Antisemitic events
23-07-2010 / Argentina
Argentina – Antisemitic graffiti
An Antisemitic slogan was sprayed in the Junin Area of Buenos Aires. The slogan read “Death to the Jews”.
Source: http://www.perfil.com/
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22-07-2010 / Germany
Germany – Antisemitic abusive writing
The words “No Jews” were sprayed in a bus station at Schoenberg.
Source: http://www.svz.de/
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22-07-2010 / France
France – Synagogue desecrated in Melum
Blasphemous Antisemitic slogans were sprayed on the Synagogue in Melun. Inscriptions of 70 meters in length were sprayed, saying for example: “Hitler did not finish the job”, “Death to the Jews”.
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22-07-2010 / United States
USA - Antisemitic bias crime reported in Hoboken
According to a police report, an unknown person spray-painted the word “JEW” with an arrow pointing toward a second-floor window of a four-story brick residential building in 524 Bloomfield Street, Hoboken.
The graffiti was written in 12-inch letters, according to the report.
Source: http://hudsonreporter.com/
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21-07-2010 / Poland
Poland – Antisemitic writings on a wall in Wroclawiu
A modern-styled wall at 51 Zeromskiego St., which was designed by German, Polish and U.S artists, was mutilated with the writings “down with the Jews!” and “we welcome terror in the streets!’. This incident took place in parallel to the international “Diversity” Project, which was inaugurated on June 11th, at the Edyty Stein House in Nowowiejskiej Street. This project includes the...
21-07-2010 / France
France - Jewish cemetery in Wolfisheim was desecrated (Video)
27 tombstones knocked over and broken at the Jewish cemetery in the city Wolfisheim
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20-07-2010 / Germany
Germany – Monuments desecrated in Gera
The lobby for monuments in the city of Gera declared that monuments in Gera were once again desecrated. This time, the target was the memorial plaque of the Sinenski family, a Jewish family of traders in Gera.
The monument of another family of traders – the Biermann family – was stolen from the sidewalk at the end of June and has never been found again. The lobby for monuments is Gera...
19-07-2010 / Britain
Britain - Man racially abused judge
A man who made antisemitic remarks about a Jewish judge who had ruled against him has been given a 12-month suspended prison sentence and fined nearly £2,000. Gregory Hughes, who owned a tattoo business in Sheffield, admitted to making a number of derogatory comments about District Judge Charles Khan's Jewishness and position as a judge. He made the remarks during Judge Khan's ruling...18-07-2010 / United States
USA - Distributor of "Kill Jews" leaflets caught by police
A bigot was busted after he scattered papers scrawled with antisemetic threats outside the Jewish Guild for the Blind on the Upper West Side, police said.
In a bizarre act of hatred, Dimitrios Apolonides, 37 left several small pieces of paper that said "Kill Jews" on the street and sidewalk outside the guild on West 65th Street near Central Park West, cops said.
Police arrested him...
18-07-2010 / The Palestinian authority
The Palestinian authority - Holocaust denial from the PLO ambassador to Austria
This is a translation of an article written by former PLO ambassador to Vienna Dr. Ghazi Hussein in Al-Ba'th, the daily of the Syrian ruling party, in which he claims that the Zionist movement collaborated with the Nazis and pressured Western countries to close their gates to Jewish refugees, in order to force them to immigrate to Palestine. He adds that the Zionists give an exaggerated...
16-07-2010 / Poland
Poland - Holocaust heroine's grave desecrated
An antisemitic inscription was engraved on the grave of Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto.
The words "Jews out" were sprayed on the grave in a Warsaw cemetery.
A spokesman for the police said an investigation had been launched to try to identify the perpetrator.
Sendler died in May 2008 at the age of 98. Before World War II,...
14-07-2010 / Venezuela
Venezuela – Antisemitic graffiti
Antisemitic graffiti was spray-painted in the UN headquarter building in Caracas.
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13-07-2010 / Brazil
Brazil – Swastika at Jewish school
A swastika was painted in the external wall of a Jewish school in Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil.
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13-07-2010 / Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia - Jews as vermin
This cartoon appeared in the English-language publication "Arab News" in Saudi Arabia:
It shows Jews as mice wearing Nazi-style helmets adorned with Stars of David scurrying in and out of a building labelled "Palestine House". The depiction of Jews as vermin is an old antisemitic staple, going back to Nazi Propaganda films The Wandering Jew, and The Jew Suss, and probably further back...
11-07-2010 / Germany
Germany - German official: Extremists share antisemitism
A top security official says he sees antisemitism in both right-wing and Muslim extremists in Germany.
Heinz Fromm, president of the domestic intelligence agency, is quoted in Der Spiegel Sunday as saying both have "a similar picture of the enemy: Israel and the Jews overall."
Fromm said that while neo-Nazis adhere to a racist antisemitism, Muslim extremists "are oriented toward the...
11-07-2010 / Russia
Russia - UCSJ releases report on antisemitism
The latest Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union (UCSJ) report highlights the persisting problem of Antisemitic violence in Russia.
Following several Antisemitic events across the country last year, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR) announced that it would reintroduce a hot line for Russian Jews to call if they experience antisemitism, the report points...
11-07-2010 / Iran
Iran - Ahmadinejad questions 'fairy tale' Holocaust, denies being antisemite
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioned the historic dimensions of the Holocaust but rejected the label of an antisemite.
"The West made a claim, about the Holocaust, and urges all the people in the world to accept it or otherwise go to prison," Ahmadinejad told a group of Islamic scholars in Nigeria, where he attended a summit of the Developing Eight, a group of countries...
11-07-2010 / United States
USA - New City synagogue vandalized
A synagogue at the West Clarkstown Jewish Center that was undergoing repairs after it was destroyed by fire a year ago was vandalized by someone who broke in overnight and damaged the sanctuary.
It appeared that the vandals got in through a window. Because of ongoing repair work, there is construction material in the building.
Whoever broke into the building took joint compound, a...
10-07-2010 / Canada
Canada – Antisemitic cartoon in major Quebec paper
The cartoon above was featured in Quebec’s La Tribune. It depicts former Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) and leader of the Action démocratique du Québec Mario Dumont with dollar signs in his eyes. His hands our extended toward two, hook-nosed, yarmulke wearing, Jews with side curls. All are classic anti-Semitic depictions of Jews.
In the caption, Dumont tells the two...
09-07-2010 / United States
USA - Racist, antisemitic graffiti at complex (Video)
Vandals hit a popular sports complex in Seminole, FL, leaving racist, antisemitic graffiti all over the place. It's a place where hundreds of kids practice soccer and baseball every night.
"It's not something that you want your kids to see on their concession stand wall, or at their complex," said Matthew Risley, administrator of the Gulf Coast United Soccer Club.
Risley says vandals...
