Volume 4 No 2 - Journal for the Study of Antisemitism

Antisemitic Incidents from Around the World,July–December 2012A Selected ListDesecrated Jewish graves in Vienna, July 2, 2012JULYVienna, July 2: A police statement said that tombstones and slabs werefound toppled or damaged at the cemetery, but noted that the vandals didnot deface the graves with graffiti. A statement from Austria’s Jewish communityon Friday said it was “deeply affected” by the vandalism of thegraves, which included those of a number of people killed during WorldWar II. Vienna Jewish community head Oskar Deutsch says he is confidentthat police will find the culprits. Police said they were trying to track downwho was responsible.Madrid, July 5: Online antisemitism in Spain doubled in volume last year,according to a Spanish Jewish community monitor. In a report on antisemitismin Spain in 2011, the Observatory on Anti-Semitism in that countrycounted more than 1,000 antisemitic sites and Web pages that it said werecreated in Spain. In 2010, the observatory counted 400 such sites.Budapest, July 5: Hungary’s Jews had an ironic appreciation of the newsthat a leader of the country’s notoriously antisemitic, anti-Roma Jobbikparty is technically Jewish—and the grandson of an Auschwitz survivor.Csanád Szegedi, a Jobbik regional leader and member of the European Parliament,revealed his roots in an interview last week with Jobbik’s extremerightdaily Barikad. Jobbik won nearly 17 percent of the vote in the 2010general elections to become Hungary’s third largest party.Paris, July 5: A French judge has ruled that the antisemitic motive of twoArabs who attacked a Jewish student of the Otzar Hatorah school in Tou-367