Antisemitic events
31-01-2010 / Germany
Germany - Muslim antisemitism in Germany
Below is a news report from German TV about the extent of Muslim antisemitism in Germany and elsewhere, with a particular focus on the Palestinian issue. Source: http://www.youtube.com/31-01-2010 / Ukraine
Ukraine - Leaflets distributed calling for genocide of Jews in the streets
On the streets of Sudak, Crimea, Anonymous people distributed leaflets urging passersby for genocide of the Jews.
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28-01-2010 / Italy
Italy – antisemitic graffiti
Antisemitic graffiti have been bomb-sprayed at Via Cavour in Rome by the extreme rightist movement Militia.
The graffiti are meant against the president of the Jewish community, Riccardo Pacifici and also against the mayor, Alemanno, who is named "the Zionist worm."
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28-01-2010 / Italy
Italy - antisemitic graffiti
Antisemitic graffiti was sprayed-painted on Via Cavour in Rome by the extreme right movement Militia.
Addresses are against the head of the Jewish community Riccardo Pacifici, and against the mayor Alemanno called "Zionist worm"
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28-01-2010 / Poland
Poland – Antisemitic graffiti
Antisemitic graffiti was spray-painted on the Jewish community building in the city of Wroclaw.
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28-01-2010 / United States
USA - Another sick call to ‘KILL JEWS’
In a stunning display of intolerance, Sixth Avenue in Park Slope was littered with strips of papers reading “KILL JEWS” in capital letters from Fourth to Ninth streets on Wednesday.
Nearly two dozen of the strips were picked up by Karen Guilbert, who had just finished walking her daughter to school.
Last September, the same notes turned up in Bay Ridge, Boerum Hill and Clinton Hill....
28-01-2010 / Sweden
Sweden - Mayor of Malmo: Zionism is racism
Anotherantisemitic Swedish/Scandinavian politician denies the Jews their obvious right to determine their own lives. In an interview, ironicallyabout stamping out antisemtism in Malmö, Sweden,Mayor of Malmö, Ilmar Reepalu, blames the collective Jew, Israel, for recentattacks against Jews in Malmö, "due to the conflict in Gaza last year spilled over to Malmo."
But Reepalu goes further...
27-01-2010 / Malaysia
Malaysia - Former Malaysian leader: Jews cause world’s problems
Malaysia’s former prime minister accused America’s "Jewish lobby" of preventing President Obama from ending the war in Afghanistan.
Local Malaysian media reported that Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, who ruled the Muslim nation between 1981 and 2003, told the Conference for the Support of Al-Quds on Jan. 21 that AIPAC was hindering two of Obama’s key election promises: ending the war in...
27-01-2010 / United States
USA - Antisemitic drawing taped to Jewish restaurant
Dalia Falcon from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, found drawings of a swastika and KKK symbols taped to the door of her Jewish restaurant, Jerusalem Mediterranean, on Withers Drive. Source: http://www.carolinalive.com/ View Larger Map ...27-01-2010 / Italy
Italy - Jokes over the Holocaust on sugar small bags
"Who wins a race between a German and a Jew? The German, because he burns the Jew at the starting line".
This horrific sentence is print on the back of sugar bags distributed in different café and pubs in Scandiano in Northern Italy.
Some citizens of Scandiano have been asking to remove the bags: "We are abashed and offended about these "jokes" over the Holocaust, which is huge tragedy...
27-01-2010 / Britain
Britain - Holocaust exhibition in Oxford vandalized
An exhibition marking Holocaust Memorial Day in a public park in Oxford has been vandalized. Oxford artist Nicholas Hedges set up hundreds of 2ft-high metal stands at Shotover Park as part of a display. The artist was inspired by visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau. Each was marked with a label containing extracts from a diary written by a Polish mayor during the early 1940s. Mr...27-01-2010 / France
France - Jewish cemetery in Strasbourg desecrated
Vandals have defiled a Jewish cemetery in the city of Strasbourg with swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans, the daily Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace reported Wednesday.
The swastikas were smeared on about 20 tombstones, while the German phrase 'Juden Raus' (Jews, get out) was scrawled elsewhere in the cemetery. Other tombstones were overturned.
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27-01-2010 / Austria
Austria - Statistics: Antisemitic incidents reported in 2009
Antisemitic incidents reported in 2009 to the "
Forum gegen Antisemitismus
" (Forum against antisemitiam.
Antisemitic statement in the Media: 6
Insult / threat: 33
Smeared: 47
Internet: 17
Damage: 10
Libel call / letter: 44
Threatening telephone call...
26-01-2010 / Netherlands
Holland - Antisemitism on the rise in Amsterdam
In 2009, the number of antisemite incidents in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, doubled compared to the year before. In 2008, 14 antisemitic incidents were reported in the Dutch capital, making for relatively calm year in the city that is home to most of the country’s approximately 40,000 Jews. New - as yet unpublished - data collected by a semi-governmental agency that reports on...26-01-2010 / Iran
Iran - Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi and Antisemitic Speeches
On January 5, 2010, Mesbah-Yazdi gave a lecture containing non-mistakable Antisemitic themes to senior Revolutionary Guards officials in the city of Qom. The lecture focused on the “latest plots against Iran”, as well as “corruption on Earth”. Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi dedicated a considerable portion of his lecture to what he referred to as the major role played by Jews in those...
25-01-2010 / United States
USA - Vandalism included racist symbols
Several acts of Vandalism discovered in Sunderland involved racism and antisemitism symbols. The vandalism occurred on Borough, Mill Brook and North roads in Sunderland. The vandalism included racist and antisemitic words and symbols in shaving cream on vehicles and buildings, as well as thrown eggs, fruit and other food items. Source:...25-01-2010 / Poland
Poland - Holocaust was a Jewish invention, says top Polish bishop
Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek, one of Poland’s most prominent religious figures, is reported to have told an Italian Catholic news web site that the Holocaust was a "Jewish invention".
"The Holocaust, as such, is a Jewish invention [invenzione ebraica]. We could just as well establish a day of remembrance to the numerous victims of communism, when Catholics and Christians were persecuted," he...
25-01-2010 / Italy
Italy – Antisemitic graffiti
Antisemitic graffiti was spray-painted in Sacile (Friuli-Venezia Giulia - prov. Pordenone), on the external wall of Scuola Media Statale M. E P. Balliana
The graffiti says: "La shoà è una truffa" (the shoà it' fraud")
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24-01-2010 /
The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism - 2009 Summary
The result of the Jewish Agency's report released on Sunday showing global antisemitism spiraling out of control recalls the memorable line in the film Casablanca, in which police Captain Renault announces that Rick's Cafe must be closed because of illegal activity. "I'm shocked, shocked to discover that gambling is going on here!" says Renault while being handed the proceeds of his gambling...
24-01-2010 /
Moldova - Antisemitic graffiti in Kishinev
An antisemitic graffiti was spray-painted at Puskin Street in Kishinev. The graffiti says: "
Fooled the world with the holocaust" "defend the country"
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