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"We want to warn Antwerp's Jewish community in its entirety to be on its guard. The community's support for Israel is no secret," Ahmed Azzuz, head of the AEL in Belgium told the Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique. "The AEL calls on the Jewish community in Antwerp to cease its support of, and distance itself from, the state of Israel. If not, attacks in Antwerp are almost unpreventable," Azzuz had earlier told the Belgian Flemish magazine Knack, adding, "Every year, 200 Belgian-Israeli reservists leave for Israel to kill innocent civilians." According to an Israel Channel 1 television report, the Jewish...

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A fire destroyed library books and damaged a library computer system at the St. Laurent branch of United Talmud Torahs (UTT) elementary school on the eve of the Passover holiday (April 5), and police found anti-Semitic notes, written in French taped to the school's walls. Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin confirmed that the school, which was closed at the time of the blaze Monday, was firebombed. In a statement, Martin said, "the assault was not directed against the Jewish community of Montreal. It is an act of violence directed at all Canadians and one to which we must collectively respond."...

EU 'covered up' attacks on Jews by young Muslims By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels (Filed: 01/04/2004) Jewish leaders accused the European Union yesterday of covering up the true scale of anti-Semitic violence carried out by Muslim youths, reigniting a controversy over Europe's failure to confront Islamic extremism at home. A study released by the EU's racism and xenophobia monitoring centre astounded experts by concluding that the wave of anti-Jewish persecution over the last two years stemmed from neo-Nazi or other racist groups. "The largest group of the perpetrators of anti-Semitic activities appears to be young, disaffected white Europeans," said a...

Internet users who post messages on a CBC Web site have launched complaints that the Crown corporation routinely removes the words "Jew," "Jewish" and "Israel" from network chat rooms devoted to online discussion of news events. Meanwhile, vulgar expletives frequently appear on the same CBC discussion Web site. So do the words "Nazi" and "rabid Zionist." Even the incendiary phrase "red-neck greedy selfish Alberto-centric money grubbing pig" passes muster with CBC censors, who use special software to seek and destroy postings containing words they have deemed "inappropriate." People wishing to discuss Israel and issues that relate to the Jewish culture...

A recent Jewish Chronicle survey revealed a troubling rise in anti-Jewish prejudice in Britain. Nearly one in five people polled believed the Holocaust was "exaggerated." A similar number believed Jews have too much influence and do not want a Jewish prime minister. The Community Security Trust (CST) has also just released its own figures on anti-Semitic incidents in 2003, which are equally disturbing. They show a rise of 15% in assaults and an increase of 31% in damage to Jewish property since the previous year. The total number of anti-Jewish acts (375) was the second highest since record keeping began...

Swastika Artwork Removed From Exhibit Fri Feb 20, 5:05 PM ET OSLO, Norway - A painting that featured the words Israel and the United States — and replaced each S with a Nazi swastika — was removed from an art exhibit Friday after it infuriated a Holocaust survivor and other Jews. Andreas Engelstad, owner of the Galleri A Minor in Oslo, said the Israeli Embassy demanded that the painting be removed, but that it was the reaction of other Jews that prompted his decision to withdraw it. "I took it down not because of the embassy, but out of respect...

THE HAGUE - The mayor of The Hague, W.J. (Wim) Deetman, believes Israel's embassy here is trying to undermine arrangements that have been instituted to maintain public order, in anticipation of Monday's International Court of Justice discussion about the West Bank separation fence. The embassy, Deetman claims, has jeopardized these arrangements by relaying pictures of 927 terror victims to the "Christians for Israel" organization. The mayor has tried to stop the Christian group from holding a quiet march in The Hague on Monday. The organization plans to have vigil participants hold the portraits of the terror victims provided by the...

Prominent Jews in Britain are being targeted in a wave of anti-Semitic harassment by far-right and Islamic fundamentalist organizations. The home of Lord Triesman, the former general secretary of the Labor Party, has been attacked by Combat 18, the neo-Nazi group. Uri Geller, the Israeli television personality, and Barbara Roche, the former Labor minister, have been the victims of graffiti and hate mail. The incidents have emerged as police prepare to release figures this week showing that Britain saw a significant rise in anti-Semitic incidents in 2003. Mike Whine, the security spokesman for the Board of Deputies of British Jews,...

Vandals defiled a Jewish cemetery in St. Petersburg, painting swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti on about 50 graves, Jewish leaders said Monday. Mark Grubarg, head of the St. Petersburg Jewish Religious Community, said the vandalism occurred Saturday night at the cemetery, one of the largest Jewish burial places in Russia's former imperial capital. "We are in shock," he said. The cemetery had suffered some isolated cases of vandalism before, Grubarg said, but nothing approaching the scale of the latest incident. "Any nation is sensitive to acts of vandalism at cemeteries but Jews are particularly sensitive, especially when it concerns fascist signs,"...

Brussels – The U.S. envoy to the European Union said on Thursday that anti-Semitism in Europe was nearly as bad as it was in the 1930s, a decade which saw the rise of German Nazism and led to the extermination of six millions Jews. The remarks by Ambassador Rockwell Schnabel are likely to rekindle controversy over charges that anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe, which prompted the European Union's executive to schedule a major seminar on the issue next week. Speaking at a dinner given by the American Jewish Committee to launch a Transatlantic Institute in Brussels, Schnabel said...

Opportunity finally presented itself to read noted Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel's "Night," after hearing it mentioned by a well known Evangelical Pastor in a radio broadcast sermon. It is one of the more well known recorded accounts of that long nightmare, a short but graphic and powerful postmortem of one of the more infamous abominations to occur in the "enlightened," progressive twentieth century. I will leave the hideous details to the reader shrewd enough to take the time to read it, to go back these, what, sixty short years to that time? I was a little startled recently, while getting...

STRASBOURG, France, Jan 20 (AFP) - A minibus used to transport children to a Jewish school in the eastern French city of Strasbourg was set alight Sunday night, police said Tuesday. A few hours earlier assailants hurled stones at the door of a synagogue in the same city. "Several factors make me think these are anti-Semitic acts," said Pierre Levy, regional delegate of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF). "What is worrying is that the incidents tend to happen after demonstrations," he said. On Saturday around 20,000 Muslims demonstrated around France against a proposed ban on the...

<p>PARIS - From his synagogue in Ris-Orangis, a small town on the outskirts of Paris, Rabbi Michel Serfaty, a Moroccan-born father of five, has always advocated tolerance and worked with his Muslim and Christian neighbors to foster mutual respect.</p> <p>But last October, Serfaty came face to face with an ugly new reality: what some believe is part of a new wave of anti-Semitism on the streets of Europe.</p>

Dec. 10, 2003 Jewish cemetery at Auschwitz vandalized By JPOST.COM STAFF Vandals wrecked sixteen tombstones at the Jewish cemetery at Auschwitz, the local Jewish cultural center said on Wednesday. Days before, someone painted two large swastikas on the cemetery's wall, which municipal police quickly removed, the center told Reuters news agency. "It's difficult to say who did it. This cemetery is frequented usually once or twice a day. We noticed the desecration on Wednesday," said Artur Szyndler of the Jewish Centre in Oswiecim, known as Auschwitz in German. The cemetery was established more than two centuries ago by the then-vibrant...

LILLE, France, Dec 5 (AFP) - Two teenage schoolgirls in France are to be taken to court after a senior Jewish leader complained they had aimed racist insults at him in the street, court officials and the rabbi told AFP Friday. The girls, aged 14 and 15, allegedly said "die, dirty Jew" on Tuesday when they passed him, the rabbi, Elie Dahan, who is the Jewish religious leader for the northern city of Lille, said. Dahan lodged a police report and demanded the girls be taken to court. "They refused to apologise to me. Given the seriousness of what happened,...

<p>In the wake of September 11, people of good will were naturally concerned that innocent Muslims might be scapegoated.</p> <p>But in Europe, something else happened: anti-Semitism surged.</p> <p>For example, in recent days a Jewish school near Paris was firebombed and two synagogues in Istanbul were attacked by terrorist truck bombers. A member of the German Parliament suggested the Jews bear collective responsibility for atrocities committed by communists during the Russian Revolution of 1917. Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis said of Israel: "This small nation is the root of evil."</p>

A Jewish pupil attending a highly rated Paris secondary school was repeatedly beaten up by Muslim fellow pupils. The headmaster filed a lawsuit against the two aggressors. The 11-year old Jewish boy, whose name was not released, was repetitively verbally abused and beaten by two Muslim pupils of the same class. "We'll finish Hitler's job," they reportedly yelled at him. The headmaster moved the Jewish boy to another class within the 1,800 pupils secondary school. The victim is currently under tranquilizers, according to the French weekly "Le Journal du Dimanche". The Lyc e Montaigne is located in one of the...

KISSIMMEE -- Some anti-hate groups are outraged that a Saudi cleric who called on God to "terminate" the Jews and urged Muslims to shun peace with Israel is the invited keynote speaker at an Islamic conference scheduled this month in Osceola County. A newly formed group, the Universal Heritage Foundation, is sponsoring the conference and an appearance by Shaikh Abdur-Rahman Al-Sudais. Foundation leaders say the conference could bring thousands of people to 31 acres on U.S. Highway 192 near Florida's Turnpike, site of a former culinary school that most recently housed a homeless shelter.

<p>December 1, 2003 -- A wave of anti-Semitic bias incidents were reported in Brooklyn and Queens over the holiday weekend, just days after a series of tire slashings in predominantly Hasidic Borough Park. Police said they're investigating at least seven bias incidents, all of them apparently unrelated.</p>