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North and South America

June, 2009
United States
The book, Cartoons and Extremism: Israel and the Jews in Arab and Western Media , compiles decades of anti-Semitic Arab and Muslim editorial cartoons featured in Arabic-language newspapers.
Related: Slideshow of cartoons (may or may not be from book) here.

June 23, 2009
United States
A U.S. organization has been receiving money from (perhaps) unsuspecting Jewish donors to support blatantly anti-Israel groups.
June 24, 2009
Ecuador
Anti-semitic graffiti painted outside Ecuador Foreign Ministry has not been removed for over two weeks.
June 24, 2009
Toronto, Canada
B’nai Brith Canada has denounced this week’s conference at York University as part of the ongoing anti-Israel parade on campus. York University has been in the news several times regarding anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist activities.
June 25, 2009
Santa Barbara, CA
A professor at a California university was cleared of alleged faculty misconduct for sending an e-mail to students comparing Israel’s policies in Gaza to the Nazis.
June 28, 2009
New York, NY
Two teens were arrested for terrorizing Jewish residents in the Lower East Side in what was called an “Anti-Semitic Spree”.
July 1, 2009
United States
Seven Reasons for Leftist Anti-Semitism is an interesting opinion piece by Don Feder.
July 3, 2009
United States
Although Jews voted overwhelmingly for Obama, many of them have voters’ remorse, according to Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz is still hopeful that Obama will follow through on his promise to support Jews’ interests. See July 6 refutation of this opinion piece below.
July 4, 2009
Mineola, NY
Two large bright orange swastikas were painted on Congregation Beth Shalom Chabad’s front doors.
July 6, 2009
United States
Melanie Phillips refutes Alan Dershowitz’ op-ed piece about Obama (above) in this very strong criticism.

Middle East

June 12, 2009
Samaria
Palestinian Authority media outlets continue to blame Israel for problems caused by wild boars in Samaria, despite Israeli efforts to cull the animals. Thursday, PA farmers near Ariel complained that “Israeli settlers” had engineered a wild boar attack that destroyed agricultural produce.
June 17, 2009
Israel
In an increasingly bitter legal dispute, the Company for Restitution of Holocaust Victims’ Assets will file a 305 million dollar lawsuit against Bank Leumi next week over assets that belong to Holocaust victims and their heirs.
June 27, 2009
Jerusalem, Israel
Chief Palestinian delegate to the Arab League Ambassador Mohamed Sobeih in a statement to reporters in Cairo said that the Wailing Wall is an integral part of the Al-Aqsa mosque, which is’ a place for Muslims and sincere part of the doctrine of one and a half billion Muslims in the world’. He said it became the Jews’ Wailing Wall after the occupation and control by force of arms.
June 28, 2009
Jerusalem, Israel
The Obama administration told the Palestinian Authority that the “golden era” of Israeli construction in sections of Jerusalem and the West End will soon end.
July 1, 2009
Israel
Video discusses the Jewish origins of many Palestinian people. Some still practice their Judaism in secret.
More here.
July 2, 2009
Homesh, West Bank
Palestinians defaced and burned dozens of Talmuds, bibles, and prayer books at a yeshiva located on the grounds of the evacuated West Bank settlement of Homesh.

Europe

June, 2009
Serbia and Hungary
Ultra nationalist vandals have been spray painting “666” and Stars of David. These symbols are intended to draw a link between NATO and Jews.
June 8, 2009
France
New movie, “Being Jewish in France”, discusses anti-semitism in France.
June 25, 2009
London, England
A Jewish school has been found guilty of race discrimination in a landmark decision in London.
June 26. 2009
France, EU
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights released its annual report this month. The report covers racism, discrimination, and related crime trends.(pdf linked)
June 29, 2009
Prague, Czech Republic
Vandals desecrated 63 tombs in a Jewish cemetery. Tombstones were broken and toppled and caused an estimated $27,000 in damages.
June 30, 2009
Lausanne, Switzerland
The bones of murdered Jews are being sold to medical students from a World War II mass grave, a private investigation suggests.
July 2, 2009
Panasesti, Republic of Moldova
A leading Moldovian community rabbi and his students were the victims of an anti-Semitic gang-style attack by a group of 8 to 10 teens and young adults.
July 3, 2009
Spain
The American Jewish Committee condemned the Spanish newspaper El Pais for publishing a blatantly anti-Semitic cartoon accusing Jews of using their financial power to enable Israel to “violate…all human and international laws.”
July 7, 2009
Berlin, Germany
Bernie Ecclestone, chief of Formula 1, apologized for positive remarks he made about Hitler (he had said Hitler would have “gotten things done”). However, on July 6, he said about those calling for his resignation,”it’s a pity they didn’t sort the banks out.” When asked to elaborate, Ecclestone said, “They have a lot of influence everywhere.” More here.
July 8, 2009
Berlin, Germany
A German court has ruled that Nazi SS officer Heinrich Boere, 88, is fit to face trial. Recently, the court also ruled that former Nazi guard John Demjanjuk, 89, is also fit to face trial for his crimes.
July/August 2009
Paris, France
Whenever Muslim youths are concerned, French authorities walk on eggshells for fear of igniting mass revolt. Regarding Ilan Halimi, Nidra Poller states, we are “left with the troubling impression that the more this evil of Jew-hatred eats into the tissue of French society, the more it will be shrouded in artificial doubts and fabricated subtleties.”

Asia

June 24, 2009
Siberia, Russia
A swastika was painted on the doors of a Jewish Community Center in Siberia, Russia.
July 1, 2009
Turkey
Turkey’s Jewish community reaches out to its Muslim neighbors in face of rising anti-Semitism.

Australia

July 4, 2009
Queensland, Australia
At least one citizen was disgusted that he had been targeted with racist neo-Nazi propaganda material. Chris Townley was outraged when a personally addressed envelope containing “Neo-Nazi anti-Semitic ranting” was delivered to his home this week.
July 8, 2009
Sydney, Australia
A group of Jewish lawyers has urged a United Nations committee not to submit to the “lynch mob mentality towards Israel.”

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