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Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Racist Attack in Kaliningrad

Two men attacked a black lawyer who works for the Kaliningrad regional legislature, according to a May 21, 2008 article in the national daily Komsomolskaya Pravda. Aleksandr Burger-Gasanov was attacked on the evening of May 9 (Victory Day) near his home. The victim noticed two men approaching him, but the attack happened too fast for him to react. He lost two liters of blood as a result of the ferocity of the attack, which was accompanied by racist abuse, including the “N word” which has migrated from English to the lexicon of the Russian far-right.

EJP | News | Eastern Europe | Orthodox American Jew attacked at cemetery in Poland

An Orthodox American Jew was attacked on Thursday by a group of teenagers in Warka, a city located 60 kilometres from Warsaw. The 19-year-old Asa Yitzhak Beich, from Anarbour, near Detroit, US, arrived in Poland two weeks ago and was visiting the “Ohel” or mausoleum commemorating Rabbbi Yitzhak Kalish, a well-known Hassidic rabbi, at the local Jewish cemetery.  The rabbi, who died in 1848, is buried in the cemetery, located on the banks of the Pilica river. Beich told EJP: “I was by myself when I arrived at the cemetery. There, I met a group of twenty teenagers – aged between 11 and 16- to whom I asked the direction of the Ohel. When I arrived at the Ohel, located on the top of a hill, the teenagers started laughing at me, asking me for money and shouting “Jew” in Polish before they punched me in the face.”

UK Indymedia - ‘Panzer Operation’: Spanish Army weapons in the hands of the extreme right gangs

The Crisis and the impunity of the neonazi armed gangs at Valencia Region, Spain. Interventions telephone, custom-month follow-ups and information infiltrators led to the Civil Guard to dismantle at the end of 2005 one of the politico-criminal armed gang of ultras, largest and most dangerous of the recent history of Spanish rule. Despite the fact that most detainees reside in the Valencia Region, the armed gang reaches more points in the state. The fact that the People’s Action against impunity were people in this cause has prevented the case-still under instruction-end held before the trial and that defendants will no longer dream of escape unpunished as on previous occasions. A criminal organization calling itself Anti System Front (FAS) acted as a organized for profit: planned robberies and assaults also sells all kinds of weapons, in collusion with military assets that had no hesitation in removing weapons from the Spanish army, as launchers and handguns. FAS was captained by Juan Manuel Soria, a fur tanners sentenced to more than two years in prison for extortion and grave threats to a priest-Valencia, which was surrounded by a legion of individuals with no known occupation. The weapons were used because individuals like Pedro Cuevas, the murderer of Guillem Agulló, could profit by selling Internet on behalf of the motherland. This is the so-called “Panzer Operation”, a criminal armed gang neo-fascist who has been on the verge of sleep the sleep of the righteous, if not by outside intrusions, five months ago scarce, “People’s Action against impunity” that has arrived in the case, when the 27 suspects are already rubbing their hands thinking that, again, could continue to act with impunity. Military, businessmen and criminals were part of a armed gang to Valencia, under the banner of the Third Reich, organized actions of Nazi propaganda for recruiting new militants and distributed all types of weaponry, among other criminal activities. The danger that the Guardia Civil detected allowed to undertake an investigation that led to uncover a criminal organization that had a veritable arsenal and alleged contacts within the law enforcement authorities in the state.

AdelaideNow… Nazi memorabilia at country market

NAZI memorabilia has been removed from a market in regional Victoria following a complaint from the Jewish community. Swastikas, an arm band, stamps and Nazi documentation from World War II were removed from sale at Daylesford’s Mill Markets yesterday. A member of the Jewish community spotted the memorabilia and complained to the B’nai B’rith Anti-defamation Commission (ADC), which contacted the market manager.

Mob of Nazi youths goes on immigrant rampage in ‘tolerant’ Rome - Times Online

Balaclava-clad gangs, some wearing bandanas emblazoned with swastikas, smashed shop windows with iron bars and baseball bats and beat up shopkeepers in a hitherto bohemian neighbourhood of Rome. Members of the gangs shouted “Get out, bastard foreigners” as they attacked Bengali shopkeepers in the explosion of xenophobic violence. Gianni Alemanno, the capital’s new right-wing Mayor, condemned the attacks, which took place in the eastern suburb of Pigneto, an area with a reputation for tolerance, on Saturday night.

The Local - Medical award for German accused of Nazi-era euthanasia

A German medical association has awarded a medal to a 92-year-old doctor who was a member of the SS suspected of carrying out Hitler’s euthanasia policies, according to the magazine Der Spiegel to be published on Monday. Dr Hans-Joachim Sewering was honoured for having “perfomed unequalled services in the cause of freedom of the practice and the independence of the medical profession,and to the nation’s health system,” according to a press statement by the German Federation of Internal Mecdicine (BDI). Since 1978, Der Spiegel has published documents testifying that Sewering, while a doctor at tuberculosis clinic at Schoebrunn near Munich, sent a 14-year-old girl to die at a euthanasia centre carrying out secret Nazi policies of murdering members of society especially weak of body or mind.

siehe auch: Germans give former SS doctor accused of killing 900 children a medal. Hans-Joachim Sewering: Accused of mass-murder. A former SS doctor accused of sending 900 sick children to their deaths under the Nazi euthanasia programme has been awarded a German medical association’s highest honour. The decision comes as Jewish organisations continue to press Germany to put 92-year-old Hans-Joachim Sewering on trial for mass murder. He was given the Guenther-Budelmann medal by the German Federation of Internal Medicine for “unequalled services in the cause of freedom of the practice and the independence of the medical profession and to the nation’s health system”.

PM Stanishev Honors Rescue of Bulgaria Jews from Nazi Holocaust: PM Stanishev Honors Rescue of Bulgaria Jews from Nazi Holocaust

The Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev participated Friday in the ceremony honoring the 65-year since the protests from May 24, 1943, with which the Bulgarian citizens opposed the deportation of the Bulgarian Jews to the Nazi death camps. “It is very important to remember today the lessons, and not to allow hatred towards the different religions, ethnicities, and convictions in Bulgaria, because democracy is a constant struggle”, Stanishev said quoted by the Trud Daily.