Antisemitic events
05-09-2010 / Venezuela
Venezuela - Venezuela's Jews turn to Chavez over state media's antisemitism
The increasingly antisemitic commentary in Venezuela's state-sponsored media in recent days prompted the heads of the country's Jewish community to request an urgent meeting with President Hugo Chavez last week. The presidential palace responded that their request would be granted.
The verbal and written attacks have included hints that the Jews are damaging the country's economy and are...
04-09-2010 / Lithuania
Lithuania - Jewish community's sign vandalized in Panevezys
A sign on the Jewish Community's building in Panevezys, central Lithuania, has been tainted by vandals. Genadijus Kofmanas, the head of the Panevezys community, told BNS that the sign had been covered in black paint. View Larger Map // ...04-09-2010 / Iran
Iran - Iranian cleric: Holocaust is 'superstition'
Iran's Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem-Shirazi joined Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in denying the Holocaust, saying it was nothing more than a "superstition" meant to manipulate the West and the United States.
The ayatollah, speaking in the city of Qom, was quoted by the IRNA news agency.
Shirazi, who is considered one of the great Shiite rulers in Iran, said the Holocaust was...
03-09-2010 / Belgium
Belgium - EU official 'skeptical' about Washington talks, stresses influence of ‘Jewish lobby on Capitol Hill’
A senior European official expressed skepticism about the resumption of direct Israeli-Palestinian talks in Washington and stressed the influence of the Jewish lobby in the US.
Interviewed by Belgian Flemish public radio VRT, Karel De Gucht, European Commissioner for Trade, declared: "I see few reasons to think that there is this time more reasons for success."
Asked about the fact that...
01-09-2010 / Germany
Germany – Jewish cemetery desecrated
Unidentified people desecrated the Jewish cemetery in Ansbach, as they knocked down five tombstones and broke one of them. The Source: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/ View Larger Map // // // //]]> ...01-09-2010 / Sweden
Sweden - Rabbi verbally attacked
A Community rabbi was verbally abused on the street next to the Jewish Centre in Stockholm by three men with Arabic appearance. The men shouted to the rabbi: "We hate Jews... We hate Israelis..." When the rabbi took up his mobile phone and took a picture of one of them, they got very aggressive. The rabbi had to run back to the Jewish Center to take cover. The police was called to the...31-08-2010 / France
France - Teacher suspended for "too much Holocaust"
A Jewish French history teacher said that she had been suspended for spending too much time teaching her pupils about the Holocaust and for organising trips to former Nazi death camps.
A lawyer acting for Catherine Pederzoli, a 58-year-old secondary teacher in the eastern town of Nancy, said her client had been accused by administrators in Henri-Loritz de Nancy of teaching the World War II...
31-08-2010 / Czech
Czech Republic – Swastika was spray-painted in the front of a synagogue
A swastika painted on the ground in front of the Jerusalemska synagogue in Prague.
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29-08-2010 / Germany
Germany - Arson attack damages Jewish cemetery
An arson attack damaged the door of a building at the New Jewish Cemetery in the eastern German city of Dresden, before it was spotted by an alert woman cyclist, police said.
The fire smouldered against the front door of the funeral parlour where bodies await burial. Firefighters quickly put it out. The cemetery is located east of the city centre.
Police said they were looking for...
29-08-2010 / Germany
Germany - Central bank exec triggers fresh storm with views on the "Jewish gene"
German central bank executive Thilo Sarrazin has stirred fresh controversy over the weekend with discriminatory remarks concerning religious minorities.
"All Jews share a particular gene," Sarrazin said in an interview published on Sunday, August 29. "That makes them different from other peoples."
Sarrazin, who is currently promoting his book "Deutschland schafft sich ab" ("Germany...
26-08-2010 / France
France – Antisemitic assault in a supermarket in Toulouse
Two Muslim youngsters assaulted a young Jewish woman, after forcefully trying to compel a supermarket in Toulouse to respect the religious laws of the Ramadan. The two youngsters, who appear to be of a North African origin, scolded the woman for buying food during the Ramadan. When she told them she’s Jewish, they attacked her and yelled that she is a dirty Jew. The assault was made in the...26-08-2010 / Lebanon
Lebanon – “Jesus”, Antisemitic Series in Al-Manar T.V Channel
On the occasion of the month of Ramadan, Hizbullah’s Al-Manar Channel and the ABN Channel, representing the Amal Movement, broadcasted an Iranian T.V series, titled “Jesus”. The series contains anti-Christian and antisemitic expressions. The series was taken off the air in Lebanon following Christian protests.
The series “Jesus” (“Al-Said Al-Masih” in Arabic) has been...
26-08-2010 / Brazil
Brazil - Mezuza was stolen from a synagogue
The mezuzah of the main entrance of Monte Sinai Synagogue in São Paulo was stolen.
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25-08-2010 / Germany
Germany - Neo-Nazis at an all time high on the Internet
The number of websites with right-wing extremist content has reached a record high. In the course of the last year, 1,872 Neo-Nazi webpages were logged in Germany, over 800 more than five years previously. Right-wing extremism on the Internet is on the rise. The number of neo-Nazi networks has tripled within a year to 90, according to the German youth protection organization,...24-08-2010 / Lithuania
Lithuania – Pig’s head placed at the entrance to a synagogue
A pig’s head, covered with a black hat and side-locks attached to it, was placed at the entrance to a synagogue in the city of Kaunas.
Simonas Gurevicius, head of the Jewish Community in Lithuania said that the incident should be taken as an assault against believers of all faiths, and not only against Jews.
“We hope that the Lithuanian society will not remain indifferent, as the...
24-08-2010 / France
France - Synagogue receives death threats
A letter containing bullets, death threats to Jews and a swastika was sent to a synagogue in Drancy, a northern Paris suburb, where an infamous transit camp for Jews was set up during World War II. Source: http://www.france24.com/ Agrandir le plan // ...23-08-2010 / United States
USA - Antisemitic incident at ground zero mosque counter protest (Video)
At a 9-11 mosque counter-protest, several speakers called for support of the mosque as an expression of the constitutionally protected freedom of religion, and passionately urged an end to racism against Arab Americans and other ethnic groups that might practice Islam. But why the counter protestors didn’t throw the racist in their midst out, but instead tried to eject a citizen reporter...
23-08-2010 / Lebanon
Lebanon - Former Lebanese Minister Wiam Wahhab: I Like the Germans in the World Cup because they burned the Jews
Following are excerpts from an interview with former Lebanese minister Wiam Wahhab, which aired on Lebanon's Al-Jadid/New TV:
Wiam Wahhab: "Does the UN really believe that it can be used by the U.S. and Israel, and that it can use the international tribunal in order to destroy Lebanon, and that we won't lift a finger?! Do they really believe this? Do...
20-08-2010 / France
France – Antisemitic newspaper available on stands
The French extreme right wing party, ‘Le Parti National Radical’ (‘The Radical National Party’), headed by Maurice Martinet, has recently issued a survey under the title – “The Jews that Control France”. The survey was published within its periodic antisemitic themed pamphlet, which is available for the public on newspaper stands in the city of Lyon.
To view the survey,...
18-08-2010 / United States
USA - Vehicles vandalized with racist graffiti in local Jewish Community
Baltimore City Police are trying to track down the person responsible for spray-painting racist graffiti on vehicles on Swarthmore Avenue, Clarinth Road and Labyrinth Road in Northwest Baltimore.
At least six vehicles including two white vans were vandalized with multiple Swastikas, Hitler's name along with the phrase “IH8U”.
A local Jewish community organization is working closely...
