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RECENT INCIDENTS of Anti-Semitism

United States, September 13:

State Department envoy announces new interagency process to combat anti-Semitism

Poland, September 12:

Polish judge calls Jews “despicable, filthy nation

Australia, September 11:

Australian Senator describes attempts to question an MPs eligibility to sit in Parliament disgraceful and anti-Semitic

Canada, September 11:

University of Toronto nixes lecture by Palestinian man with alleged ties to terrorist group

United Kingdom, September 10:

Bristol University criticized for lukewarm response to professor claiming zionism is one of the five pillars of anti-Semitism

GLOBAL INCIDENTS – a Year in Review – 2019

January

Australia

• Melbourne: Neo-Nazi extremists posted swastikas outside of a nursing home that houses many Holocaust survivors.

Bulgaria

• Sofia: A man threw stones, breaking the windows of the Great Prayer Hall at the Sofia Central Synagogue.

United Kingdom

• Hertfordshire: A number of locations in the area were defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti including the words “Jew Ghetto” along with a Star of David.
• London: Thieves stole Jewish prayer items (tefillin and a tallit) from a car and dumped them in a nearby pond.

France

• Sarcelles: A car belonging to a Jewish family was broken into, filled with trash and a mezuzah glued to the windshield.

Germany

• German Jewish leader and Holocaust survivor Charlotte Knobloch was threatened by supporters of the far-right German political party AfD following her speech about Holocaust victims to German parliament.

Peru

• The Governor of the Junin region used anti-Semitic statements alleging Jewish control of politics, the economy and finances in Peru.

Poland

• Auschwitz: Polish far-right extremist leader, Piotr Rybak, who had been convicted multiple times for anti-Semitic acts and statements, led a march of extremists at Auschwitz on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, proclaiming “It’s time to fight against Jewry and free Poland from them.”

Ukraine

• Drogobych: Rocks were thrown through the windows of the Great Choral Synagogue.

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February

Argentina

• San Luis: Nine graves in a Jewish cemetery in western Argentina were desecrated with Nazi symbols.

Australia

• Sydney: A mural at famed Bondi Beach was defaced with 20 swastikas.

France

• Montrouge: A Jewish school in southern Paris received a letter with anti-Semitic messages, including “France is the base for Zionism in Europe” and “If Adolf Hitler had exterminated all the Jews, the Arab countries would live in peace.”

Paris

• Writer and philosopher Alain Finkielkrautwas verbally assaulted by Yellow Vest protestors who shouted “Dirty Jew,” “dirty Zionist shit,” and “go back to Tel Aviv.”
• “Juden” was spray-painted on a Bagelstein’s café during a Yellow Vest demonstration.
• Quatzenheim: Vandals spray-painted swastikas and neo-Nazi graffiti on nearly 100 graves at a Jewish cemetery in this village near the city of Strasbourg.
• Saint-Genevieve-des-Bois: Two trees planted in memory of IlanHalimi, the 23-year-old Jewish man abducted and killed over a decade ago by a gang of Islamist thugs, were chopped down just before the anniversary of his death.
• Sarcelles: A Jewish man wearing a kippah was attacked with stones and tear gas by a gang of young men. He had to be transported to the hospital by ambulance.

Oman

• A number of virulently anti-Semitic titles were featured for sale at Oman’s annual state-run book fair

United Kingdom

• London: A 69-year-old Jewish man walking with a cane was brutally beaten, after a man walked up to him and asked if he was Jewish

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March

Argentina

• Buenos Aires: Graffiti reading “Genocidal Israel” was painted in the “Pasteur-AMIA” subway station near the AMIA Jewish community building. The graffiti was spray-painted in one of the memorial walls at the subway station commemorating the victims of the 1994 terrorist attack.

Belgium

• Aalst: A carnival float featured caricatures of Orthodox Jews with money and rats and anti-Semitic songs.

France

• Graffiti calling for the murder of Jewish children was found on a bench of a playground in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.
• A woman was verbally assaulted by an individual in the Paris metro who said, “Jews control the world. You are evil.”
• Strasbourg: A memorial marking the site of the former synagogue of Strasbourg, dynamited by the Nazis in 1941, was vandalized

Finland

• A 27-year-old man accosted Rabbi Shmuel Kot and his two children while they were walking to synagogue, shouting “Sieg Heil” and “Heil Hitler” at them.

Germany

• Chemnitz: Street signs near the synagogue, commemorating Rabbi Hugo Fuchs, were torn down and destroyed

Germany

• Chemnitz: Street signs near the synagogue, commemorating Rabbi Hugo Fuchs, were torn down and destroyed

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April

Canada

• Ontario: A student posted a sign in a school hallway alleging that Israel harvests Palestinian’s organs for human testing. The Peel District School Board has, since, issued an apology for not removing the poster sooner.
• Vaughan: Anti-Semitic graffiti with the phrases “watch yourself” and ” we watch” along with a swastika was spray-painted on the front of a home. Police confirmed the hate crimes unit is investigating.

England

• Borehamwood: A 4-page pamphlet referencing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories like that of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a New World Order and the Rothschild family was posted on the doors of homes throughout the community
• Stamford Hill: Disturbing footage from London shows an Orthodox Jew being chased by a man with a bat. This is just one of multiple incidents that have occurred in this community in the past few months.

France

• Paris: Two French students filmed themselves urinating on the property of a Jewish student association, The Union of Jewish Students in France (UEJF).

Germany

• Dortmund: Towards the end of a dream trip to the BVB Stadium in Germany, where four Israeli children – who all hail from economically disadvantaged families in Haifa – traveled to see UEFA Champion League regulars Borussua Dortmund play, the children were humiliated and discriminated against. As soon as the staff took note of their Israeli passports, they immediately became aggressive and angry, extended certain courtesies to other passengers that were not made available to those who were Israeli and were overall extremely discriminatory towards the Israeli group

Kenya

• Nairobi: A rabbi and his wife were attacked by intruders during a robbery at a Jewish community center and synagogue. They hurled anti-Semitic insults at them and stole computers, passports, food and religious items from the center

Poland

• Pruchnik: Residents in this southeastern Polish town had an effigy made to look like a stereotypical jew that was beaten by children and adults alike, hung and burned as part of an Easter ritual

Romania

• Husi: A local cemetery was vandalized – 73 headstones were knocked over and smashed. The scope of the devastation is one of the worst of its kind reported in Europe this year.

Russia

• Moscow: On the eve of Passover a fire was set at the largest yeshiva in Moscow, Torat Chaim Yeshiva, and swastikas were sprayed on the seminary

Turkey

• Izmir: An unidentified attacker threw a firebomb at the Beth Israel Synagogue. He told police that he attacked the synagogue to protest Israel

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May

Austria

• Vienna: The exhibition, by German-Italian photographer Luigi Toscano, of photos of Holocaust survivors exhibited on a central Vienna street have been defaced with swastikas. Previously, these same photos were vandalized with knives

Netherlands

• Amsterdam: A Jewish man, only identified in Dutch media as Joram, was assaulted on the Netherlands’ national holiday of liberation from the Nazis. 50 revelers sang about gassing Jews while pushing, kicking and verbally assaulting Joram with anti-Semitic hate speech.

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June

Argentina

• Rosario: Three men harassed and beat Rabbi Shlomo Tawil of Chabad emmisary, while shouting anti-Semitic epithets and trampling his hat. This incident has been characterized as anti-Semitic since the attackers appeared to have approached the Rabbi with the sole intent to harm him

The Czech Republic

• Prague: Vandals defiled the Valediction Memorial to Jewish children who escaped the Holocaust at Prague’s main railway station. The train used to transfer 669 children from the Czech capital to Britain was left with a large crack across the central windowpane of the train memorial

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July

Canada

• Canada’s latest hate crimes report reveals that, despite a steady drop in hate crimes, antisemitic incidents hold steady.
• According to the report, religion continues to be the number one cause of these crimes

Poland

• Tarnow: A cemetery was vandalized a month after rededication with “Jews eat children. Jadowniki eats Jews” painted on the outer wall

Turkey

• Istanbul: A Turkish Islamist newspaper has published an anti-Semitic report claiming that Jews living in the Beykoz district have taken control of the neighborhood, training dogs to bite Muslim inhabitants. Jewish commentators have said that the rhetoric has contributed to anti-Semitism.