Elaina Cohen claims that Labour councillor Mahmood Hussain said he would not support her application for an inner-city ward because 'my Muslim members don't want you because you are Jewish'.

She said: 'I am shocked and upset that a member of the Labour Party in this day and age could even think something like that, let alone say it.

Lorraine Briscoe, who runs a local community association, was sitting next to Mrs Cohen when the conversation took place on speakerphone last Tuesday.

'I was disgusted that a councillor could make comments like that in 2009,' she said.

'He told her, "They will not vote for someone who is white and Jewish. My Muslim members don't want you because you are Jewish".

'Elaina then asked him if he had talked to his Muslim members about it and he said, "I don't want to talk about it with you" and hung up.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1174046/Labour-Party-embroiled-race-row-candidate-told-white-Jewish-selected.html

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Come accade spesso ad una buona parte del movimento per i diritti delle donne anche chi si batte per il rispetto delle persone gay perde di vista la causa principale mettendosi a sostenere cause del tutto fuori luogo. In Canada è esplosa la polemica. Riporto anche la risposta dei gruppi ebraici gay.

John Greyson, a leading filmmaker of gay-themed cinema, had verbally accepted an invitation to premier one of his films in June at the Tel Aviv International LGBT film festival, organized by TLVFest.

Last month, Greyson sent organizers a cancellation letter saying "Israeli apartheid week" - an annual series of anti-Israel events in Canada - "helped clarify" his thoughts. Not joining the "growing boycott movement against Israeli apartheid," he said, "is unthinkable, impossible."

Hochner noted Geryson had asked his help in arranging a screening in Ramallah's PA-funded film house. Homosexuality is a crime in the Palestinian Authority, and sodomy carries a ten-year jail term. Hamas, which rules Gaza, has an overtly anti-gay stance based on Islamic law.

When asked whether the legal status of gay people in Ramallah and Gaza could deter him from showing his works there, Greyson said: "I haven't been invited to show my work in Gaza so this hypothetical question is irrelevant. There are plenty of places where I have not been invited to show my work," he added.

"As an outspoken Israeli gay and civil rights activist, I am puzzled at Greyson's ability to so slickly sidestep the blatant gay apartheid in Gaza," said Jonathan Danilowitz, an activist in the gay support group Tehila, who immigrated to Israel from Johannesburg in 1971.

 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1078916.html

 http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/Pride_Toronto_distances_itself_from_politics-6851.aspx

members of the Jewish gay communities in both Toronto and Montreal have voiced concerns over the increasing presence of virulent, anti-Israel political messaging that has sprouted up at the parade since the middle part of the decade.

In recent years, anti-Israel groups in Toronto have slipped into the parade without permission from organizers, their members bearing signs denouncing Israel as an apartheid state.

But current Jewish registrants and some potential parade attendees remained fearful for their safety, as well as disappointed and skeptical of Pride’s decision last week to allow QuAIA to participate.

Wendy Lampert, Canadian Jewish Congress’ director of community relations, said she hoped the Pride organizers understand the potential “discomfort” they would cause Jewish community members by including the group.

“There is an irony in that the LGBT community that was marginalized for so long… would now, in this moment, permit other communities to be marginalized at one of its own events,” Lampert said.

“I think that people who wish to demonstrate against Israel have every right to do so, but not in the Pride Parade. I don’t think they should be allowed to manipulate Pride in this way, to turn it into an ugly, scapegoating spectacle,” Peters said.

http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17102&Itemid=86

A group of prominent gay opinion-shapers from around the world are to visit Israel to grapple with the country's sexuality issues on a five-day seminar centering around Tel Aviv's gay pride parade

"We know that gays around the world are liberal usually and they tend to identify with the Palestinians," explained Meir, "and we find it a bit ironic because you can't really be gay in the Palestinian territories."

"We're hoping to show that Israel is a liberal country, a multicultural, pluralistic country," emphasized Meir. "That is a side of Israel we are very proud of and that we think should be shown around the world.

"Unfortunately it's a side that doesn't get enough attention… As far as a lot of people are concerned, Israel is Gaza and the West Bank and tanks, and they don't see the beautiful culture and the liberal side."

 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371033880&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

 

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President Barack Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has unleashed a fusillade of anti-Semitic and anti-Hispanic vitriol among white supremacists and racists angry at the nomination of the first Hispanic to the high court.

White supremacists and anti-Semites have flooded Internet sites with messages charging the Sotomayor nomination is the result of "Jewish power" and conspiracy theories about Jewish control of the government and media.

 

In their online writings, white supremacists argue that "Jewish power" was responsible for Sotomayor's nomination and her previous career success; that Sotomayor is herself Jewish, or, in the words of one racist, a "cryptojew;" and that Sotomayor was handpicked by Jews because of her Latino heritage in an effort to "destroy the white race."

http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASUS_12/5551_12.htm

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Despite his sectarian, racist incitements that Jews are "scum...rats...pigs and monkeys," the chief cleric of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Sheikh Abdul Rahman al Sudais, has been welcomed and invited to preach at the East London mosque in Whitechapel tonight, Tuesday evening, 4 August 2009. 

Al-Sudais, who has close ties to the Saudi elite, has also insulted Christians and Hindus, referring disparagingly to Christians as "cross-worshippers" and Hindus as "idol worshippers".

He has been banned from Canada for his anti-Semitism.

"The East London mosque received $US1m from the Saudis towards its new London Muslim Centre. The mosque's links to Saudi Arabia go back many years, according to the BBC.

"I don't understand why the Home Secretary is allowing al-Sudais into Britain, given that similar hate preachers have been banned. Is it because of the close business links between the British and Saudi establishments? " queried Mr Tatchell.

The Daily Telegraph has confirmed and reported this anti-Semitism, noting that al-Sudais has described Jews as "scum of the earth", "rats of the world" and "monkeys and pigs" and suggested that they would be annihilated.

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The number of anti-Semitic incidents documented in Holland in January almost equaled the number of attacks recorded throughout the whole of 2008, according to the annual report by the country's watchdog on anti-Semitism.

The report by the Hague-based Center for Information and Documentation (CIDI) presents 98 attacks in January, as the Israel Defense Forces was attacking in Gaza. The total number of attacks in 2008 was 108.

The number of physical attacks during January was nine. Only three such attacks were recorded in 2007, and five in 2008. The remaining attacks were of hate speech and mail. 

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1113461.html

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We start from the premise that not all criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic. But demonization of Israel is. Equating Israel with the Nazi regime is. Attacking Judaism as the evil inspiration for Israeli policies is. These are not just ADL standards, but those of the European Union's own racism watchdog, included in its working definition of anti-Semitism.

This report was written now for two reasons.

First, the anti-Semitic criticism of Israel was most clearly on display during Israel's military campaign in Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009, Operation Cast Lead.

Second, opinion polls conducted over the past year by ADL, the Pew group, and even by the Spanish government show an alarming rise in anti-Semitic attitudes.

ADL is deeply concerned about the mainstreaming of anti-Semitism in Spain, with more public expressions and greater public acceptance. Opinion makers in the media and in politics are crossing the line that separates legitimate criticism of Israeli actions from anti-Semitism and the results are evident. The scale of this problem caused the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain to send an open letter on this topic to all major media.

 http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Semitism_International/discourse-in-spain.htm

 

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he future home of a Jewish fraternity in Tennessee was painted with swastikas.

The Zeta Beta Tau fraternity has not yet moved into the house on fraternity row at the University of Memphis, but the swastikas spray-painted Tuesday were accompanied by the message "welcome to frat row, Jews," according to media reports in Memphis.

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/14/1008501/memphis-zbt-house-painted-with-swastikas

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andals defaced a Holocaust memorial at the Jewish cemetery in a town in southwestern Poland.

According to The Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland, unknown vandals threw white paint over the commemorative plaque affixed to the monument at the cemetery in Klodzko sometime last week.

According to the foundation, this was the latest in a series of incidents in recent weeks at Jewish cemeteries. In Izbica, unknown persons set fire to a large tree at the local Jewish cemetery, and in Leczna, where local volunteers have been working to clean up the cemetery, unknown persons dumped a load of trash on the grounds.

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/18/1008565/polish-holocaust-memorial-vandalized

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Quando l'odio antiebraico è talmente forte da oltrepassare qualunque buon senso. Il tumore al seno è uno dei maggiori problemi di salute per le donne, specie nell'area mediorientale. Sarebbe auspicabile collaborare per migliorare la salute delle donne. Invece si preferisce trattare i medici israeliani come persone non ben accette.

Israeli doctors planning to attend this week's conference sponsored by the breast cancer advocacy group Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which includes meetings with cancer researchers from the United States and several countries in the Middle East, were told at the last minute that they were no longer invited to the conference by order of Egypt's health minister.

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/21/1008635/israeli-doctors-disinvited-from-egypt-confab

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today called on the leading breast cancer awareness advocacy organization, Susan G. Komen For the Cure, to ensure that Israeli breast cancers researchers and activists are permitted to participate in regional programs it is sponsoring in Egypt this month.

The programs, slated to take place October 21-27 in various cities in Egypt, are sponsored by the U.S.-based Susan G. Komen For the Cure under the patronage of First Lady Suzanne Mubarak.

"We find this last minute exclusion of Israeli experts shocking and contrary to the stated purpose of these programs � to promote regional cooperation to highlight breast cancer awareness, research and best treatment practices � and inimical to the ideals and goals of your organization," wrote Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director.  

http://www.adl.org/PresRele/IslME_62/6526_62.htm

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“Threats against Jews have increased steadily in Malmö in recent years and many young Jewish families are choosing to leave the city,” Fredrik Sieradzki of the Jewish Community of Malmö (Judiska Församlingen i Malmö) told The Local.

“Many feel that the community and local politicians have shown a lack of understanding for how the city’s Jewish residents have been marginalized.”

Last year there were 79 crimes against Jewish residents reported to the police in Malmö, roughly double the number reported in 2008, according to the Skånska Dagbladet newspaper.

In addition, Jewish cemeteries and synagogues have repeatedly been defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti, and a chapel at another Jewish burial site in Malmö was firebombed in January of last year.

There are currently an estimated 3,000 Jews living in the south of Sweden, with most residing in Malmö, Helsingborg, and Lund.

About 700 currently belong to the Jewish Community of Malmö, but the group's membership rolls have been dropping steadily in recent years.

“It’s sort of a downward spiral,” Sieradzki told The Local.

When asked to explain why Jewish religious services often require security guards and even police protection, Reepalu said much of the violence directed toward Malmö’s Jewish community come from members of extremist right-wing groups, a theory which baffles Sieradzki.

“I’m not saying we don’t have problems with neo-Nazis, but the threats aren’t as concrete,” he explained.

“More often it’s the far-left that commonly use Jews as a punching bag for their disdain toward the policies of Israel, even if Jews in Malmö have nothing to do with Israeli politics.

“It’s shameful and regrettable that such a powerful politician could be so ignorant about the threats we face.”

In addition to the far-left, Sieradzki said that a “very small segment” of the city’s growing population of Muslim immigrants from Arab countries in the Middle East are also responsible for growing anti-Semitism.

“This is a small group of extremists who have decided to go after Jews wherever they are in the world and regardless of their relationship to Israel,” he said.
  

http://www.thelocal.se/24632/20100127/

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Hassen Chalghoumi è un bravo ragazzo. Ce ne vorrebbero tanti come lui.

The Tunisian-born Chalghoumi, who is a naturalised French citizen and proud of it, told the paper: "Having French nationality means wanting to take part in society, at school, at work. But with a bit of cloth over their faces, what can these women share with us? If they want to wear the veil, they can go to a country where it's the tradition, like Saudi Arabia." 

He was chairing a meeting of the Conference of Imams, a body established in 2009 to promote better relations between France’s faiths, particularly Jews and Muslims, when a mob of 80 men forced their way into the building. There was a brief scuffle between the two groups, ending in a handful of invaders grabbing the microphone. "They started to cry Allah Akbar and God is great," recounted Chalghoumi. "Then they insulted me, my mosque, the Jewish community and the [French] Republic. They left after an hour and a half."

According to a member of the Conference of Imams, the mob condemned Chalghoumi as an apostate and threatened him with "liquidation, this imam of the Jews".

 As for Chalghoumi, he is now under police protection, as is his mosque, and he is promising to press charges against his aggressors. While he has received support from the Christian and Jewish communities throughout France, the reaction from many of his fellow Muslims has been luke-warm.

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/58915,news-comment,news-politics,mob-of-80-muslims-attack-hassen-chalghoumis-mosque-in-paris-suburb-burka

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More than 924 reports of bigoted violence and abuse were received last year by the Jewish Community Security Trust (CST).

The charity, which monitors anti-Semitism in Britain, said the figures marked the worst year since records began in 1984. They included violent street attacks, arson, egg-throwing, racist graffiti, website hacking and hate mail.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100205/tuk-gaza-link-to-rise-in-anti-semitism-dba1618.html

Of the 924 incidents, 124 were rated as violent, the highest annual number the CST has recorded. Three of these involved a threat to life or grievous bodily harm, including an attempt to set fire to a rabbi's house.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE61403V20100205

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Anti-Semitic rhetoric is heard on broadcasts from listeners who call the station, as well as from the station’s own commentators and panelists.

On January 11, 2009, for example, Dr. Krzysztof Kawecki justified the persecution of Jews between the two world wars and claimed, “The boycotting of Jewish stores was necessary for self defense against the alien competition.”

Professor Boguslaw Wolniewicz criticized the nation’s president Lech Kaczynski for participating in a Hanukkah service. “What should we Poles care about Hanukkah,” he said in a broadcast on January 31 last year. “It looked awful for the government to do this.”

On march 27,2006 Michaelkiewicz addressed Holocaust restitution efforts this way in a Radio Maryja broadcast:

“While we are implementing democracy, the Judeans are sneaking up from the back trying to force our government to pay protection money, concealing the fact by calling it compensation.”

My request to interview Father Rydzik in Torun was declined.

 ”You have to understand that the Catholic Church does not want to act against Rydzik and sow divisions within the church,” said Katarzyna Bilok, who has studied the station,” adding that “the church sees benefits from the leadership of Father Rydzik because he is a powerful evangelizer.”

http://www.forward.com/articles/125079/

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Yet at times during the university's early years, blacks and Jews who enrolled at Cornell often found closed doors at fraternities and sororities, added Carol Kammen, Tompkins County historian.

Engst and Kammen were featured speakers at "Part and Apart: Black and Jewish Students at Cornell, 1869-1969," a Jan. 26 lecture at the UJA Federation in New York City, part of the Cornell on the Road series. Using archival photographs, school documents and personal manuscripts from Cornell Library, Engst and Kammen stitched together personal accounts of early Jewish and black students to a capacity crowd of more than 100 alumni and friends.

"There was a good deal of racism and anti-Semitism and a lot of prejudice in the 1930s," said Kammen, "and in that instance, Cornell did not hold to a higher standard as stressed in the Cornell charter of 1865."

"It was difficult to find black students at the university's earliest years," said Kammen. "Many didn't have the academic qualifications, most didn't have the money, and because of Cornell's location, some didn't know it existed." Early on, said Kammen, when Ezra Cornell received a letter asking if a 'slightly colored' student could come to Cornell, he responded, "Send him."

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan10/NYCBlackJews.html

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Members of the Westboro Church, a traveling theater of religious extremists, gathered on Arastradero Road to flay the most unlikely victims: school children already traumatized by the five recent suicides of Gunn-associated students.

"You'll be in front of the train next! God laughs at your calamity!" shouted Margie Phelps, the daughter of Westboro Church founder Fred Phelps, a disbarred lawyer with a craving for publicity and a fixation on hatred of homosexuality.

The Topeka-based group then traveled to Stanford University's Taube Hillel House, where they were greeted by the dancing Stanford Tree mascot, the Stanford Band, several hundred students and a bagpipe player performing a haunting rendition of "Amazing Grace."

It was only 8 a.m., an hour when most college students are still asleep. But word had spread across campus through e-mails from student groups and conversation, and a bold crowd awaited the far-outnumbered church members.

Some students posed for pictures with the visitors, holding signs like one that read "Gay for Fred Phelps."

"I just wanted to come out and show them that being a Christian isn't about hate, it's about love," said Monica Alcazar, a Stanford freshman and Gunn graduate.

 

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14295198

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In 2009, a chapel serving the city's 700-strong Jewish community was set ablaze. Jewish cemeteries were repeatedly desecrated, worshippers were abused on their way home from prayer, and "Hitler" was mockingly chanted in the streets by masked men.

"I never thought I would see this hatred again in my lifetime, not in Sweden anyway," Mrs Popinski told The Sunday Telegraph.

"This new hatred comes from Muslim immigrants. The Jewish people are afraid now."

The future looks so bleak that by one estimate, around 30 Jewish families have already left for Stockholm, England or Israel, and more are preparing to go.

With its young people planning new lives elsewhere, the remaining Jewish households, many of whom are made up of Holocaust survivors and their descendants, fear they will soon be gone altogether. Mrs Popinski, an 86-year-old widow, said she has even encountered hostility when invited to talk about the Holocaust in schools.

"Muslim schoolchildren often ignore me now when I talk about my experiences in the camps," she said. "It is because of what their parents tell them about Jews. The hatreds of the Middle East have come to Malmo. Schools in Muslim areas of the city simply won't invite Holocaust survivors to speak any more."

The city's synagogue has guards and rocket-proof glass in the windows, while the Jewish kindergarten can only be reached through thick steel security doors

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/7278532/Jews-leave-Swedish-city-after-sharp-rise-in-anti-Semitic-hate-crimes.html

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A London university has been condemned for inviting an Islamic preacher with anti-Semitic and homophobic views to give a lecture to students.

Sheikh Quick has denounced the �filth� of Jews and once gave a televised lecture in which he said the Islamic position on homosexuality is �death�.

He added: �Muslims are going to have to take a stand [against homosexuals] and it's not enough to call names.�

 http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23809775-islamic-preacher-who-called-jews-filth-to-speak-at-kings-colleges.do

Usamah has been filmed advocating the killing of gays and Muslims who leave their faith and has described women as “deficient” and “incomplete”.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/02/25/homophobic-and-anti-semitic-preacher-invited-to-london-university/

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Tutta la mia solidarietà all'imam di Drancy.

Dans un communiqué rédigé en début d’après-midi, Hassen Chalghoumi et les responsables du lieu de culte, expliquent avoir pris cette décision car «il n’est pas possible de garantir la sécurité des fidèles».

http://www.leparisien.fr/seine-saint-denis-93/la-mosquee-de-drancy-fermee-09-03-2010-842029.php

Selon Farid Hannache, le conseiller de l'imam, le bureau de l'association a décidé de fermer la mosquée jusqu'à nouvel ordre". Il a précisé que la décision fait suite à l'agression lundi soir du muezzin par des membres du collectif pro-palestinien Cheikh Yacine, qui mène une fronde contre Hassan Chalghoumi, qualifié d'"imam des sionistes".

http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/la-mosquee-de-drancy-fermee-jusqu-a-nouvel-ordre_853947.html

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Il problema persiste, lo avevo già segnalato in passato.

Now the 32-year-old law firm associate feels the welcome for Jews is running out, and he is moving to Israel with his wife and two children in May. He says he knows at least 15 other Jews who are leaving for a similar reason.

That reason, he says, is a rise in hate crimes against Jews in Malmo, and a sense that local authorities have little desire to deal with a problem that has exposed a crack in Sweden's image as a bastion of tolerance and a haven for distressed ethnic groups.

Anti-Semitic crimes in Europe have usually been associated with the far right, but Shneur Kesselman, an Orthodox rabbi, says the threat now comes from Muslims.

"In the past five years I've been here, I think you can count on your hand how many incidents there have been from the extreme right," he said. "In my personal experience, it's 99 percent Muslims."

  Malmo police say that of 115 hate crimes reported in 2009, 52 were anti-Semitic. Bejzat Becirov, the mosque head, estimated there are about 60,000 Muslims in Malmo. But the number of Jews is about 700 and shrinking - it was twice as big two decades ago, according to Fredrik Sieradzki, a spokesman for the Jewish community.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/29/hate-crimes-force-jews-out-of-malmo/

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Nick Bergamini, 22, vice-president of the Carleton University Students’ Association, said he and roommate Mark Klibanov were leaving Le Volt bar on Promenade du Portage at 1:45 a.m. when a group of about 10 men began yelling in English and Arabic that they were Zionists and Jews.

“These people must have been Carleton students because I recognized one of them,” Bergamini said. “I said I love Israel because I support Israel’s right to exist.

“One of them rolled down the window and said: ‘I am the one who hit you, you f-----g Jew,’ although I am not a Jew,” Bergamini said. “Two guys came out of the car, and one of them tried to kick my roommate.

Len Rudner, director of the Ontario chapter of the Canadian Jewish Congress, said being a Jew or Zionist in Canada should not prompt such an attack.

“Maybe we should consider the impact that words can have in accelerating the argument to the point where people feel that this kind of behaviour is acceptable,” Rudner said.

“If you permit a constant invective and demonization of the Jewish state and people who support the Jewish state, some people will feel that this gives them the permission or responsibility to carry out this kind of attack.”

 http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Machete+used+anti+Semitic+attack+Carleton+students/2766537/story.html

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About 30 children and youths, largely of Lebanese, Palestinian and Iranian descent, threw stones at the dancers on Sunday, shouting “Jews out!” daily Berliner Morgenpost reported.

The youths were aged from 10 to 15, the paper reported.

The dance troupe, named Chaverim – Hebrew for “friends” – broke off their performance after one of their members was hit in the leg by a stone and lightly injured.

Charlotte Knoblauch, president of the German Jewish Council, said the incident showed “a new social provocation, which already in the past weeks is clearly visible as it hasn’t been before.”

Hannover Mayor Stephan Weil branded the incident “unacceptable.” The city was meanwhile pursuing charges of incitement and attempted assault. He said at a press conference Wednesday there was “no evidence that the crime was prepared by an organisation or in advance.”

The chairman of the Jewish community in Lower Saxony, Michael Fürst, said however that “the children acted at least with the approval, if not even the direction of their parents.”

http://www.thelocal.de/society/20100624-28069.html

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The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States remained at a "sustained and troubling" level in 2009, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which compiles annually a statistical audit of anti-Semitic assaults, vandalism and harassment.

 

The 2009 ADL Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, released today, counted a total of 1,211 incidents of vandalism, harassment and physical assaults against Jewish individuals, property, and community institutions across the U.S.

Using a newly revised methodology for reporting and tracking incidents, the ADL Audit identified 29 physical assaults on Jewish individuals, 760 incidents of anti-Semitic harassment and threats, and 422 cases of anti-Semitic vandalism during the 2009 calendar year.

 

"America is not immune to anti-Semitism, and 2009 was no different in this regard than in any other year," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director.  "It is a sobering reality that as Jews have become more accepted in society, there remains a consistent hatred of Jews among too many.  The fact that Jews continue to be singled out for acts of hate on an average of three times per day in this country is a disturbing reality that we have to confront."

 

"The Audit is one snapshot of anti-Semitism in America," added Robert G. Sugarman, ADL National Chair.  "While it is by no means a complete picture of the problem, it presents us with important statistical data to help us identify and to quantify the wheres, whys and hows of anti-Semitism in society."

 

http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASUS_12/5814_12.htm

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Trois jours après, c'est une jeune femme de confession juive qui portait plainte après avoir été agressée dans une grande surface de Toulouse. La victime affirme avoir été prise à partie par deux adolescents qui lui reprochaient d'acheter de la nourriture pendant le jeûne. La jeune femme aurait alors fait valoir qu'elle était de confession juive, ce qui n'aurait fait que redoubler la colère de ses agresseurs, lesquels, après l'avoir traitée de "sale juive", l'auraient frappée à la tête, la faisant lourdement chuter. Un vigile a assisté à la scène sans intervenir. Interrogé par les enquêteurs sur les raisons de sa passivité, l'homme a expliqué qu'il respectait le ramadan et qu'il était donc pressé de partir pour pouvoir s'alimenter, dès le coucher du soleil.

http://www.lepoint.fr/societe/agresse-parce-qu-il-n-a-pas-respecte-le-ramadan-23-08-2010-1227824_23.php

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