antisemitic statements.
His open letter was addressed to Javier Solana, secretary general of the...19-08-2009 / Sweden
Sweden - Sweden 'shocked, appalled' by Aftonbladet article
Swedish Ambassador to Israel Elisabet Borsiin Bonnier issued a statement
denouncing the Stockholm newspaper's report
accusing Israel of trading in the stolen organs of Palestinians.
"The article in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet is as shocking and appalling to us Swedes, as it is to Israeli citizens. We share the dismay expressed by Israeli government representatives,...18-08-2009 / Israel
Israel – Danny Ayalon: Sweden must condemn the blood defamation in the newspaper
"I call the Swedish government to severely condemn the unfounded antisemitic article", has said the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Danny Ayalon,
in reaction to the publication in the Swedish newspaper, "Aftonbladet"
, according to which Israel trades organs of Palestinians who have been killed.
Israel has presented a protestation before the Sweden government and according to...18-08-2009 / United States
USA - Man admits targeting orthodox Jews in robberies
A 20-year-old Lakewood, NJ man has admitted violently robbing two men he said were targeted for the crimes because they are Orthodox Jews. Devon Hardy pleaded guilty to two counts of armed robbery and two counts of bias intimidation related to crimes in Lakewood on May 25 and July 8 of last year. In entering his guilty plea before Superior Court Judge James Den...16-08-2009 / Canada
Canada - How Israel became South Africa
By
Margaret Wente
Which evil regime finds itself in the crosshairs of Canada's largest church? Israel, of course
It's a bad old world out there. Tens of thousands are being raped in war-torn eastern Congo. In Sudan, a woman faces 40 lashes for daring to wear pants. The Iranians have brutally suppressed a peaceful uprising and shot protesters in the streets. The tyrants who...15-08-2009 / Hungary
Hungary - Neo-Nazis banned from marching in Budapest
Hungarian police rejected a series of applications by neo-Nazis for permission to march this weekend in commemoration of the death of Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess.
Replies had been sent stating that the Budapest police headquarters "prohibits the holding of the event" to nine applicants who had requested clearance to march through the capital, said a statement.
According to...15-08-2009 / Germany
Germany - Holocaust-denier's jail term upheld
Horst Mahler, a former member of Germany's national Democratic Party is to serve six years in prison for denying the Holocaust.
A federal court in Germany has rejected an appeal by the former member of Germany's national Democratic Party, saying he must serve his sentence for denying the Holocaust.
The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe recently reaffirmed the six year...13-08-2009 / Ukraine
Ukraine - Prosecutors charge Uzhgorod mayor with inciting ethnic hatred after antisemitic diatribe
Prosecutors charged the mayor of
Uzhgorod, Ukraine with inciting ethnic hatred after a Jewish group complained about an interview he gave in which he used viciously antisemitic rhetoric. Mayor Sergey Ratushnyak made several antisemitic statements in an August 7, 2009 interview with "Ukrainskaya Pravda" including calling a presidential candidate with an ethnically Jewish background "an...13-08-2009 / Australia
Australia - Holocaust denier Fredrick Toben to serve time in jail
Holocaust denier Fredrick Toben has been taken into custody to serve a three-month jail term over publishing offensive material on the internet.
The 64-year-old was taken from the Federal Court in Adelaide by Australian Federal Police today after losing his appeal against his conviction for contempt of court.
The Full Court of the Federal Court also ruled that his jail term,...10-08-2009 / United States
USA - Suspect arrested in vandalism of Norfolk synagogues
A
Waynesboro
resident has been arrested and charged in
April's vandalism of several Norfolk synagogues
. John Edward Grogan, 29, was charged with two counts of Injuries to Church with the intent to instill fear or intimidation because of religion and/or ethnic origin and two charges of conspiring to commit a felony.
Grogan is affiliated with a white supremacist...09-08-2009 / Vatican
The Vatican - Pope: concentration camps a symbol of evil
Pope Benedict XVI says that Nazi concentration camps were "extreme symbols of evil" and hell on earth.
The pontiff says concentration camps are a symbol of the "hell that comes to earth when man forgets God and replaces him, usurping his right to decide what is right and what is wrong, to give life and death."
He was speaking to pilgrims gathered at the Castel Gandolfo papal...05-08-2009 / Germany
