AUG–Mid- Prepared by the European Jewish Congress, the Secretariat of the European Parliament Working Group on Antisemitism. OCT 2015 TABLE OF CONTENT AUSTRIA .................................................................................................................................... 3 Racist epithets daubed on gravestones at Jewish and Muslim cemeteries .................................... 3 Austrian man jailed for antisemitic Facebook post ..................................................................... 3 BELGIUM ................................................................................................................................... 3 REPORT: Antisemitism in Belgium “non-existent” ............................................................... 3 Nazi chants at Belgian football game ......................................................................................... 4 CZECH REPUBLIC ................................................................................................................... 4 Gravestones toppled at a Jewish cemetery .................................................................................. 4 FRANCE ...................................................................................................................................... 4 Man with knife attacks three Jews in Marseille .......................................................................... 4 Assault on French Jewish academic follows antisemitic threats .................................................. 4 French school makes Jewish and Muslim pupils wear red and yellow discs ................................ 5 Man threatens soldiers guarding Jewish school in France ........................................................... 5 Memorial plaque to Holocaust victims defaced in French town .................................................. 6 GERMANY ................................................................................................................................. 6 REPORT: Attacks on German Jews at five-year high ............................................................. 6 Four arrested over Nazi salute at refugee home in Germany ....................................................... 7 Antisemitic slogans scrawled on Berlin Wall remnant ................................................................ 7 GREECE ..................................................................................................................................... 8 Athens Jewish cemetery vandalized ........................................................................................... 8 Greek official blames Germans and Jews for prescription drug woes .......................................... 8 ITALY ......................................................................................................................................... 9 Rome incurs the wrath of Jewish rosary bead sellers .................................................................. 9 IRELAND .................................................................................................................................... 9 Irish Jews slam property developer's Nazi reference ................................................................... 9 ROMANIA ................................................................................................................................ 10 POLL: 11% of Romanians hold negative views about Jews .................................................. 10 SPAIN ........................................................................................................................................ 10 Spanish public radio programme links Jews and Satanism........................................................ 10 SWEDEN ....................................................................................................................................... Protesters in Malmo chant Death to the Jews............................................................................ 11 THE NETHERLANDS ............................................................................................................. 11 Johan Cruyff subjected to antisemitic abuse at Dutch football match ........................................ 11 Elderly Dutch Jewish couple assaulted ..................................................................................... 12 Page 1 of 16 UNITED KINGDOM ................................................................................................................ 12 REPORT: Hate crimes against Jews and Muslims soar in London ........................................ 12 REPORT: Jews have lowest rate of unemployment in Britain............................................... 13 Protesters harass Jews with antisemitic abuse outside British party conference ......................... 13 Teenager seriously injured in antisemitic attack in Manchester................................................. 13 UK TV reality show removes star who praised Hitler ............................................................... 13 Vandals drape raw meat on London Jewish war memorial ....................................................... 14 Irish MP's expense claim leads to Antisemitism ....................................................................... 14 Edinburgh fringe artist performs quenelle ................................................................................ 15 Swastika and antisemitic graffiti daubed on London Jewish school .......................................... 15 MP who challenged system receives antisemitic abuse ............................................................. 16 Times editor apologises for antisemitic comments ................................................................... 16 Scottish man receives jail sentence for sending Jewish mother Nazi flag photo ........................ 16 Page 2 of 16 EXAMPLES OF ANTISEMITIC INCIDENTS AUGUST – Mid-OCTOBER 2015 AUSTRIA Racist epithets daubed on gravestones at Jewish and Muslim cemeteries Thursday, October 22, 2015 - Jewish and Muslim cemeteries in the Austrian Alps were defaced with Nazi insignia and xenophobic slogans. The incidents occurred at the Jewish cemetery in Hohenems and at the Muslim cemetery in Altach, near the country’s border with Switzerland. Gravestones and buildings at the two sites were defaced. Click here to read the full article in St. Galle Tagblatt * * * Austrian man jailed for antisemitic Facebook post Friday, August 28, 2015 - A 28-year-old Austrian man called for Jews to be gassed in a Facebook post. He is said to have written: “Death to the Jews, I would gas them”, “Hitler showed the world that he was right, Sieg Heil!” A second defendant, a 26-year-old man commented on the post with the words “Sieg Heil! Adolf Hitler”. Click here to read the full article in The Local BELGIUM REPORT: Antisemitism in Belgium “non-existent” Monday, August 31, 2015 - Belgium’s Movement Against Racism, Antisemitism and Xenophobia (MRAX) has noted a large rise in anti-Arab and Islamophobic attacks in 2014 and 2015 according to a report in the Le Soir daily. MRAX also noted a rise in “anti-white, anti-Roma and anti- Belgian” incidents. In a year where the Belgian Jewish community recorded a sharp increase in antisemitic incidents, this fact seemed to have totally missed the MRAX radar. Click here to read the full article in the RTL Page 3 of 16 * * * Nazi chants at Belgian football game Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - A group of supporters from leading Belgian football club KRC Genk chanted Nazi slogans during a match against Anderlecht in Brussels. The chants made reference to the SS, Jews and gas chambers. Click here to read the full article in SoFoot.com CZECH REPUBLIC Gravestones toppled at a Jewish cemetery Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - 20 tombstones were knocked over at a Jewish cemetery in a southern Czech town. The vandalism discovered occurred in Safov, about 120 miles southeast of Prague, the local media reported. Click here to read the full article in Times of Israel FRANCE Man with knife attacks three Jews in Marseille Monday, October 26, 2015 - A rabbi and two Jewish worshipers were attacked by a man armed with a knife near a synagogue in Marseille, in southern France. One of those attacked was seriously wounded after being stabbed in the stomach. Local police arrested the attacker, who was drunk at the time. He was heard to shout antisemitic statements during the attack. The three men were walking to the morning's prayer service when a man attacked them with a knife, all the while yelling antisemitic remarks. A second congregant rushed to intervene and was stabbed in the process. The first two are believed to have avoided any physical harm. The wounded victim is a woman in her fifties. She was stabbed twice in the stomach and badly wounded, but doctors said that her injuries were not life-threatening. Click here to read the full article in Le Parisien * * * Assault on French Jewish academic follows antisemitic threats Wednesday, October 14, 2015 - A French-Jewish university director, who has been the subject of an antisemitic campaign of intimidation, was assaulted outside his home near Paris. An unidentified individual attacked Samuel Mayol, the director of the Technical University Page 4 of 16 Institution, or IUT, while Mayol was walking his dog in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis, the Tribune Juive weekly reported. The assailant bashed Mayol’s head three times against a wall, causing him concussion and multiple