Antisemitic events
18-12-2009 / United States
USA - Vegas teacher accused of denying Holocaust
A Las Vegas teacher has been told to stay home while district officials investigate a claim that she denied in class the Holocaust happened. Clark County schools spokesman Michael Rodriguez said Northwest Career and Technical Academy teacher Lori Sublette was assigned to remain home, and appropriate action would follow an investigation. Student Katie Piranio told the Las Vegas...18-12-2009 / Poland
Poland - Auschwitz 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign stolen
Infamous iron sign over gate to Auschwitz memorial site with cynical phrase 'Work Sets You Free' unscrewed, pulled off.
"Around 5 am today the museum administration informed us that the sign has been stolen. The whole area is under surveillance, there are many cameras there. We are now analyzing the film. I hope we will find the trail," a spokesman for the local police told TVP Info...
17-12-2009 / United States
USA - Rabbi's Menorah egged
A Boca Raton Rabbi has become a victim of a hate crime during the week of Hanukkah.
Rabbi Boruch Liberow said he put a menorah on top of his car to celebrate the holiday.
Late Tuesday night his family said it heard shouting and noise. They said it sounded like neighborhood teens being rowdy, but didn't think it had anything to do with them.
Wednesday morning Rabbi Liberow...
17-12-2009 / Australia
Australia – Antisemitic graffiti
Antisemitic Graffiti was spray-painted in Lyne Park, Rose Bay, Sydney
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17-12-2009 / Australia
Australia – Antisemitic graffiti
Antisemitic graffiti was spray-painted in a bathroom of a beach in Byron Bay.
Notice the noughts-and-crosses game in the centre of the photo...
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16-12-2009 / Israel
Israel - Lieberman: Modern antisemitism denies Israel's existence
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Wednesday that "classic anti-Semitism, alongside Iranian funding and Islamic antisemitism, are being used to inflame hatred against Jews, but also to delegitimize the State of Israel."
Speaking at the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem, the foreign minister said that this has become a complex attack, which has drawn the...
16-12-2009 / United States
USA - Racist graffiti found at two county schools
Howard County police are investigating an incident in which someone spray-painted racist graffiti on Hammond Middle School in North Laurel. Vandals spray-painted the outside of the school building and a trailer with a swastika and a gun firing at a Star of David. The graffiti also included an obscene drawing and the word “Hi” with a smiley face, police said. The three teenagers, all...14-12-2009 / Belgium
Belgium - Three "Hanouccia-car" vandalized at Uccle
Three cars each bearing a hanouccia (candelabra used for lighting candles of Hanukah) were vandalized. The three cars were parked in Avenue du Gui at Uccle, near the Yeshiva (Talmudic school). Source: http://www.antisemitisme.be/ View Larger Map ...14-12-2009 / Belgium
Belgium - Three "Hanouccia Car" vandalized at Uccle
Three cars each bearing a Menora (candelabra used for lighting candles of Hanukah) were vandalized and the Menoras were ripped of their mounting. The cars were parked in Avenue du Gui at Uccle, near the Yeshiva (Talmudic school). Source: http://www.antisemitisme.be/ View Larger Map ...14-12-2009 / Spain
Spain – Dudu Aouate was the victim of antisemitic remarks during a match against Osasuna
Each time that Aouate touched the ball during the first half, the Osasuna supporters chanted "Jewish bastard" towards him, despite having received warnings before and during the match that the team may be fined if they use racial abuse.
In the 25th minute, the local supporters decided to vary the taunts and the next time Aouate gathered the ball they chanted at him: "If Munua hit you –...
14-12-2009 / France
France - Antisemitism increases sharply
The French government has appointed a special coordinator to deal with anti-Semitism and other forms of racism.
Daily newspaper Le Figaro reports that Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux decided to appoint a coordinator after a huge increase in antisemitic incidents in the first nine months of the year.
During this period, 704 incidents against Jews were reported, up 350 on the year...
14-12-2009 / United States
USA - Masked men with Nazi flags disrupt Hanukkah ceremony
Pouring rain failed to dampen the spirits of a small group of families huddled on the Sherman Green gazebo to light a menorah on the third night of Hanukkah Sunday.
Neither did three masked men, who carrying Nazi flags and shouting obscenities, tried to disrupt the ceremony until they fled when police arrived.
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14-12-2009 / Moldova
Moldova - A Jewish religious symbol was desecrated
A menora, a Judaic religious symbol, the symbol of the Holy Light, located in the center of Chisinau, in a public place, was destroyed and replaced with a Cristian Orthodox Cross.
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13-12-2009 / United States
USA - Vandals smash car menorah
Unknown vandals in Worcester, Massachusetts, have smashed the car Menorah of Shliach Rabbi Yossi Prus.
"It seems like someone tried to steal our Menorah but didn't succeed, so they hit the car instead," Israeli-born Prus told COLlive.com.
A complaint has been filed with the Greater Worcester Police Department.
Prus said they are treating the case as a possible antisemitic...
13-12-2009 / Austria
Austria - Chabad rabbi attacked in Vienna
A Muslim man attacked a Chabad rabbi as he was conducting the annual ceremony to light the public Chanukah menorah in Stefenfaltz Square in the city of Vienna.
The attacker hurled himself at Rabbi Dov Gruzman, principal of the city’s Jewish school run by the Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement, and began punching him, a local resident told Arutz Sheva.
As the rabbi tried to hold off...
13-12-2009 / India
India - Book in India: Israelis crooks, drug addicts
Catholic priest in Goa publishes book on 'dealing with tourists from Israel,' whom he calls 'druggies' that make real nuisance. He claims Israelis behave this way because they 'go crazy from military service'
This is the impression that young Israelis leave behind in Goa. Indian media outlets reported Sunday on a new book published by a Catholic priest in Goa, a tourist hot spot, that...
11-12-2009 / Hungary
Hungary - Jewish cemetery desecrated in Szekesfehervar
A Jewish cemetery in Szekesfehervar has been vandalized. Crossed Star of Daivd has been painted on 12 graves, 1 statue and an undercroft. Many of the graves have been bent down.
On the wall of a memorial hall, the following sentence has been painted: "We don't need Jewish casino".
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11-12-2009 / Ukraine
Ukraine - Vandals strike holocaust monument
Police detained four youths in Kamenets-Podolsky, on accusations that they vandalized a Holocaust monument. The youths allegedly gathered ritual stones from nearby gravestones at the Holocaust site and threw them at the monument, damaging it in several places. Source: http://www.ucsj.org/ View Larger Map ...11-12-2009 / Ukraine
Ukraine - Mayor keeps up antisemitic rhetoric
In an extensive interview with a Ukrainian news web site, Uzhgorod mayor Sergey Ratushnyak again made several antisemitic statements. The December 3, 2009 interview published on Rupor.info featured the mayor defending his use of the word "zhid" ("Yid" in Ukrainian and Russian) ,and his claims that Jews control the Ukrainian media. According to the mayor, a group of Ukrainian "Jewish clans"...
10-12-2009 / The Palestinian authority
The Palestinian Authority - Hamas's film shows the Israeli education system as racist
Hamas children's television program shows stereotypical Jews and the Israeli education system as racist.
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