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North America

June 8, 2009
Brooklyn, NY
A New York state assemblyman has said a new Brooklyn Holocaust memorial should be only for Jews.

June 8, 2009
New York, NY
Andre Aciman reminds Obama of the exodus Obama failed to mention in his speech to the Islamic world.

June 9, 2009
Middletown, CT
Stephen Morgan, on trial for killing Wesleyan student Johanna Justin-Jinich, has pled not guilty to new charges.

June 10, 2009
Hampton, VA
Reverend Jeremiah Wright claims “The Jews” are keeping him from Obama.

June 10, 2009
Toronto, Canada
Only half of Canadians polled have a favorable view of Jews and Judaism. More here.

June 10, 2009
United States
Facebook advertisers unaware they advertise side by side with Holocaust denial pages.

June 11, 2009
Washington, DC
James Glassman, former Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, said Obama’s Cairo speech fell short by failing to offer a new strategic direction. Glassman said the problem is the president continued the ineffective line of reasoning that the best way to counter the false notion that the U.S. is out to destroy Islam is by promoting the “to know us is to love us” theme.

June 11, 2009
Washington, DC
White supremacist Gunman opens fire inside the lobby of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He killed a security guard before being captured.

June 11, 2009
Morgantown, WV
Former Wall Street Journal reporter Asra Nomani begins to speak out about Islam in response to Daniel Pearl’s beheading.

June 11, 2009
United States
Victor Davis Hanson points out historical errors in Obama’s Cairo speech.

June 15, 2009
United States
Jewish groups have asked their constituents to send thousands of cards and e-cards on behalf of Gilad Shalit to Obama ahead of the June 21 Father’s Day holiday.

June 15, 2009
United States
American voters’ support for Israel has dropped 20 percent in the past nine months, a new survey found.

June 16, 2009
United States
Neo-Nazis in the United States Army. Since the launch of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the military has loosened regulations, issuing “moral waivers” and allowing even those with criminal records to join.

June 16, 2009
Washington, DC
Op-ed piece “Where Anti-Semitism Is Mainstream”, by Richard Cohen.

June 17, 2009
Canada
” ‘Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people,’ said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his Bar Ilan speech last week, summing up in nine words why the Middle East conflict is intractable. Being the Jewish nation-state is precisely what the Arab/Muslim world can’t accept about Israel.” writes George Jonas in his op-ed piece.

June 22, 2009
United States
Scholar and former Muslim discusses Islamic Anti-Semitism in the foreword to Andrew Bostom’s The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism.

June 22, 2009
United States
N. Richard Greenfield asks “Where are American Jews?” in this opinion piece.

June 22, 2009
Toronto, Canada
Two Canadian firms are committing “war crimes” by building on land in the West Bank, a Palestinian farming community is claiming in a lawsuit. More here

South America

June 18, 2009
Cartagena, Colombia
Orthodox Jews refuse to accept new converts and refuse them access to Jewish mikvahs.

June 22, 2009
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
It is now mandatory to teach the holocaust in Porto Alegre’s schools. Porto Alegre is among Brazil’s 10 largest cities and, with some 12,000 Jews, home to its third largest Jewish community. It has been the site of many anti-Semitic attacks.

Middle East

May 29, 2009
Morocco
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has recognized the horror of the holocaust, calling the Holocaust “one of the blots, one of the most tragic chapters in modern history. Amnesia has no bearing on my perception of the Holocaust, or on that of my people.”

June 9, 2009
London, England
London-based A-Sharq al-Awsat reports that U.S. President Barack Obama presented his version of peace in the Middle East to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during the latter’s visit to Washington last month. Obama is giving Netanyahu six weeks from the date of his Cairo speech to respond to accept the plan.

June 10, 2009
Israel
A Zionist student group at Hebrew University was met with Nazi salutes by other students during a pro-Israel demonstration.

June 10, 2009
Palestinian Authority
U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell sounded out the Palestinian Authority on a land swap that would allow Israel to retain large population centers in Judea and Samaria in return for the PA’s receiving land that includes Arab cities.

June 11, 2009
Lebanon
Palestinian Peace Activist Writes on ‘Lessons of the Holocaust’. Aziz Abu Sarah writes, “I was moved by the story to a degree that I cannot describe. The connection I made with those who suffered the Holocaust goes beyond nationality, religion or race; it was the connection of one human being to another in the face of universally understandable pain.”

June 11, 2009
Saudi Arabia
In an anti-Semitic column in the Saudi daily Al-Watan, titled “A Palestinian Hitler,” Saudi columnist ‘Abdallah Nasser Al-Fawzan questioned the Holocaust and claimed that year after year, the Jews were inflating claims of the number of its victims by the thousands. Al-Fawzan further claimed that the real holocaust was the ongoing Israeli slaughter of the Palestinians, and that the Jews were taking revenge on the Palestinians as if it were the Palestinians and not the Germans who had murdered their fathers.

June 11, 2009
Tehran, Iran
Iranian Presidential Candidate Mohsen Rezai says “The Holocaust should not be part of our political discourse. Video here.

June 16, 2009
Tehran, Iran
The Jewish community here has canceled social and educational programs out of safety concerns during the current unrest.

June 17, 2009
Gaza
A jihadist website posted a 15-minute audio recording by Sheikh Abdallah Al-Muhajir, commander of the Gaza organization Ansar Jund Allah, titled “The Proclamation” (from the “The Proclamation Battle,” the name given to the June 8, 2009 attack for which Ansar Jund Allah took responsibility). In it, Al-Muhajir tells the Jews, ‘We Have Come To You… With People Who Love Death More Than You Love Life’

June 19, 2009
Tehran, Iran
Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denied that the country’s recent elections were fixed, called on protesters to stop, and blamed the “Zionist” media.

June 21, 2009
Yemen
An appeals court in Yemen sentenced Abdul-Aziz al-Abdi to death for the murder of a Jewish man.

Europe

June 8, 2009
Budapest, Hungary
Hungarian Jews are reeling from far-right party’s political gains. The party Jobbickreceived nearly 15 percent of Hungary’s vote in the EU parliamentary elections.

June 9, 2009
Washington, DC
Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union today called for criminal charges of ethnic incitement to be brought against a member of the Kherson, Ukraine regional legislature after he threatened pogroms in a recent interview.

June 10, 2009
Rome, Italy
Roman Jews planned to boycott meeting with Libya’s Ghadafi unless the date is changed from Shabbat. Thousands of Jews were forced out of Libya in 1967.

June 10, 2009
European Union
European Jews have expressed fears that the gains by anti-Islam and anti-immigration parties in this week’s European Union parliamentary elections will heighten anti-Semitism.

June 16, 2009
Berlin, Germany
The head of German’s Jewish community condemned any suggestion of negotiations with the current Iranian regime.

June 16, 2009
Budapest, Hungary
Vandals desecrate Holocaust memorial with pigs’ feet.

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