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Monday January 23, 2012
Anti-Semitism • Germany • Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog:
Anti-Jewish feeling is “significantly” entrenched in German society, according to a report by experts appointed by Germany’s parliament. They say the internet has played a key role in spreading Holocaust denial, far-right and extreme Islamist views.
Wednesday November 30, 2011
Anti-Semitism • Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog • White Supremacy:
Notorious serial hater David Duke has been arrested in Germany and is facing deportation. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit that tracks hate groups and fights discrimination cases, describes Duke as the “most recognizable figure of the American radical right, a neo-Nazi, longtime Klan leader and now international spokesman for Holocaust denial.”
Friday December 17, 2010
Anti-Semitism • Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog: Anti-Semitism has gone mainstream, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, named for the famous Nazi Hunter.
Today, the center releases its Top Ten list of such offensive speech by politicians, Hollywood figures, journalists, historians, and everyday people on social media such as Facebook pages.
Today, the center releases its Top Ten list of such offensive speech by politicians, Hollywood figures, journalists, historians, and everyday people on social media such as Facebook pages.
Monday October 25, 2010
Anti-Semitism • Gangs • Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog: A Paris court is hearing the appeal of 18 people convicted in the 2006 kidnapping, torture and murder of a young French Jew.
One who’s not appealing is Gang leader Youssouf Fofana, who chose not to appeal his conviction and life sentence.
‘People’ is a big word for a gang of criminals who refer to themselves — appropriately — as Barbarians.
One who’s not appealing is Gang leader Youssouf Fofana, who chose not to appeal his conviction and life sentence.
‘People’ is a big word for a gang of criminals who refer to themselves — appropriately — as Barbarians.
Wednesday June 30, 2010
Anti-Semitism • Hate Groups • Nation of Islam:
Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan has written the leaders of more than a dozen major U.S. Jewish groups and denominations seeking “repair of my people from the damage” he claims Jews have caused blacks for centuries. The hate-monger is notorious for his racist and anti-Semitic speech.
Thursday June 24, 2010
Anti-Semitism • Hate Groups • Islam • RNB's Religion News Blog: A Jewish dance group was attacked with stones by a group of children and teenagers during a performance at a street festival in the Germany city of Hannover, police said Thursday.
The teenagers also used a megaphone to shout anti-Semitic slurs during the Saturday afternoon attack, Hannover police spokesman Thorsten Schiewe said.
Schiewe said there were several Muslim immigrant youths among the attackers.
The teenagers also used a megaphone to shout anti-Semitic slurs during the Saturday afternoon attack, Hannover police spokesman Thorsten Schiewe said.
Schiewe said there were several Muslim immigrant youths among the attackers.
Tuesday June 22, 2010
Anti-Semitism:
The acting mayor of Amsterdam, Lodewijk Asscher, wants to look into the possibility of using so-called ‘decoy Jews’ to combat anti-Semitic violence. The approach is in line with Asscher’s intention to look for unorthodox measures in the city’s fight against intolerance and violence toward gays and Jews, his spokesman said Monday.
Anti-Semitism • RNB's Religion News Blog:
A bomb blast rocked a synagogue in Russia on Monday, drawing condemnation from the country's Jewish community, who linked the attack with the upcoming anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion of Russia.
Monday June 21, 2010
Anti-Semitism • RNB's Religion News Blog: The Spanish dictator, General Francisco Franco, whose apologists usually claim that he protected Jews, ordered his officials to draw up a list of some 6,000 Jews living in Spain and include them in a secret Jewish archive.
Monday December 28, 2009
Hate Groups:
American neo-Nazis are using deceptive free music downloads to lure youth and college students into anti-Semitism, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of the B’Nai Brith organization. It said the new tactics specifically target high school and college students through advertisements in school newspapers. Israel’s Arutz Sheva reports that a man who operates a racist web site tricked school papers “by changing his site when he placed ads offering music by independent artists, but after the ads were published, he returned the site to its usual white supremacist format.”
Tuesday February 3, 2009
Catholic Church • Holocaust:
A Vatican cardinal has said that the decision to rehabilitate an ultra-conservative bishop who denies that any Jews were killed in the Holocaust was “badly mishandled”, amid an escalating internal row over the decision.The remarks by Cardinal Kasper, head of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, follow dismay expressed by German bishops over a “loss of faith in the Pope” because of the row over the lifting of Bishop Williamson and three other ultra-traditionalists.
Monday October 6, 2008
Anti-Semitism • Hate Groups:
The US financial crisis has provoked an outpouring of anti-Semitism on the Internet, with Jews being blamed for the debacle on Wall Street, a monitoring group said on Thursday.Blogs devoted to conspiracy theories as well as white supremacist and neo-Nazi websites have sought to exploit events on Wall Street and the subprime crisis to support their agendas, ADL said.
Thursday September 18, 2008
Surveys:
The Washington-based Pew Research Center’s global attitude survey found that 46 percent of Spanish, 36 percent of Poles and 34 percent of Russians viewed Jews unfavorably, while the same was true for 25 percent of Germans, and 20 percent of French.Opinions of Muslims are also worsening compared with previous years, with 52 percent in Spain, 50 percent in Germany, 46 percent in Poland and 38 percent in France having negative attitudes toward them.
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