Antisemitic events
28-02-2010 / Britain
Britain - Teen to website users: Pledge you aren't Jewish
A teenager who set up a racist website, which asked people to pledge they had never followed Judaism, is believed to be the youngest person prosecuted for inciting racial hatred. The 17-year-old from north Norfolk set up his own website where visitors had to pledge they “have never been a follower of the Jewish religion”. He also asked visitors to affirm they were white and they...26-02-2010 / United States
USA – Antisemitic graffiti in UC Davis
A swastika was carved into a Jewish student's door in the Tercero residence hall at University of California, Davis.
Source: http://www.sacbee.com/
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25-02-2010 / Britain
Britain - Homophobic and antisemitic preacher invited to London University
A Muslim cleric who has called Jews “filth” and gay people “sick” has been invited to speak at a London university.
Sheikh Abdullah Hakim Quick will speak at the Strand campus of Kings College on “Islamic solutions to environmental problems”, as part of the university’s green week.
Sheikh Quick was featured on a New Zealand television programme in 2003 where he called...
24-02-2010 / Canada
Canada - Antisemitic incidents in Canada reach record high
Antisemitic incidents in Canada rose to record levels, according to B'nai Brith Canada's annual audit.
The yearly survey released Wednesday showed an 11.4 percent increase in incidents in 2009 over the previous year to reach the highest number ever reported in the audit's 28-year history.
There were 1,264 anti-Jewish incidents last year, which encompassed acts of harassment, vandalism...
24-02-2010 / Brazil
Brazil – Antisemitic graffiti
Swastikas and the numbers 14 88 were spray-painted near Curitiba’s main Jewish institution.
A synagogue, youth movement, country club, Jewish school, and others are located in the area.
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23-02-2010 / United States
USA - Antisemitic graffiti found at local school
Antisemitic graffiti had been painted on outside walls and on several classroom windows on the side of the Louise Davy Trahan Elementary School in Tewksbury Massachusetts.
Senior building custodian Peter Thuillier found swastikas, vulgarity, ethnic slurs directed at Jewish people and a circled letter "A," known as the symbol for anarchy, done in white paint.
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22-02-2010 / Russia
Russia – Antisemitic graffiti
Antisemitic graffiti was spray-painted at the wall of one of the houses in Vilisa Latsis st. in Moscow. Source: http://www.aen.ru/ View Larger Map ...22-02-2010 / Sweden
Sweden - Jews leave Swedish city after sharp rise in antisemitic hate crimes
When she first arrived in Sweden after her rescue from a Nazi concentration camp, Judith Popinski was treated with great kindness.
She raised a family in the city of Malmo, and for the next six decades lived happily in her adopted homeland - until last year.
In 2009, a chapel serving the city's 700-strong Jewish community was set ablaze. Jewish cemeteries were repeatedly desecrated,...
21-02-2010 / Mexico
Mexico - Group of antisemitic thugs attacked Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's son
Rabbi David Yosef, the son of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, was attacked by a group of antisemites in Mexico City.
Rabbi David Yosef arrived in Mexico to assist the local Jewish community in the aftermath of the death of Jewish billionaire Moshe Saba in a helicopter crash.
Rabbi David Yosef left the Sha'arei Shalom synagogue and was making his way to the house he was...
21-02-2010 / Egypt
Egypt - Makeshift bomb hurled at Cairo synagogue
Egyptian police reported that a makeshift bomb was hurled at Cairo's main downtown synagogue in the early hours of the morning, causing a brief fire but no injuries, the official news agency reported.
An Egyptian security source said the device was thrown by an unknown person who arrived at the Panorama Hotel, which is located across the street from the synagogue. The man was carrying a...
20-02-2010 / Bulgaria
Bulgaria – Chabad emissary attacked by skinheads
The Chabad emissary in Sofia, Bulgaria, Rabbi Yossi Solomon was attacked on Friday night while returning home from the Central Synagogue in the center of the city, by a gang of skinhead youths.
A number of young skinheads approached the Rabbi while he was walking through the city streets together with three of his children and called out at him "Heil Hitler" and "Kill the Jews" while...
20-02-2010 / Russia
Russia - Bomb threat and antisemitic slur delay Jewish-themed Russian opera premiere
The premiere of a Jewish-themed opera in Saint Petersburg was delayed Thursday after an unknown person threatened to blow up the theatre, police said. The historic Mikhailovsky theatre had been due to present a staging of "The Jewess" by French composer Jacques Fromental Halevy when it received the threat, a police spokesman said. "An unknown person called the Mikhailovsky theatre to...20-02-2010 / United States
USA - Couple finds hate slur on newly paved walkway
A couple is disturbed, after recently paving their walkway they discover and antisemitic slur carved inside.
Jews, Alva and Alberto Motola just laid down fresh concrete at the end of their walkway, in North Bay Village, Florida, before the concrete could dry a symbol of hate surfaced, etched in their new pavement right in front of their home. "We understand that kids can do little things,...
18-02-2010 / Spain
Spain - Artistic performance offending Jews and Israel
A display by a Spanish artist, including a candelabrum growing out of the barrel of an Uzi sub-machinegun and a sculpture of a haredi figure standing on a priest, who kneels on a prostrate Muslim, has drawn fire from the Foreign Ministry. The Israeli Embassy in Madrid issued a statement Wednesday protesting the display at the International Art Fair in the Spanish capital.
"Values such as...
17-02-2010 / United States
USA - South Florida synagogue was vandalized
Police are investigating vandalism at a South Florida synagogue as a hate crime.
Authorities say burglars damaged property and left behind antisemitic and racist messages throughout Temple Beth El.
On Monday night, firefighters responded to a fire alarm at the Boca Raton synagogue. They found damages, including broken chairs and vases. Several messages were also carved into doors in the...
16-02-2010 / Italy
Italy – Antisemitic graffiti
Antisemitic and Neo Nazi graffiti were painted on a building in Voghera, a town in Lombardy. The phrases (includine “Juden Rauss” and “White Power”) were surrounded by swastikas and other far-right wing symbols. Source: http://ricerca.gelocal.it/ View Larger Map ...16-02-2010 / Lithuania
Lithuania - Demonstration with Nazi and antisemitic symbols
Lithuanian Independence Day noted across the country, lead to antisemitic incident in Klaipeda. During the demonstration, young people carried signs with swastikas. The young people were summoned to court for distribution and display of Nazi symbols.
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16-02-2010 / Switzerland
سويسرا – الاعتداء على اتباع حاباد
كان ثلاثة شبان، من اتباع حاباد يسيرون مشيا على الاقدام في شارع فرعي قرب ساحة Molrad في جنيف عندما خرج شابان بعمر 18-20 عاما من ذوي الملامح العربية وبدأوا بضربهم من خلال صرخات "الله اكبر". وهرب اتباع حاباد من المكان.16-02-2010 / Switzerland
Switzerland – Attack on Habad youths
Three young men, followers of Habad, were travelling on foot in a side street near Molrad plaza in Geneva, when suddenly two young men, aged 18-20, who appeared to be Arabs, burst forward and began kicking them, all the while crying "Allah Wakbar". The Habad followers consequently fled from the scene.16-02-2010 / Austria
Austria - Skinhead group give Hitler salute on visit to death camp where 120,000 people died
A group of young far-right supporters have shocked Austria by wearing pro-Nazi T-shirts and giving the Hitler salute during a visit to a death camp where 120,000 people were murdered.
The skinhead group from the town of Wels posted photographs of themselves on the Internet wearing the shirts at the site of the Mauthausen camp where tens of thousands of people were gassed, worked to death...
