The Annual Report on Anti - Semitism Symptoms In the Czech Republic in 2014

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2 PURPOSE OF THE ANNUAL REPORT ON ANTI-SEMITISM SYMPTOMS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC IN 2014 The Annual report on anti - Semitism symptoms in 2014 (the Report) has been prepared by the Security Department of the Jewish Community of Prague (SD) for the internal needs of the Jewish Community of Prague (JCP) and other Jewish communities in the Czech Republic (CR), but also for the needs of other institutions which process data on anti- Semitism further on. The aim of the Report is to provide as comprehensive picture of anti-semitism and social climate related to manifestations of anti- Semitism, as the acquired information allows. The Report provides not only data acquired during the last year, but also compares registered anti Semitic symptoms with the development in previous years. METHODOLOGY AND TERMINOLOGY a. The Report consists of several parts. The first one is information on registered anti-semitic incidents and their comparison with previous years. SD considers such an act as anti-semitic incident that is directed against persons with Jewish self-identification, members of the Jewish community, Jewish organizations or Jewish property and it can be proved that the incident has anti - Semitic motivation or the victim of the incident was intentionally selected for his/her Jewishness, even alleged one (from the view of an offender). Anti-Semitic incidents may take various forms: attacks on property or physical or verbal attacks. More detailed categorization of individual anti-semitic acts or articles are described below. All the incidents and manifestations listed bellow and described as anti-semitic meet the definition of anti-semitism given further in the text. b. The Report contains only a general list of anti-semitic incidents and texts. With regard to damaged persons and their safety it does not give details allowing their identification. The list of individual incidents, articles and manifestations on the Internet is attached at the end of the Report. c. The data used in the annual report come from several sources: from those that were subjects to anti-semitic incidents, from Czech Jewish organizations and communities, from published documents and analyses of other organizations and state institutions and from open sources - both from mainstream media and websites of monitored organizations. It is possible that some anti-semitic incidents, which were neither reported by the police nor by SD for various reasons, are not mentioned in the Report, since such information was not available for SD. All the analyses included in the Report are based on collected data. 2.

3 DEFINITION OF ANTI-SEMITISM Guideline for identification of anti-semitism - published by the European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) - plays a decisive role in this Report. The Coordinating Forum for Combating Anti - Semitism (CFCA) 1, that SD cooperates with, also uses the same method. Though the guideline disappeared from the website of FRA in November 2013, our Report still uses the guideline in the same way as CFCA does it. According to this definition such a perception of Jews can be considered anti-semitism, which may be explained as hatred towards them. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-semitism can be aimed at Jewish and non-jewish individuals or their property, at Jewish community institutions and religious facilities. Similar manifestations could also target the State of Israel they are of anti- Semitic character if the State of Israel is attacked as a representative of Jewish collectivity as specified by FRA below ( The 3D test, see also below). Anti-Semitism frequently accuses Jews of conspiring to harm humanity and it is often used to blame Jews of actual problems. Anti-Semitism appears in the spoken word, writing, visual forms and in other activities, taking advantage of the sinister stereotypes and allegedly negative character traits of the Jews." The FRA definition also describes specific individual manifestations of anti-semitism: "Contemporary examples of anti-semitism in public life, in the media, at schools, in the workplace and in the religious sphere, taking into account the overall context, may take forms such as: 1. Calling for, aiding or justifying the killing of Jews or serious harm to Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religious attitude. 2. Accusing Jews of mendacity, dehumanization and demonization or making stereotypical allegations about individual Jews (or the power of Jews as a collective) especially, but not exclusively, such as the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or about Jews controlling the media, economy, government and other social institutions. 3. Holding Jews collectively responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a Jewish person or a group of Jews or even for acts committed by non-jews. 4. Denying the fact, scope, method of execution (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide against the Jews committed by German Nazis together with their supporters and accomplices during the World War II (the Holocaust). 1 CFCA is an Internet forum, which collects information on anti-semitic incidents from various sources around the world. The members of the Forum include, among others: the Israeli Ministry of Education, Sochnut - Jewish Agency, The Community Security Trust ( CST ), the United Kingdom, Vidal Sasson Institute at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Stephen Roth Institute at Tel Aviv University. 3.

4 5. Accusing Jews as a people or Israel as a state of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust. 6. Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to the State of Israel or to the alleged priorities of World Jewry than to the interests of their own country. Examples of anti-semitism manifestations related to the State of Israel, taking into account the overall context, include: 1. Denying the right of Jewish people to self-determination, e.g. by claiming that the existence of the State of Israel is a racist endeavour. 2. Applying double standards by requiring such a behaviour that is not expected or demanded from any other democratic state. 3. Using symbols and images associated with classic anti - Semitism (e.g. accusing Jews of killing Jesus or of ritual murder) to characterize Israel or Israelis. 4. Comparing contemporary Israeli politics to that of Nazis. 5. Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the State of Israel. However, other criticism of Israel, similarly as criticism of any other state, cannot be considered anti - Semitism. 2 " 3D test 3 When determining manifestations of so-called new anti-semitism, which significantly concerns illegitimate criticism of Israel, and for the purpose of clearer distinction between Israel and new anti- Semitism, SD uses the so-called 3D test, written by N. Sharansky. 4 According to this test, such a statement is regarded as anti-semitic, that contains at least one of the so-called 3D. The first D stands for the demonization of Israel thus marking Israel for materialized evil and aggression. Comparing policies of the State of Israel to Nazi Germany or the Palestinian refugee camps to concentration camps etc. can be such an example. N. Sharansky 4 indicates the second D as a double standard, which is selectively applied to the State of Israel when assessing its foreign policy. This is especially evident within the United Nations where Israel is often a target of a number of one-sided and internal affairs. Condemnation statements and resolutions, while other, often undemocratic, authoritarian and totalitarian states, need not face adequate criticism and they themselves are often those who act against the State of Israel as an arbiter of compliance with international law and human rights. The third D symbolizes delegitimization of the State of Israel. Statements that deny the right of the State of Israel to its existence can be evaluated as anti-semitic. 2 Identification of anti-semitism originally proposed by EUMC, 2005 is available on Natan Sharansky is a Jew of Ukrainian origin, fighter for human rights, dissident, in later years an Israeli politician, Minister without portfolio for the issue of Jerusalem. Since 2009 President of Sochnut - the Jewish Agency, that operates worldwide. 4.

5 CATEGORIES OF ANTI-SEMITIC INCIDENTS The chapter Categories of anti-semitic Incidents contains particular types of anti-semitic acts categorized for the purpose of further processing the available data. Each category contains a brief characteristics and corresponding types of incidents: 1. Physical attacks on people and property Physical attacks on people - this category includes any attack on a person that causes any injury, respectively such an attack on a person intended to make bodily harm even if the object of the attack manages to escape or no injury occurs though it was intended. Attacks on Jewish property, not intended to make any bodily harm incidents where there is an obvious anti-semitic motivation to symbolically devalue Jewish property eg through anti- Semitic inscriptions, symbols, etc. These include e.g. the destruction of Jewish cemeteries, painting Nazi symbols on Jewish objects, etc. 2. Threats and harassment This category of anti-semitic incidents includes any written or verbal threats to the Jewish community or to individual Jews (personal, by telephone, or regular mail) who are considered to be Jews. Threats include such a statement or a written text where a particular person is threatened by an act of violence due to her/his even alleged Jewishness. If the statement is not clearly articulated or addressed to a particular person, the incident is registered in the category of harassment. Harassment includes any verbal, written or personal manifestation of hatred toward Jews or those who are considered to be Jews, that is not addressed to a particular person (or a specific group of people). The harassment, unlike threats, does not contain threats of further violence. 3. Anti-Semitic texts and pictures Articles and other texts containing manifestations, which can be regarded as anti-semitism as described above. The resulting number of monitored anti-semitic articles may be partially distorted due to the trend to place such pieces of information on closed servers etc. Anti-Semitism on social networking site Facebook is not part of the Report, due to the inability to monitor it in sufficient breadth. 5.

6 THE SITUATION IN Physical manifestations of anti-semitism remained *at a similar level in 2014 as in previous years. SD monitored 5 physical attacks on property and registered 1 attack on a person with anti-semitic motive (in 2013 SD monitored 3 attacks on property and 1 attack on a person). However, between 2013 and 2014 the data on threats and harassment significantly changed. It was recorded 28 cases of harassment and 9 cases of intimidation (in 2013 there were 6 cases of harassment and 3 cases of intimidation). So the total number of these incidents is four times higher than last year. More than half of these cases occurred in the period from July to September, which was marked by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Their character yet remains similar to previous years: anti-semitic letters and s, harassment in front of Jewish objects and verbal assaults. Data registered by SD are usually quite different from the statistics of other institutions such as the Police Presidium, which evaluate as being anti-semitic only those incidents which, according to Czech law, are considered a criminal offense. In contrast SD assesses anti-semitic incidents according to the above described FRA definition. 6 The data collected by the two institutions during the year 2014 are almost identical and identically talking about a 200% increase in anti-semitic acts. The data, however, coming from the above mentioned sources provide only a general overview about the state of anti-semitism in the CR. In comparison with 2013, there was a modest rise of hate posts on the Internet. Compared with previous years, leftist anti-semitism, the so- called new anti-semitism, that previously represented only a negligible part of manifestations on the Web, has strengthened and in 2014, left-wing anti- Semitism already represented a third of all recorded posts. This phenomenon is probably also related to the war Protective Edge operations in the Gaza Strip in the summer of Thus, the Czech 5 Photo message for Rabbi of Prague, August Statistical system administered by the Police Headquarters registered 45 crimes with anti-semitic motives in This represents a significant increase compared to previous years. In 2013 it was registered 15 crimes, which is an annual increase of 200%. Most of these crimes, 35 offenses, were under manifestation of sympathy for a movement aimed at suppressing human rights and freedoms, no. 40/2009 Coll., the Penal Code. 6.

7 Republic is slowly approaching the countries of Western Europe, where the source of new anti- Semitism is usually the far left. Among the main topics of right-wing extremists again belonged Holocaust denial or questioning of its victims - called Revisionism. Another leitmotif was conspiracy theories of Jewish domination, influence on politics and culture. In 2014, the conspiracy theories often concerned activities of Jews in Ukraine. The far left and other groups focused mainly on the situation in the Middle East and their manifestations were usually anti-zionist, in the spirit of the so-called new anti-semitism. 7.

8 COMPARISON OF ANTI-SEMITISM MANIFESTATIONS IN COMPARISON OF VARIOUS ANTI-SEMITISM MANIFESTATIONS FROM 2008 TO Physical attacks on a person Physical attacks on property Threats Harassment Texts, websites, pictures and videos TOTAL Physical Attacks/Harassment and Blackmailing/Articles, Pictures, Videos 7 Desecration of the cemetery in Ruprechtice, the Liberec region, May

9 LIST OF ANTI-SEMITIC INCIDENTS IN 2014 Date PHYSICAL ATTACKS ON PERSONS AND PROPERTY Description of the incident 26/2 Desecration - swastika on the Old-New Synagogue, Prague 29/5. Desecration - swastika and inscription Jews into gas, the cemetery in Ruprechtice, Liberec 24/7 Desecration - inscription Sieg Heil and swastika, the New Jewish Cemetery, Prague 21/9 Desecration - anti-semitic inscription painted with excrements, the Jewish cemetery, Fibichova str., Prague 24/9 Physical attack against a member of the JCP on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, Prague 2014 Desecration - anti-semitic graphics, the Jewish cemetery, Teplice THREATS AND HARASSMENT Date Description of the incident 1/1 Harassing with threats addressed to JCP 1/1 Harassment near Israeli Embassy 5/1 Harassing letter to JCP 13/1 Harassment in Maisel str., Prague 8/2 Harassment near the Old-New Synagogue, Prague 18/2 Harassment in Maisel str., Prague 21/3 Harassment in the New Jewish Cemetery, Prague March 2014 Psychical bullying an employee for Jewish origin 24/4 Harassing with threats addressed to JCP 1/5 Harassing addressed to JCP 4/5 Harassing with threats addressed to JCP 12/5 Harassment near Jewish Town Hall, Prague 23/5 Harassing addressed to JCP 24/5 Harassing with threats addressed to JCP 27/5 Harassing addressed to JCP 9.

10 3/7 Harassing addressed to JCP 2/7 Harassment in Maisel str., Prague 14/7 Harassment in Maisel str., Prague 5/8 Harassment in the New Jewish Cemetery, Prague 5/8 Harassing addressed to JCP 4/8 Harassing addressed to JCP 25/8 Harassing with threats addressed to JCP 26/8 Harassing letter addressed to JCP 9/9 Harassing letter addressed to JCP 18/9 Harassing addressed to JCP 19/9 Harassing letter addressed to JCP 25/9 Harassing with threats addressed to JCP 25/9 Harassing addressed to JCP 25/9 Harassing addressed to JCP 25/9 Harassment near the Old-New and Jeruzalem Synagogue, Prague 5/10 Harassing addressed to JCP 20/11 Harassing addressed to JCP 20/11 Harassing with threats addressed to JCP 20/11 Harassing with threats addressed to JCP 11/12 Harassing with threats addressed to Israeli Embassy, Prague 12/12 Harassing letter addressed to JCP 18/12 Harassing addressed to JCP 10.

11 Date Title Link ANTI-SEMITIC TEXTS, ANTI-SEMITIC PICTURES AND VIDEOS 8 2/1 Vraždili v Praze Židé 5/1 Obejdovy větry 12/1 V USA nařizují odstraňování křížů. Kvůli židům a satanistům. V Oklahomě má Boží desatero nahradit pomník satanovi 16/1 Mein Kampf jednou z nejprodávanějších e-knih na Amazonu 21/1 Nebetyčná drzost Žida Klímy 24/1 Historické události vysvětlující současnost. Spiknutí Židů neboli Chazarů 8/1 Kdo je Žid Goldman, který volá po vyhubení Čechů? Spiknuti-Zidu-neboli-Chazaru.html 27/1 Den památky obětí holokaustu 5/2 Pan Jandourek už dávno patří do Izraele. Na tom bychom měli trvat 26/1 Židovské spiknutí. Protokoly sionských mudrců Some posts were removed from the Internet for their hateful content during the year, as well as some blogs. Copies of the posts are deposited in the archives of SD JCP. 11.

12 8/2 Bolševickou revoluci v Rusku financovali zednáři, Židé a američtí bankéři. Tady jsou jasné důkazy 9/2 Pět Židů v současné vládě. Kdy se začneme bavit o tom, že si nevládneme sami? 16/2 Nová ministryně Marksová-Tominová je fanatická Židovka 7/2 Který Žid vlastně není obětí antisemitismu? Zide-a-americti-bankeri-Tady-jsou-jasne.html /2 Pozvánka na promítání: Cestovní mapa k apartheidu 25/2 Valentina Lyulya: Kdo je ukrajinská opozice? 4/3 Stránky obnovy socialismu_sos: Problém Krymu začal lákavou nabídkou Židů Moskvě, prozradil expert na Rusko 13/3 Kabalistická produkce ovlivňuje lidi po celém světě. Jak se tomu mohou bránit křesťané? 4/3 Izraelské spojení na ukrajinskou revoluci potvrzeno Moskve-prozradil-expert-na-Rusko.html 28/3 Diskuse o holokaustu v praxi 5/4 Na Židovské obci určuji, kdo může kandidovat za Svobodné 5/4 Může být být židovka facebookovou přítelkyní sympatizanta banderovců?

13 11/4 V Řádu iluminátů se prý satanističtí židé pojí se svými satanskými nežidovskými kolaboranty a svobodnými zednáři, tvrdí nová kniha 11/4 Oběti holocaustového terorismu 12/4 Rockefellerové: Svět patří nám 18/4 Diktatura humanity - Holocaust 19/4 Vina Židů za bohovraždu Ježíše Krista nesmí být zlehčována 23/4 Příběh Anny Frankové dokazuje, že holocaust neexistoval 27/4 Pravda o Putinovi 30/4 John Kerry měl pravdu, Izrael je zemí apartheidu 8/5 Podle židů je Panna Marie děvka a Ježíš Kristus sexuálně nevázaný bastard, který se vaří ve výkalech v pekle 14/4 Holocaust: Vyposlechněme si obě strany /5 Nebuďme tak tvrdí na Židovskou obec 17/5 Hamsun, Tolkien, árijství a příroda 13.

14 18/5 Eurovolby ve znamení Kehily? Děkujeme, nechceme 19/5 Roberta Faurisson Prominentní falešný židovský svědek Elie Wiesel 20/5 Výpis z četby (5): Osvětimský komplex 21/ , NE Bruselu: TOP 09 se bojí Národní demokracie. Chce ji zakázat a rozpustit 22/5 NE Bruselu Národní demokracie žádá odvolání Karla Schwarzenberga za jeho skandální přiznání /5 Volební prognóza 25/5 EU beztak slouží americkým a izraelským silám. Řízná rozhlasová debata s národovcem Bartošem, Johnem, Liškou a dalšími /5 Léon Degrelle Epos: Příběh Waffen SS 28/5 Není to rasistická židovská organizace v ČR? 30/5 Robert Faurisson: Proti holywoodismu revizionismem 31/5 Nenávidí Adam Benjamin Bartoš židy? 31/5 Židi do plynu 1/6 PŘEDNÁŠKY O HOLOCAUSTU GERMAR RUDOLF 14.

15 rudolf/ 3/6 Noční zatýkání I mučení elektřinou stale patří k dětství ve Svaté zemi 5/6 Palestinci žádají komplexní bojkot rasistického Izraele 7/6 Sláva a čest hrdinům z Normandie 9/6 Židovská obec varuje: počty nežidů nominovaných na Nobelovu cenu rapidně vzrostly 14/6 Antisemitismus v Evropě slábne navzdory tvrzení politiků a některých organizací. 14/6 Mark Weber - Světově proslulá kniha pamětníka holocaustu odhalena jako podvod 15/6 Petr Kalinovský: Bombardování Holocaustem: 68,9 % zasažení 16/6 Za tři unesené Izrael vraždil Palestince a bombardoval Ghazu 17/6 James Petras: High-tech + "lůza planety" = nový mocenský blok 18/6 Vandas je Židům ukradený, DSSS je mrtvá. Burcují proti Bartošovi. Právem? 8/6 Odposlouchávání a odposlouchávací techniky

16 18/6 Co vy na to, pane Žid? (1): Šéf exekutorů 18/6 Nejzažidovanější český film všech dob 21/6 ISM: Bojkot Dnů Jeruzaléma izraelská a palestinská reakce 21/6 Prohnilý Západ na pranýři. Recenze knihy Michaela Winklera 23/6 Pozvánka na workshop: Kulturní a akademický bojkot Izraele úvod do problematiky, pondělí 23. června od 19:00, Klubovna (Generála Píky, Praha 6) 24/6 Židia kabbalistickým rituálom zoslali kliatbu na jedného z ukrajinských oligarchov 18/6 Židovský plán nejen pro Blízký východ /6 Odpověď izraelskému ambasadorovi v ČR 29/6 Mise 2016: zničit antisemitismus 1/7 Světu je z Izraele a jeho šíleností zle 1/7 Izraelský vládný politik šokuje rasistickými vyjadreniami, masmédiá mlčia 1/7 Údery zednářským kladivem

17 6/7 Kolik lidí vlastně zemřelo v Osvětimi? 7/7 Svjatoslav porazil Chazarský kaganát. A co současný chazar Porošenko? 7/7 Židé a sionisté hlavní pákou zrodu ČSR 9/7 Izraelská jatka v Gaze pokračují 9/7 Pravda není lež, hlásání pravdy není antisemitismus 11/7 Veterán izraelskej kontrarozviedky Šabak: kolomijskij pripravuje na Ukrajine novú zasľubenú zem 11/7 Izraelská zákonodárkyně vyzývá ke genocidě Palestinců /7 Izrael se octl pod tlakem z USA, aby zastavil své vraždění Palestinců 11/7 Abbás: Izrael páchá genocidu 12/7 Skutečný příběh Gazy, který Izraelci neříkají 14/7 Izrael by měl být vymazán z mapy světa! 14/7 Izrael bombarduje Gazu, bourá domy, zabíjí - a říká tomu obrana - součást vyšetřování zmizení tří nezletilců 13/7 Sionismus v Izraeli opět zavraždil stovky Palestinců

18 14/7 Jednou větou: Izrael vs. Hamas, Kuttelwascher vs. neonácci 15/7 V zákulisí syčí plyn 15/7 Šest milionů tady, šest milionů tam, šest milionů, kam se podívám 17/7 Masakr palestinského lidu musí ihned skončit! 17/7 Žid podle Talmudu 20/7 Potvrzeno: Lidovky se přejmenují na Libidovky 21/7 Zas aní Rusáci! (Nebo někdo jiný?) 21/7 Izrael masakruje civilisty v Gaze 22/7 NE Bruselu Národní demokracie odsuzuje izraelskou agresi a žádá přehodnocení postoje ČR k židovskému státu 23/7 O vulgárním cynismu České televize a dalších záležitostech /7 ČR má nového velvyslance USA (jak jinak, než Žida) 24/7 Prohlášení komunistických organizací mládeže o nové izraelské genocidě vůči palestinskému lidu 15/7 Demonstrace v Praze volala po světě bez apartheidu

19 24/7 Totalita vs demokracie Kde žijeme my? 24/7 Agresor se staví do role oběti 25/7 Mf Dnes Obsah Židů: 45 % 25/7 Izrael a demokracie? Směšná představa 26/7 Poslanci ČR utužili víru ve válčícím Izraeli 26/7 Už 25 let jsme židovskou kolonií (a o našem českém úpadku) 25/7 Výročí smrti Dr. Williama Luthera Pierce /7 Svobodný odpor: Rabín o Gojimech (nežidech) část první 29/7 Dějiny židovského národa byly vymyšleny, aby vyhovovaly požadavkům sionismu 28/7 Hunští Chazaři zabíjejí Židy v Palestině! /7 Izrael stupňuje vraždění v Pásmu Gazy 31/7 Tajné archivy odhalují, jak Rusové vítali Němce 1/8 Zločin (Izrael) a trest (Rusko) 19.

20 4/8 Místopředseda Knessetu požaduje zřízení koncentračních táborů v Gaze 4/8 Rabín o Gojimech (nežidech) část druhá 7/8 Natočili snad Židé antisemitský vtipník? 8/8 Jak se Hitler vzepřel bankéřům 10/8 Mezi exekutory je zažidováno víc než mezi lichváři 12/8 Izrael jako lidské štíty používá také palestinské děti 13/8 Izrael prohrál válku 17/8 Nizozemec vrátil židovské ocenění 18/8 Ničenie v Gaze 19/8 Proč nemilujeme Izrael 21/8 Haifi: Islámský stát dílem sionistů 21/8 Další vraždění štve i Radu bezpečnosti 22/8 "Krestania" zase robia sionistom "křoví" 22/8 Alfred Rosenberg Spojené státy evropské? 20.