Antisemitism
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Kaleb Cole, 25, of Montgomery, Texas, was convicted of conspiracy, three counts of mailing threatening material and one count of interfering with a federally protected activity.
In the plea deal, 22-year-old John Earnest admitted to hate-crime allegations.
“Neo-Nazi groups are trying to re-emerge, and their popularity has increased with the economic crisis. We see them as criminals who deny the Holocaust and promote neo-Nazi ideas; they have no place at all in Greek society,” said Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias.
It is “a significant step forward in protecting our people,” said Michael Masters, national director and CEO of SCN.
The local parliament also demanded that Spain’s national parliament adopt legislation to deny public aid to entities that promote anti-Semitism.
The original Durban declaration was also censured for allowing the presence of overt anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hate, as well as including Palestinians as the only group named as victims of racism.
People outside of Congregation Shaarei Tefilah, where a Sukkot event was being held, reported seeing a man in a black Toyota Corolla who yelled, “I’m a real Muslim. I’ll show you what real terrorism looks like.”
The new law defines anti-Semitism as hatred of Jews, including attacks, false or hateful statements and denying the mass extermination of Ukrainian Jewry during the Holocaust.
“The Durban Declaration is laced with anti-Semitism, and the goal of those who celebrate it is not racial equality but the undermining and eventual destruction of the state of Israel,” stated former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
“The reaction to the revelation has been enormous and unequivocal,” said Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, director of policy at Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said WDR bears “a great responsibility not to present anyone on the screen who could spread hatred of Israel.”
Michael Park, 32, performed a Nazi salute and then physically attacked a woman at a subway station in Toronto after asking her multiple times if she was “a Jew.”
