Struggle against antisemitism
09-09-2010 / Britain
Britain - Chelsea fans question club's stance over antisemitism
Chelsea's willingness to tackle antisemitism has been called into question by a group of fans who were left dissatisfied by the club's handling of two separate incidents.
The group has been moved to complain about instances of a "significant minority" of Chelsea fans chanting "Yiddo, Yiddo," at the Israel international Yossi Benayoun during the game at Wigan. Chelsea responded by saying...08-09-2010 / Cuba
Cuba - Fidel Castro tells Ahmadinejad: Stop bashing the Jews (Video)
Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro has urged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stop slandering the Jews, according to an article published on the U.S. website The Atlantic.
The ageing revolutionary devoted much of a five-hour conversation to the issue of anti-Semitism, wrote Jeffrey Goldberg, who interviewed Castro in the Cuban capital Havana.
Castro told The Atlantic that the...04-09-2010 / United States
USA - Teenagers read Rosh Hashanah essays for ransacking Jewish bungalows
Four teens apologized and read essays on the meaning of the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah before they were sentenced in Sullivan County Court for ransacking a Jewish bungalow colony in April and spray painting gang graffiti, a swastika and spelling out “Hitler.”
Daniel Anderson, 19; Travis Beaupierre, 16; Malik Keith, 18; and Daemion Cameron, 19; previously pleaded guilty to burglary...03-09-2010 / Germany
Germany – The racist senior official on his way out of the Central Bank
The German Central Bank announced yesterday (Thursday) that it had asked the President, Kristoph Wolf, to fire Thilo Sarrazin from his job as a member of the Bank’s Board,
as a result of anti-Jewish and anti-Moslem statements that have caused a storm worldwide.
In an announcement on behalf of the “Bundesbank” it was stated that the members of the Board had decided unanimously to...31-08-2010 / Germany
Germany - Probation sentence to Neo-Nazi who attacks grandson of Munich massacre victim
The grandson of a victim of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre was attacked by a neo-Nazi in Germany. The 20-year-old assailant, Alexander Paloch, was convicted by the Naumburg District Court of assaulting a 17-year-old Israeli who lives with his family in a small town in Germany.
But despite the court's accepting the prosecution's arguments, the man was only sentence to eight months...30-08-2010 / Britain
Britain - Mobile police station in Hale to deter antisemitism
A Mobile police station will be operating in Hale and Bowdon throughout the Jewish festivals this month to help deter antisemitism. Trafford has a high Jewish population and Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and members of the Jewish Community Security Trust (CST) will be taking part in joint foot patrols as part of a drive to prevent antisemitism and crime throughout the High Holy...25-08-2010 / Lithuania
Lithuania - Prime Minister condemns synagogue pig's head attack
Lithuania's Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius condemned an apparent neo-Nazi attack in which a pig's head was left at the entrance of a synagogue.
"Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius welcomes the police investigation of the anti-Semitic provocation in Kaunas and hopes it will be successful, with the perpetrators found and punished," a government statement said.
The pig's head was found...19-08-2010 / Netherlands
Holland - Dutch Arab group fined over Holocaust-denying cartoon
A Dutch appeals court fined an Arab organization in the Netherlands 2,500 Euros for causing "unnecessary offence" in publishing a Holocaust-denying cartoon.
"The Holocaust is a black page in the history of humanity," the appeals court in Arnhem in the eastern Netherlands said in a statement.
In April, a court acquitted the AEL of insulting Jews by publishing the cartoon, which depicts...17-08-2010 / United States
USA - Letter from US senator Brownback on antisemitism in Norway
US senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) recently sent a letter to the Norwegian ambassador in Washington DC expressing his concerns over how “hatred of Israel and outright antisemitism is being allowed to fester unchallenged in Norway.” The letter, which was sent out on Aug 3rd, was based on a 10-point list created by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. What is striking is that the points on the...16-08-2010 / United States
USA - American Muslim leaders visit concentration camps to learn about Holocaust, pay respects to victims
A group of eight American Muslim leaders have visited the Dachau and Auschwitz concentration camps to learn more about the Holocaust and to pay respects to its victims.
The excursion, which ran from August 8 through August 10, was organized by Marshall Breger, an Orthodox Jew who served as a senior White House official under Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. The trip was co-sponsored...05-08-2010 / United States
USA - Man responsible for antisemitic graffiti at synagogue arrested
Ian Jacob Baron, age 23, formerly of Olney, was arrested after a series of hate-based vandalism that occurred in Olney, Maryland.
Police say Baron spray-painted antisemitic graffiti on the exterior walls, retaining walls, light posts, and parking lot of the B’Nai Shalom Synagogue.
Baron also scattered loose change near the entrance of the synagogue as a possible antisemitic act....02-08-2010 / United States
USA - ZOA wants changes to U. of California antisemitism panel
The Zionist Organization of America wants the University of California to replace two members of the advisory council addressing antisemitism on UC campuses.
The ZOA’s July 26 letter to university President Mark Yudof called on the advisory council to replace UC San Diego Professor Jorge Mariscal and Imam Jihad Turk, who the group says has been hostile toward Jews. ZOA says the council...27-07-2010 / United States
USA - ADL Audit: 1,211 Antisemitic incidents across the Country in 2009
The number of antisemitic incidents in the United States remained at a "sustained and troubling" level in 2009, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which compiles annually a statistical audit of antisemitic assaults, vandalism and harassment.
The 2009 ADL Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, released today, counted a total of 1,211 incidents of vandalism, harassment...21-07-2010 / Israel
Israel - Israel signs agreement to fight antisemitism with 87 countries
More than 80 countries signed an agreement to cooperate in the fight against antisemitism and Holocaust denial.
The Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights signed the agreement at Israel's Foreign Affairs Ministry .
"This agreement is a step that doubles the power of 87 states'...20-07-2010 / United States
USA - NY synagogues get increased anti-terrorism funds
New York City nonprofit and religious groups including more than 25 synagogues will receive nearly $6 million in anti-terrorism grants, up 40 percent from last year, a US congressman said on Monday. Citing a foiled plot targeting Bronx synagogues in 2009, Representative Anthony Weiner, a Democrat, told Reuters that cultural, nonprofit and religious institutions need extra resources for...19-07-2010 / United States
USA - U.S. lawmakers seek action against campus antisemitism
U.S. Congress members of Congress signed a letter expressing concern about how the federal Department of Education is responding to antisemitism on college campuses.
The Zionist Organization of America lobbied for the letter, which was signed by 36 lawmakers and sent last week to Department of Education secretary Arne Duncan. The letter raised questions about the department’s Office for...12-07-2010 / Poland
Poland – An artist has set fire to a barn which was a representation of a memorial to massacred Jews
An artist, who called on Poles to post their antisemitic thoughts on his internet site, printed them and burned them in a barn that was a memorial to those slaughtered in the Jedwabne pogrom in July 1941.The representation was intended for the former horror village and not to lead to the death of the artist, who emerged from the barn unscathed.
A controversial gesture: Last...27-06-2010 / Russia
Russia - Suspended sentence for antisemitic vandal
Court in Izhevsk, gave a one year suspended sentence to a man who painted swastikas and antisemitic threats on the walls of the local Jewish community center. Andrey Mokrushin and an unidentified youth, both of whom are members of the neo-Nazi group Russian National Unity, committed the crime on March .
Source: http://www.ucsj.org/
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Britain - Neo-Nazis jailed over anti-Jewish internet posts
Michael Heaton, 42, of Leigh, Greater Manchester, and Trevor Hannington, 58, from Hirwaun, described Jews as "scum" and encouraged people to kill them.
The self-proclaimed neo-Nazis were both cleared of soliciting murder. Heaton was convicted of stirring up racial hatred - a charge Hannington admitted.
Heaton was jailed for 30 months and Hannington for two years.
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23-06-2010 / Chile
Chile – Neo-Nazi who threatened Lily Perez given a prison sentence
The Criminal Court in Vina del Mar ruled against Elliot Quijada, who had threatened to kill the RN Senator, Lily Perez, and convicted him of incitement to hatred against the Jewish People and of illegal possession of weapons.
This person, who had in the past founded the Neo-Nazi group “Martillo del Sur” [Hammer of the South] was charged with payment of a fine amounting to UTM 50 (one...
