Antisemitic events
07-07-2010 / Sweden
Sweden - Verbal abuse
During an evening at the Jewish community in Stockholm, a Rabbi was walking on his way home. At a junction in the city center he meets four men at the ages of 20-25, all with Arab appearance. The men starting shouting slogans against him including: "Damn Israel ... We will beat Israel ... Do you want to die?!... You will die!" The men also yelled at him in Arabic. The Rabbi runs in to a taxi...04-07-2010 / Poland
Poland - Gaza freedom graffiti in the Warsaw ghetto (Video)
Israeli and Polish activists met in the ruins of Warsaw’s old Jewish Ghetto.
The activists sprayed ‘Liberate All Ghettos’ in Hebrew, followed by ‘Free Gaza and Palestine’ in English on a wall of an original block in the ghetto. The block is across the street from the last fragment of the remaining perimeter wall of the Ghetto. They also hung Palestinian flags from the...
04-07-2010 / Sweden
Sweden - Antisemitic crimes soar
The number of antisemitic crimes reported in Sweden rose 57 percent last year, the national crime prevention council said. Last year, 250 antisemitic crimes were reported, mainly in the southern region of Skåne, up 57 percent compared to 2008, the report said, adding the overall number of hate crimes reported in Sweden had remained unchanged. "In 2009, 5,800 hate crimes were reported....04-07-2010 / Netherlands
Holland - Discrimination is going down, including antisemitism: official report
The number of complaints about antisemitism in the Netherlands is going down but there has been an increase in physical attacks on Muslims, according to the environment ministry's latest racial discrimination report.
The monitor looks at trends in discrimination and concludes that attacks on Jews and Muslims vary according to national and international factors, such as the murder of film...
02-07-2010 / France
France – Jew assaulted with iron rod
A Jewish man was assaulted by his neighbor on his way to the synagogue in Villeurbanne (69). He was consequently injured in his face. The assault came after a quarrel over an inflatable pool in the Jewish family’s yard. The assault was preceded by antisemitic remarks directed against him for several days. The two vehicles of the family were mutilated the day after the assault. Source:...02-07-2010 /
Minority Rights Group launches world report, warns about rising extremism
A rise in right-wing radicalism is fuelling the spread of xenophobia and extremist attitudes towards religious minorities in Europe, the Minority Rights Group International (MRG) said in a press release coinciding with the launch of the group's world report in Budapest on Thursday.
"Ultra right-wing parties, aiming to establish themselves in mainstream political arenas in Europe, justify...
01-07-2010 /
Europe - Moshe Kantor: situation of Jews in Europe ‘at its worst since end of WWII’
European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor believes that the situation of European Jewry "is at its worst since the end of World War II."
"Jews are afraid to walk the streets in Europe with Jewish signs. Synagogues, Jewish schools and kindergartens require barbed-wire fences and security and Jewish men, women and children are beaten up in broad daylight," he said in a message to MEPs...
30-06-2010 / Austria
Austria – Antisemitic march in Vienna (Video)
The big pro-Hamas demonstration in Vienna was different from demonstrations in other European cities. One of its main speakers was Omar al Rawi, a Social Democratic (SPÖ) member of Vienna’s local parliament (Wiener Landtag), who is also “Integrationsbeauftragter” (officially responsible for the integration of foreigners) belonging to the Muslim religious community of Austria. Omar al...
30-06-2010 / United States
USA - In letter, Farrakhan accuses Jews of hurting blacks
The Nation of Islam leader (Louis Farrakhan ) sent the letter, as well as a two-volume copy of "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews" by the Nation of Islam Historical Research Team, which he said proves "an undeniable record of Jewish Anti-Black behavior".
"We could charge you with being the most deceitful so-called friend, while your history with us shows you have been our...
30-06-2010 / United States
USA - Farrakhan's antisemitic address on the "real" children of Israel (Video)
Approximately 5,000 people attended the event at the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center, during which Louis Farrakhan gave a two-and-a-half-hour speech rife with conspiracy theories about Jews and Israel, and Jewish control of government, finance and entertainment.
The ostensible point of Farrakhan's speech was that Blacks, not Jews, are the "real" children of Israel. In crafting this...
30-06-2010 / Iran
Iran - Ahmadinejad orders boycott of "Zionist" companies
The Iranian president signed an amendment to the law for supporting Palestinians, which prohibits the Iranian broadcast authority from airing advertisements that promote "Zionist" companies, such as Nestle and Coca Cola. In addition, the law obligates the Iranian foreign minister to hold a committee to identify and locate products from "Zionist" companies in the country and raise the issue of...
30-06-2010 / Canada
Canada - Jewish office building evacuated due to bomb threat
The Lipa Green Building, which is home to many offices serving the Toronto Jewish community including UJA Federation, was evacuated on Tuesday afternoon following threats of a bomb in the building.
Two phone calls were received over a period of two hours. Both times, the person who made the call informed of a bomb in the building. As a result, the building was evacuated.
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29-06-2010 / France
France - Jewish grave desecrated in Perigueux
Two juveniles, ages 13 and 14 were arrested after the desecration of Jewish cemetery in Perigueux, according to Le Figaro.
The Two teenagers are suspected of drawing swastikas on three Jewish tombs.
The two youth who had no connection with extreme-right groups, were arrested by the police.
Source: http://www.spcj.org/
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29-06-2010 / Spain
Spain – Antisemitic graffiti
The phrase"Palestina libre" was spray-painted (Free Palestine) on an ancient Hebrew inscription Barcelona's Gothic Quarter near the synagogue.
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28-06-2010 / New Zealand
New-Zealand - Radio host suspended over anti-Jew comments (Video)
Radio host David Fane has been suspended by the Radio Network following his racist and homophobic remarks at a media event.
Fane, who hosts a breakfast show on radio station Flava and was a creator for the animated TV show bro'Town, told an audience at the inaugural Radio Roast that "Hitler had a right", HIV sufferers deserved to be "roasted", and "Jews were expendable".
As Fane already...
28-06-2010 / Germany
Germany - 2 Israelis attacked in Berlin nightclub
Berlin police are investigating whether a brawl at a nightclub in the German capital involving two Israeli tourists and a man of Palestinian descent was provoked by antisemitism. The Tagesspiegel reported that the two Israelis, aged 22 and 18, were attacked at a nightclub located in the city's Kreuzberg district. One of the club's employees reportedly approached the 22-year old tourist...27-06-2010 / Poland
Poland – Antisemitism in the City of Zary
Unknown persons broke into the Joint Jewish Cultural Society Building in the Polish City of Zary, threw a Sefer Torah on the floor and destroyed the furniture in the building, broke windows and wrote on the board: “Hitler did it”.
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27-06-2010 / France
France – Antitisemitic document
An association of the Jewish community has received an antitisemitic document.
Source: http://www.spcj.org/
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26-06-2010 / France
France- Rabbi verbally attacked
In Essonne (91) a Rabbi was verbally attacked and his vehicle damaged after the football match between the USA and Algeria in the World Cup. A group of youths attacked the Rabbi verbally with shouts of “dirty Jew” etc. Damage was also caused to the Rabbi’s car. Source:...25-06-2010 / Turkey
Turkey - Man holds for plotting to kill Istanbul rabbis
Turkish security forces have arrested a man for allegedly plotting to kill Istanbul rabbis, relying on report by the Turkey daily Milliyet.
İsmet Rençber, a man in his 20s from Kars, was detained, according to the AFP report, upon his arrival in Istanbul after tracking him for sending an anonymous threat to the city's main synagogue.
Rençber reportedly told investigators that he...
