Jewish kindergarten children were attacked Sunday in Antwerp by a group of Muslim teens.
By JTA
Four unidentified Arab men savagely beat a French Jew in a Paris Metro train, a watchdog organization reported. The attack happened Sunday as the train was traveling from Nogent Sur Marne to Gare de Lyon, according to the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA. Two of the attackers held down the 28-year-old victim, […]
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An alleged perpetrator of a brutal anti-Semitic attack in suburban Sydney pleaded not guilty. Spartaco Marciano Di Bella, 23, appeared in court Tuesday and was charged with affray — fighting in a public place that disturbs the peace. His bail was continued until Jan. 13, when the magistrate ordered the next hearing. Di Bella, who […]
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A fourth man was charged in an alleged anti-Semitic attack on five religious Jews in Sydney. The 26-year-old appeared in court on Tuesday and was denied bail after being arrested the previous day. Among the charges are possessing a knife in a public place and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He and three others are […]
The question is whether to charge the attackers of the Antwerp police. Anti-Semites attacked a woman and break her nose. As an ambulance took her to the hospital, police laughed with the attackers.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
When Jews vandalize mosques and monasteries, they are called ”price tag” attacks for government malign neglect of Jewish rights. When anti-Semites attack synagogues, it is not even reported.
Neither robbery, drugs, assault nor weapons can keep a man in jail and stop his appointed rounds of setting fire to mezuzahs containing verses from the Torah. New York police are on the prowl for Rubin Ublies, suspected of torching 11 mezuzahs in a Williamsburg apartment building on Monday, Holocaust Remembrance Day. He also is […]
Anti-Semitic vandals torched more than 10 mezuzahs on the doorposts in the Williamsburg district of Brooklyn apartments Monday, Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is not known if the attack was carried by an individual or a group. The attacks took place on at least 10 different floors. New York police are considering the arson as an […]
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Facebook has removed a page featuring anti-Jewish content, including a photo of murdered Jews in a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen with the headline "Lazy Jews." In response to a formal complaint by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Mia Garlicky, Face book’s Sydney-based manager of communications and policy, confirmed Saturday that the hate page was […]
Vandals painted swastikas and the word “skinhead” on an elementary school baseball field in metropolitan Los Angeles, according to school officials. Orange County’s Kaiser Elementary School Principal Deborah Granger told the Los Angeles Times that school staff saw the hate messages when they returned to school on Monday. Swastikas were also were painted on trash […]
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A man who stabbed an Orthodox Jew in Geneva was found unfit to stand trial in Switzerland because of his clinical paranoia and “irrational fear of an international conspiracy.” A court in Geneva earlier this month found that the 22-year-old man, who was not named, was too “mentally ill” to stand trial for stabbing and […]
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An Algerian immigrant who admitted to planning to blow up synagogues in New York City was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Ahmed Ferhani, 28, was the first person convicted under a state terror statute that went into effect following the 9/11 attacks. He was sentenced last Friday. Ferhani could have been sentenced to up […]
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Three men who accosted a French Jewish teenager in a suburban Paris subway said they would do to him “what Mohammed Merah did.” According to a report on the incident by the National Bureau of Vigilance against Anti-Semitism, a non-governmental organization known locally by the French acronym BNVCA, the 17-year-old Kippa-clad male was threatened in […]
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A New Zealand man who admitted to desecrating Jewish graves with anti-Semitic graffiti at a historic cemetery in Auckland avoided prison because he has established bonds with the Jewish community. Robert Moulden, 19, was sentenced by Judge Russell Collins in Auckland District Court Wednesday to 320 hours of community service work. He was also ordered […]
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Fans of the British soccer team the Tottenham Spurs were targeted by an apparent anti-Semitic attack at a pub in Lyon, France. The Spurs traditionally have had a large Jewish support base in London, which is sometimes referred to as the "Yid Army." Some 50 attackers entered the Smoking Dog on Wednesday night making a […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Police arrest everyone involved in the anti-Semitic attack in Jerusalem.