EXAMPLES OF ANTISEMITIC INCIDENTS APRIL – JULY 2015 This document presents the major reported Antisemitic incidents during this period.

Prepared by the European Jewish Congress, the Secretariat of the European Parliament Working Group on

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BELGIUM ...... 3 . Former Belgian MP sentenced for ...... 3 . Islamic State supporters hack Belgian Jewish website ...... 3 . public order: officer faces the sack for Antisemitic Facebook post ...... 4 CROATIA ...... 4  REPORT: Far-right surges in Croatia ...... 4 . Swastika on pitch at match in Croatia...... 4 CZECH REPUBLIC ...... 5  REPORT: Sharp increase in threats and harassment of Czech ...... 5 DENMARK ...... 5 . Copenhagen church vandalised ahead of rabbi's lecture ...... 5 FRANCE ...... 6 . French terror suspect allegedly involved in attack on Jewish teen ...... 6 . Serial Holocaust denier goes online ...... 6 . Anti-Semitic slogans scrawled on monument in Alsace...... 6 . Dieudonné fined for distorting French Jewish singer's work ...... 7 . Former French MP calls for boycott of kosher leaf pastry ...... 7 . French far-Rightist investigated for comments against Klarsfeld couple ...... 7 . Former French candidate receives two-year electoral ban for anti-Semitic comments ...... 7 . French police investigating attack on man outside synagogue near Paris ...... 7 GERMANY ...... 8  REPORT: Huge rise in anti-Semitic crimes in Germany ...... 8  REPORT: Anti-Semitism up 25% in Germany ...... 8 . Vandals deface Jewish history exhibit in Munich ...... 8 . Berlin's new Jewish conductor met by anti-Semitism in German press ...... 8 GREECE ...... 9 . Greek MP tries to apologise for Holocaust trivialisation - and fails ...... 9 . Greek Holocaust memorial vandalized two weeks after dedication ...... 9 . Athens memorial to child Holocaust victims vandalised ...... 10 HUNGARY ...... 10 . Hungarian official fired for anti-Semitic comments...... 10 . Israeli diplomat in Hungary receives anti-Semitic insults ...... 10 . Vandals deface Budapest Holocaust exhibition ...... 11 POLAND ...... 12

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. Polish MEP gives in the European Parliament ...... 12 ▪ Jewish cemetery vandalised in Poland...... 12 SPAIN ...... 13 . Madrid councilor resigns following publication of anti-Semitic tweet ...... 13 SWEDEN ...... 13 ▪ Sweden's Deputy PM compares Mediterranean crisis to Holocaust ...... 13 THE NETHERLANDS ...... 14  REPORT: Dutch group report finds 71 % rise in Antisemitism ...... 14 . Rioters in The Hague rail at "Jewish murderers" ...... 14 . Prosecutors investigate anti-Semitic chants at Dutch football match ...... 15 UK ...... 15  REPORT: “Lack of clarity” on anti-Semitism levels in UK ...... 15 . Anti-Semitic graffiti at London Jewish school...... 15 ▪ British Neo-Nazis unfurl swastika at Jewish memorial ...... 16 ▪ Man charged after threats to kill London Jewish men ...... 16 ▪ London man arrested for making Nazi salute at Jews ...... 16 ▪ Former candidate claims Jews have taken over British Eurosceptic party ...... 16 ▪ Scottish Jews concerned for security amid rising anti-Semitism ...... 17 ▪ British party suspends candidate after anti-Semitic tweets ...... 17 ▪ Outrage in English village as re-enactors wear Nazi uniforms at WWII Festival ...... 17

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EXAMPLES OF ANTISEMITIC INCIDENTS

APRIL –JULY 2015

BELGIUM

. Former Belgian MP sentenced for Holocaust denial

Thursday, June 25, 2015 - Former Belgium MP Laurent Louis was given a suspended six-month prison sentence for Holocaust denial by a court in Brussels. Louis, who served as an MP in Belgium’s federal parliament for four years until 2014, received the punishment for making statements that consciously downplayed the atrocities committed by German occupation forces in Belgium during World War II. Click here to read the full article

. Islamic State supporters hack Belgian Jewish website

Monday, June 01, 2015 - A group of hackers claiming to be from the Islamic State pirated the site of Belgium’s Fondation de la Mémoire contemporaine. The foundation studies the history of Jews in Belgium. The organisation’s home page was replaced with a hostile message attacking and the United States. The message read (sic): “A message to all peoples of the world and especially to governments. Islamic State List to restore the right of Muslims who have been killed by your

Page 3 of 17 governments savage and unjust. Islamic State will restore dignity for Muslims. Will purge the land of the Muslims from the hypocrites infidels. It intervenes you will equip you to dwell in cemeteries.”

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. Brussels public order: officer faces the sack for Antisemitic Facebook post Monday, June 01, 2015 - A municipal security worker in Brussels faces a disciplinary procedure after making Antisemitic comments on Facebook. The man, who is employed as a “peace guard” has currently only been described as “Mohammed N”. He was taking part in a discussion on the social media network about the suspension of a Brussels MP for refusing to acknowledge the Armenian genocide. The man called for Jews to be beaten “one by one for what they are doing to the Palestinians”. Click here to read the full article

CROATIA

 REPORT: Far-right surges in Croatia

Wednesday, June 24, 2015 - In the mixed ethnic towns of eastern Croatia, road signs in the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet have been destroyed and Serbian Orthodox churches have been vandalised with a “U” symbol representing the Nazi-linked World War II Ustasha regime. Ustasha chants echo at sports venues and rock concerts. Analysts say the right-wing advance in Croatia — traditionally deeply split between left-wing and conservative traditions — has surged to its highest point since the country gained independence from the former Serb-led Yugoslavia in the 1991-95 war.

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. Swastika on pitch at match in Croatia Monday, June 15, 2015 - Italy have made an official complaint to UEFA after a large swastika appeared to have been mowed into the turf before their Euro 2016 qualifier against Croatia at the Stadion Poljud in Split. With the match being played behind closed doors after fans twice disrupted their team’s 1-1 draw with Italy in Milan in November 2014, the symbol was spotted during the first half of the match. “As far as we have learned, the symbol was imprinted into the pitch between 24 and 48 hours before the match so that it could be visible during the game” said Tomislav Pacak, a Croatian Football Federation (HNS) spokesman. Click here to read the full article

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CYPRUS

. Arrests in Cyprus in plot to target Israelis and Jews Monday, June 01, 2015 - A Lebanese Hezbollah operative arrested in Cyprus on terrorism charges may have been part of a wide-ranging effort by the terrorist group to carry out attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets. The 26-year-old Lebanese man was arrested by security authorities in Cyprus on suspicion of planning to carry out a terrorist attack against Israeli tourists vacationing on the island. The man, who is also a Canadian national, was found to be in possession of two tons of fertilisers containing ammonium nitrate — a chemical that can be used as an explosive. He was apprehended at his home in Larnaca. Click here to read the full article

CZECH REPUBLIC

 REPORT: Sharp increase in threats and harassment of Czech Jews Tuesday, May 05, 2015 - A new report by Prague's Jewish community has registered a significant increase of cases of harassment and threats against Jews in 2014. The annual report on anti- Semitism released says such attacks — including anti-Semitic letters and emails, verbal attacks and harassment in front of Jewish objects — jumped to 37 in 2014 from nine in 2013. The report says attacks against Jews on the Internet rose to 191 cases compared to 156 the previous year. The report says anti-Semitism in the Czech Republic remains at a relatively low level with one physical attack registered last year and five attacks on Jewish property. The biggest threat is posed by potential terrorist attacks by radicalised individuals. Click here to read the full article

DENMARK

. Copenhagen church vandalised ahead of rabbi's lecture Tuesday, May 05, 2015 - Unidentified persons vandalised St. Anne's Church, located in the Nørrebro neighbourhood of Copenhagen, ahead of a scheduled visit by the former chief rabbi of Denmark, Bent Melchior. They painted slogans "Free Gaza" and "Close the KZ camps" on the doors of the church and hurled cobblestones through its windows. Police called the incident politically motivated. Despite the incident, Melchior visited the church and gave a speech on the 70th anniversary of Denmark's liberation in World War II. Click here to read the full article

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FRANCE

. French terror suspect allegedly involved in attack on Jewish teen Monday, June 29, 2015 - Yassine Salhi, suspected of carrying out an attack at a French industrial gas factory, was also allegedly involved in an anti-Semitic attack in 2012. Salhi, 35, a married father of three, is known to have ties to Salafist radicals in France, and was under surveillance from 2006 to 2008. In 2012, Salhi and another man allegedly hit a Jewish teenager and Salhi allegedly hurled anti-Semitic abuse at him while they were traveling on a train from Toulouse to Lyon. Click here to read the full article

. Serial Holocaust denier goes online Thursday, June 25, 2015 - Robert Faurisson, one of Europe’s leading Holocaust deniers, was given a six-month suspended sentence and a 10,000 euros fine for comments he made denying the existence of Nazi death camps and gas chambers in a video posted on the internet. Handing down sentence, the judge described the comments as “an insult, an assault, and a second death sentence for Holocaust victims.” Click here to read the full article

. Anti-Semitic slogans scrawled on monument in Alsace Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - Anti-Semitic graffiti was scrawled on a memorial to the French Resistance in the eastern region of Alsace. The graffiti which read “juden raus” or “Jews out” was discovered in the village of Thann on a Cross of Lorraine monument, the symbol of the Gaullist Resistance.

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. Dieudonné fined for distorting French Jewish singer's work Monday, June 15, 2015 - A French court has fined anti-Semitic comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala 130,000 euros for distorting a famous song by a Jewish French singer. The decision was the final ruling in a case that has been ongoing for the past year. Click here to read the full article

. Former French MP calls for boycott of kosher leaf pastry Thursday, June 11, 2015 - A former French Communist MP from France’s Communist Party who heads a pro-Palestinian lobby group has called on Muslims to boycott locally-produced kosher leaf pastry. In a Facebook post, Jean-Claude Lefort warned Muslims ahead of Ramadan to avoid purchasing “feuilles de brique”, a traditional North African leaf pastry utilised in the cooking of sweet and savoury delicacies. “Jean-Claude Lefort called for a boycott of kosher products, exactly like the Nazis in the 1930s who ‘warned’ Germans against ‘Jewish businesses’”, Habib wrote. Click here to read the full article

. French far-Rightist investigated for comments against Klarsfeld couple Friday, May 22, 2015 - A French court has opened an investigation into remarks on Facebook by far-Right polemicist Alain Soral attacking Serge and Beate Klarsfeld. The Klarsfelds have documented the history of the Shoah in France and exposed those who collaborated with the Nazis. They recently received Germany’s Order of Merit. Soral posted an extract of a press article about the award with the comment « Look what happens when you don’t complete the job ». The remark drew a number of responses, one of which described “the job” as “the extermination of the Jews”. Soral recently received a 10,000 euro fine for making a gesture at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial. Click here to read the full article

. Former French candidate receives two-year electoral ban for anti-Semitic comments Thursday, May 14, 2015 - A former candidate from France’s far-Right Front National party has been banned from standing for elected office for two years after posting anti-Semitic comments on Facebook. Alexandre Larionov, 24, from the Aveyron region in Southern France, was also fined 1,500 euros by a court in Rodez. Larionov has already been expelled by the party. Click here to read the full article

. French police investigating attack on man outside synagogue near Paris Monday, April 27, 2015 - French police have opened an investigation after a 53-year-old man was attacked outside a synagogue near Paris. The man was beaten up and anti-Semitic curses were

Page 7 of 17 shouted at him as he walked home from the synagogue in Saint-Ouen, north-east of the capital. The man was lightly injured and did not require hospitalisation. Click here to read the full article

GERMANY

 REPORT: Huge rise in anti-Semitic crimes in Germany Tuesday, June 09, 2015 - A large rise in anti-Israel crimes in Germany committed by foreigners and immigrants in 2014 points to an urgent need for action, a German politician says. The government should support Arab and Muslim groups engaged in education against anti-Semitism and anti- , Green Party parliamentarian Volker Beck said in a statement after the government release of statistics showing a marked increase in both anti-Semitic and anti-Israel crimes in 2014.

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 REPORT: Anti-Semitism up 25% in Germany Thursday, May 07, 2015 - The number of anti-Semitic offences in Germany is once again on the rise, as well as crimes against foreigners, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said. De Maiziere based his statement in part on evidence that used “new reporting methods that more closely track the motivation of perpetrators.” In 2014, crimes against Jews were up 25.2% from the year prior, while crimes against foreigners were up 21.5%. In Germany, the number of reported crimes increased overall. Click here to read the full article

. Vandals deface Jewish history exhibit in Munich Wednesday, July 01, 2015 - Police in Münich are investigating a graffiti attack on an outdoor exhibit about local Jewish history. The exhibit is located in front of the Jewish museum and community centre on Jakobsplatz in central Munich. The graffiti includes Hitler’s mustaches burned onto photographs of rabbis and politicians. The exhibit was erected following a public celebration of 200 years since the founding of Munich’s Jewish community and 70 years since its reestablishment after . Click here to read the full article

. Berlin's new Jewish conductor met by anti-Semitism in German press Tuesday, June 30, 2015 - Kirill Petrenko, 43, a Russian-born Jew, was appointed last week to replace Sir Simon Rattle, who is leaving to take over the London Symphony Orchestra, in September 2018. Petrenko stopped talking to the media following commentaries by Northern German Radio, or NDR,

Page 8 of 17 and Welt Online which used anti-Semitic tropes, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported. The offending material has been removed. Click here to read the full article

GREECE

. Greek MP tries to apologise for Holocaust trivialisation - and fails Friday, June 26, 2015 - Coalition partner Independent Greeks has distanced itself from one of its own MPs, Dimitris Kammenos who posted on his Facebook page a doctored photograph of the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The photograph showed the sign over the entrance reading “We’re staying in Europe” rather than “Arbeit macht frei.” “We’re staying in Europe” was the slogan used for the two recent pro-euro rallies in central Athens. Independent Greeks spokeswoman Marina Chrysoveloni said that the lawmakers’ post was an “utterly personal action.” Kammenos was criticised by the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS), the country’s EJC affiliate, which called his post “shameful” as it “trivialises in the most hideous way the sign over the gate of Auschwitz.” After this complaint, Kammenos apologised and claimed there had been a “misunderstanding.” “Maybe the comparison was unfortunate but my country is experiencing an economic holocaust,” he wrote on Facebook. Click here to read the full article

. Greek Holocaust memorial vandalized two weeks after dedication

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Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - A Holocaust memorial in Greece has been desecrated just two weeks after its dedication. The black marble monument, which commemorates the 1,484 Jews from the northern port city of Kavala who were murdered by the Nazis, was found covered in blue paint, according to The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, the country’s European Jewish Congress affiliate. Click here to read the full article

. Athens memorial to child Holocaust victims vandalised Thursday, June 11, 2015 - A memorial to the 13,000 Greek Jewish children murdered in the Holocaust was desecrated with Nazi images. The memorial, which sits next to a playground erected in the children’s memory in central Athens, was defaced with a Nazi swastika and Nazi SS signs, according to the Jewish Community of Athens. Click here to read the full article

HUNGARY

. Hungarian official fired for anti-Semitic comments

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - Former Hungarian MP Imre Sisák was fired from his position as head of department at a county government bureau after a video surfaced of him calling Jews a “nefarious, dirty folk”. The controversial video, posted on YouTube, is believed to have been recorded between 2006 and 2010 when Sisák was mayor of Pásztó in northern Hungary. His comments are thought to have been made in reference to László Krämer, a late member of the town council for the Hungarian Socialist Party. Sisák’s dismissal went into immediate effect upon orders of the Prime Minister’s Office. The former Fidesz MP was head of the department at the Nógrád county government bureau since a failed 2014 bid to be re-elected as mayor of Pásztó. Click here to read the full article

. Israeli diplomat in Hungary receives anti-Semitic insults Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - An Israeli diplomat in Hungary was accosted and subjected to anti- Semitic invectives. Consul Motti Rave was called a “dirty Jew” and was told that Hitler “should have finished the job” by a local man who overheard him speaking Hebrew. Rave, who as a child of survivors is fluent in Hungarian, understood the insults and called in the police, who arrested the culprit. Click here to read the full article

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. Vandals deface Budapest Holocaust exhibition Thursday, April 09, 2015 - Vandals in Budapest defaced an exhibition about Holocaust survivors and, in a separate incident, painted a swastika opposite a synagogue. The incident involving the exhibition was reported by the Hungarian Jewish community’s watchdog on anti-Semitism, the Action and Protection Foundation, or TEV. According to the report on TEV’s Facebook page, unknown individuals splashed red paint on 14 portraits showing Holocaust survivors with the youngest members of their families.

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POLAND . Polish MEP gives Nazi salute in the European Parliament

Friday, July 10, 2015 - Polish foreign minister Grzegorz Schetyna has apologised for the behaviour of one of the country’s MEP's who gave a Nazi salute during a debate in the European Parliament. "We all are ashamed of such behaviour and we apologise to Europe, the European Parliament, sorry [also] to the voters," Schetyna told Polish news channel TVN24. A debate about train and bus tickets spiraled out of control in the European Parliament as Polish MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke gave a Nazi salute and cried out "ein volk, ein reich" in protest. Click here to read the full article

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Wednesday, April 08, 2015 - Unknown individuals painted pentagrams and wrote a former Pope’s name on several Jewish tombstones they desecrated and smashed in Olkusz, in southern Poland. The desecration occurred recently at the Jewish cemetery of Olkusz, a town located 25 miles north- west of Krakow, according to a report released on the Facebook page of the Monitoring Centre for Racist and Xenophobic Behaviour, a Polish non-governmental watchdog. In its report on the incident, the Coordination Forum for Countering Anti-Semitism said dozens of headstones were destroyed in Olkusz. Another headstone had the name Jan Pawel — the Polish name of Pope John Paul II — spray painted on it. Click here to read the full article

SPAIN

. Madrid councilor resigns following publication of anti-Semitic tweet Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - Guillermo Zapata, the Madrid city councilor in charge of cultural and sport affairs, resigned his post because of a series of anti-Jewish tweets that mocked the Holocaust. Zapatatweeted in 2011, “How do you fit five million Jews in a SEAT 600 [a Spanish car]? In the ashtray.” His tweets unleashed a firestorm of criticism in Spain. Two Twitter hashtags calling for his resignation, #ZapataDimisión or #ZapataDimision, electrified the Twittersphere and were trending at one point. Click here to read the full article

SWEDEN

▪ Sweden's Deputy PM compares Mediterranean crisis to Holocaust Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - Sweden's deputy prime minister has sparked outrage after comparing the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean to the horrors of the Holocaust. In a televised party leader debate, Asa Romson deplored the desperate situation of migrants trying to make the perilous and often deadly crossing to Europe, saying: 'We are...turning the Mediterranean into the new Auschwitz.' Critics, including Jewish leaders, called the comparison to the Nazi death camp misguided and offensive. About 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were killed in Auschwitz during the Second World War. Click here to read the full article

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THE NETHERLANDS

 REPORT: Dutch group report finds 71 % rise in Antisemitism

Thursday, April 02, 2015 - The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the Netherlands rose in 2014 by 71%, and some police officers are unwilling to intervene, the Jewish community’s watchdog on Antisemitism said. The Hague-based Centre for Information and Documentation on Israel, or CIDI, recorded 171 incidents in 2014 compared to 100 in 2013. The group also noted what it termed “a worrisome phenomenon — police officers’ failure to intervene in cases of evident Antisemitism. Some police officers prefer to look the other way,” CIDI said in a statement. CIDI also said the severity of the incidents increased. Those who wore kippahs or other Jewish symbols on the street accounted for a large portion of the overall number of victims of Antisemitic harassment or attacks last year, according to the statement. The prevalence of incidents in which individuals were harassed on the street because they were perceived as Jewish rose by 90% in 2014 over the previous year, to 40 incidents from 21. Incidents in which people were physically assaulted in Antisemitic attacks doubled to six from three. Click here to read the full article

. Rioters in The Hague rail at "Jewish murderers"

Monday, July 06, 2015 - Dozens of people chanted anti-Semitic slogans during riots that broke out in a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood of The Hague over the killing of a suspect by police. More than 100 people chanted about “Jewish murderers” in the Schilderswijk, a neighbourhood where a handful of Jews live in a Jewish-owned enclave surrounded by project apartments

Page 14 of 17 populated by low-income families. The riots took place at a theatre stormed by protesters approximately a mile away from the enclave, the De Telegraaf daily reported. More than 200 people were arrested since protests broke out in the Schilderswijk over the death of Mitch Henriquez, an Aruban citizen, at the hands of police officers who suffocated him during his arrest at a park.

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. Prosecutors investigate anti-Semitic chants at Dutch football match Friday, May 08, 2015 - The Netherlands’ public prosecution department is investigating chants by supporters at celebrations marking FC Groningen’s Dutch cup final win. RTL news reports that the department is looking at the text ‘En wie niet springt die is een Jood’ (who does not jump is a Jew) which was changed before an on-stage chat with Johan Kappelhof, who formerly played for Ajax. Ajax supporters call themselves Jews as a nickname, despite pleas by club officials to drop the tag. The public prosecution department launched an investigation into anti-Jewish chanting at a league match between FC Utrecht and Amsterdam club, Ajax. Supporters were clearly heard chanting about having a mother in the SS and ‘Jews burning best’. Click here to read the full article

UK

 REPORT: “Lack of clarity” on anti-Semitism levels in UK Monday, May 18, 2015 - The extent of anti-Semitism in the UK is hard to gauge because there is a lack of accurate data, according to the Jewish community’s main think tank. Despite a number of surveys carried out over the years, there remains a “distinct lack of clarity”, the Institute for Jewish Policy Research said in a new report, entitled “Could It Happen Here?”. Some sources showed that the level of antipathy towards Jews was “comparatively low and stable in the UK, even though other sources demonstrate that 2014 broke all known records for the number of anti-Semitic incidents.”

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. Anti-Semitic graffiti at London Jewish school Wednesday, July 01, 2015 - A Jewish primary school in east London Hackney was vandalised with graffiti daubed on its gates reading ‘F*** the Jews.’ The Simon Marks primary school in Hackney was the victim of the anti-Semitic attack. A spokesman for volunteer neighbourhood watch group Shomrim told the Evening Standard: “It’s disturbing. They were nasty words. It’s being investigated at the moment – we’re checking out CCTV but no one has been caught yet.”

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▪ British Neo-Nazis unfurl swastika at Jewish memorial Friday, June 12, 2015 - Neo-Nazis filmed themselves defacing a Jewish monument in a suburb of Birmingham in the English Midlands, draping a swastika flag and hate slogans over it. The extremists from the pro-Hitler hate group National Action also smeared anti-Jewish graffiti onto the park gates. Police are now investigating the attack after a video emerged on online video-sharing site YouTube. It was uploaded from an account linked to National Action, a fascist youth group said to have previously been under investigation by anti-terrorism cops. The video shows figures spray-painting a Jewish Star of David onto the park gates, with the caption “bankers” and ''1%"before they climb a menorah, a seven-branched candle stand used in Jewish worship. Click here to read the full article

▪ Man charged after threats to kill London Jewish men Monday, June 08, 2015 - A man has been charged with a racially or religiously aggravated offence after two Jewish men were allegedly abused and threatened in London. The men, described as “visibly Jewish”, were approached while walking on the River Lea towpath in Hackney, east London, and subjected to a tirade of anti-Semitic abuse. A member of Shomrim, the Jewish neighbourhood watch group, said: "A male suspect allegedly shouted 'f***ing Jews" before walking right up to the victims, threatening them [and saying] "I'll f***ing kill you" and "I'll f***ing break your neck". Police closed off the area of the towpath near Lea Bridge Road after the incident.

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▪ London man arrested for making Nazi salute at Jews Tuesday, June 02, 2015 - A London man has been arrested for making a Nazi salute and yelling "Heil Hitler" at a group of Jews. The neighborhood watch group "Shomrim" saw the incident and reported it to the police. The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that “A man has been held on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence and was taken to an east London police station." Click here to read the full article

▪ Former candidate claims Jews have taken over British Eurosceptic party Tuesday, May 26, 2015 - A former candidate from Britain’s Eurosceptic UKIP party has said ‘Jewish interest groups’ have taken over the party. Footage of Jack Sen, who was suspended by the party just before the election, shows him launching an anti-Semitic attack after he spoke to far-right group The London Forum. In the speech he said UKIP was a “great organisation” when he first joined, but said he thinks “something stinks”. “I don’t know if it’s been hijacked, or I was naive from the beginning and it was already in the pockets of Jewish special interest groups,” he added.

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▪ Scottish Jews concerned for security amid rising anti-Semitism Tuesday, May 26, 2015 - Scottish Jews experienced almost as many anti-Semitic incidents in one month in 2014 as in the whole of 2013, prompting some to consider leaving the country. The Scottish Council of Jewish Communities (SCoJeC) put the spike down to the conflict in Gaza last summer, reporting that it led to “unprecedented expressions of fear, anxiety, insecurity, and alienation.” Initial findings released from the nationwide survey ‘What’s Changed About Being Jewish in Scotland’ showed that a majority of the 6,000-strong community blamed the Gaza conflict for rising anti-Semitism, with 60 % saying the war had “negatively affected” them.

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▪ British party suspends candidate after anti-Semitic tweets Tuesday, May 05, 2015 - A parliamentary candidate from Britain’s Eurosceptic UKIP party has been suspended after tweeting an anti-Semitic slur to a Jewish Labour MP. Jack Sen, the candidate for West Lancashire, tweeted to the shadow health minister, Luciana Berger: “You’re about authentic Labour as Ed Miliband. Protect child benefits? If you had it your way you’d send the £ to Poland/ Israel.” The President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews Vivian Wineman said before hearing of Sen’s suspension: “This is an outrageous, anti-Semitic slur. We expect UKIP to respond swiftly and decisively and show that there is no room for such racism in their party.”

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▪ Outrage in English village as re-enactors wear Nazi uniforms at WWII Festival Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - Men wearing Nazi costumes sporting swastikas and SS emblems caused outrage when they casually mingled through the crowds of the village of Haworth in northern England during a popular 1940s event. Organisers were promising a "very special" three-day event to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1940s and the 70th anniversary of VE DAY. However the choice of distasteful outfits instead caused disgust with one veteran onlooker appalled by their appearance and a Royal British Legion branch chairman questioning the taste of those involved. Pat Bailey, branch chairman at Poynton Royal British Legion, said: "It is in such poor taste. A lot of people will be appalled by the timing of this." Click here to read the full article

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