Antisemitic events
01-06-2010 / Germany
Germany – Anti-Israeli graffiti on Jewish Council
Anonymous persons vandalized the building of the Jewish Council in the State of Hessen. They wrote on the entrance door "Free Gaza - long live global intifida". In the same building four Jewish organizations are based - the Jewish Agency for Israel for instance.
Furthermore the unknown group of at least four people wrote "Stop the offense against the Gaza-flotilla". On the doorbell of the...
01-06-2010 / Britain
Britain - Ken Loach calls Israel "a racist state"
Award-winning British film director Ken Loach has described Israel as a "racist state" in an interview with the Turkish daily Vakit newspaper. The director said the Israeli state was based on the ethnicity of those who are given automatic citizenship; this in itself is "proof of its racism". Responding to Israeli claims that those criticising Israel are anti-Semitic, Mr. Loach said that this...
31-05-2010 /
The Palestinian Authority - Gaza flotilla participants chanted Islamic battle cry invoking killing of Jews and called for Martyr
On the day before the Gaza flotilla confronted the Israeli navy, Al-Jazeera TV documented the pre-battle atmosphere created by men on board the flotilla, who chanted a well-known Islamic battle cry invoking the killing and defeat of Jews in battle:
"[Remember] Khaibar, Khaibar, oh Jews! The army of Muhammad will return!"
Khaibar is the name of the last Jewish village defeated by...
31-05-2010 / Hungary
Hungary - Jewish cemetery vandalized
Graves were vandalised and a marble tombstone stolen overnight from the Jewish cemetery in Varpalota, western Hungary, the head of the Hungarian-Israeli Friendship Society of Varpalota told MTI.
Gabor Ujvari said that unknown persons had pushed over one and broken seven headstones while a marble stone was found missing. He said it was not the first time the cemetery in Varpalota had been...
30-05-2010 / United States
USA - California teens play “Beat the Jew”
A Facebook fan page outlining a game called “Beat the Jew” has been shut-down. The game, where “the Jew” is chased down the highway, was played by some 40 high school students in Southern California's La Quinta High. Rabbi Posner voiced outrage, while the school principal says the students involved can't even be expelled.
School administrators learned about the...
29-05-2010 / France
France - Car of French antisemitism leader torched
The car belonging to the head of a French antisemitism organisation was burned overnight outside of his house in a Parisian suburb.
Sammy Ghozlan, president of the BNVCA, called the burning of his car "an antisemitic attack and intimidation."
Police said they had opened an arson investigation after Ghozlan filed a complaint.
The vehicle was in the driveway inside the yard of his...
28-05-2010 / Lithuania
Lithuania - Court: Swastikas not a Nazi symbol
The May 19 ruling capped a three-month case involving four men who displayed swastikas at Klaipeda’s national independence parade.
“It is not a Nazi attribute, but a valuable symbol of the Baltic culture, an ancient sign of our ancestors, which had been stolen from them and treacherously used by other peoples,” one of the defense witnesses said, according Russia’s English news...
27-05-2010 / Germany
Germany – Synagogue desecrated
Swastikas and the number “88” – which in Neo-Nazi circles represents the slogan “Heil Hitler” - were sprayed on graves in the cemetery of Staßfurt town.
The German Police reported that the cemetery was locked and the perpetrators probably climbed its wall.
It was also reported that paint samples were taken from the tombs to help detect suspects.
“We immediately called...
27-05-2010 / Canada
Canada - Public servant claims rights victory following antisemitism complaint
A Jewish public servant has won a major human rights victory against the federal government after complaining that her workplace at the Ottawa headquarters of Passport Canada was poisoned by antisemitism.
In a stinging decision, federal adjudicator Michele Pineau ruled that some of Valéry LaBranche’s fellow employees discriminated against her because of her adherence to the laws of...
26-05-2010 / Germany
Germany – Grandson of slain trainer attacked
The grandson of athletics trainer Amitzur Shapira, may he rest in peace - one of Is the Israeli Olympic team-members that were assassinated at the Munich Massacre – was victim to a violent assault which– just like that horrific incident during the Olympic Games – was a result of a burning hatred towards Jews.
The incident took place during the early evening, at the bus station of...
26-05-2010 / Israel
Israel - Swastikas sprayed on Holocaust survivors monument in Dimona
Dimona municipality workers on Wednesday were shocked to discover dozens of swastikas sprayed on a monument for late Member of Knesset Yuri Stern and Dimona residents who fought in the Red Army against the Nazis during World War II.
Some of the Nazi symbols were also sprayed on the municipality building. Police opened an investigation and said they expects to make arrests soon....
26-05-2010 / Russia
Russia - Jewish group concerned by series of antisemitic incidents in Ulyanovsk
The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR) released a statement expressing concern over a string of antisemitic incidents in Ulyanovsk. According to FEOR, on April 20 (Hitler's birthday) graffiti reading "death to the kikes" appeared in several parts of the city. On May 1, antisemitic leaflets were circulated at a Communist party meeting, and on May 9 (Victory Day), a group of...25-05-2010 / Russia
Russia – Antisemitic leaflets
These leaflets were slicked in Tver during the V-Day. The leaflet says "Only 65 years after WWII we understood who our enemy is. Stop fraternal wars!"
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25-05-2010 / Poland
Poland - Cemetery in Sosnowiec desecrated
Vandals destroyed 56 tombstones in the Jewish cemetery on ul. Commerce in Sosnowiec. Some of them have only been overturned, many broke into pieces. As is clear from the preliminary findings of the police, this incident took place last week, late at night.
Source: http://www.jewish.org.pl/
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24-05-2010 / United States
USA - Comedy Central's antisemitic video game: 'you lied to me, Jew producer'
Around the same time they were caving in to pressure to delete all Mohammed references from an episode of "South Park," the geniuses at Comedy Central posted an online video game containing truly staggering antisemitic images.
This abomination was originally called "I.S.R.A.E.L. Attack!" due to the lead character being a murderous robot named "I.S.R.A.E.L." -- "Intelligent Smart Robot...
24-05-2010 / Britain
Britain - Wembley's soccer shocker
Football's authorities may have tried to kick racism out of the sport but this t-shirt slipped through the Wembley turnstiles at the FA Cup final at the weekend.
Jewish Chelsea supporter Michael Coplans spotted it as spectators left the stadium after the game.
Taking its wearer to be a fan of opposing club Portsmouth, he said; "I can only think the 99 is a reference to their financial...
22-05-2010 / Britain
Britain - BNP Councillor: “about 300,000 people died in the Jewish Holocaust”
The Nothing British about the BNP group revealed this ugly photograph, showing Stoke on Trent’s first BNP councilor, Steve Batkin, posing in front a war memorial.
Batkin is on the far right of the photograph. (Any pun here is entirely accidental. Besides, you can see in the photograph that from Batkin’s perspective, the three men with stiff arms are all to his right.)
Now, local...
18-05-2010 / Greece
Greece - New antisemitic attack in Greece
Just days after a violent attack against the Jewish cemetery of Salonika, in northern Greece, the Holocaust Monument on the island of Rhodes was desecrated, marking a dangerous increase of antisemitism in Greece, the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) reported.
The unidentified vandals used a heavy object in their attempt to smash the Magen David on one façade of the...
18-05-2010 / Canada
Canada - Antisemitic graffiti scrawled at Jewish hangout
Victoria police are looking for those responsible for spraying hate based graffiti in Clawthorpe Park.
Cst. Rick Anthony says the playground equipment was tagged with antisemitic graffiti, this includes swastikas and hurtful language.
The graffiti has been removed by city staff.
Source: http://www.cfax1070.com/
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17-05-2010 / Germany
Germany - Arson attack on synagogue
Police in the western Germany say they are investigating an arson attack on a synagogue in the city of Worms.
Overnight someone poured a flammable liquid on the stone building and set it alight.
Officers found several copies of a letter claiming responsibility for the attack which read, in badly worded German: "As soon as you don't leave the Palestinians in peace, we won't let...
