Volume 4 No 2 - Journal for the Study of Antisemitism

2012] ANTISEMITIC INCIDENTS, JULY–DECEMBER 2012 371and relativism; conflating opposition to certain policies of Israel with blatantanti-Semitism; growing nationalistic movements that target ‘the other’;and traditional forms of anti-Semitism, such as conspiracy theories, acts ofdesecration and assault, ‘blood libel,’ and cartoons demonizing Jews,” thesummary said.Berlin, August 9: The Swiss World Peace Academy suspended Norway’speace researcher Johan Galtung because of his allegedly antisemitic comments.According to articles in the Swiss papers Mittelland Zeitung andBasler Zeitung, Galtung was booted from the Swiss Academy because of“reckless and offensive statements to questions that are specifically sensitivefor Jews.” The University of Basel is a partner organization of theSwiss.London, August 14: European rabbis said Tuesday that they were lobbyingApple Inc. to pull a mobile app version of The Protocols of the Elders ofZion, a notorious antisemitic forgery. The Conference of European Rabbis,which represents Orthodox Jewish congregations across the continent, saysit wants the iPhone manufacturer to stop selling an Arabic-language versionof The Protocols being offered through its iTunes service. “They wouldn’tallow pedophilia and pornography on their networks,” the Conference ofRabbis told The Associated Press. “They shouldn’t allow xenophobia,antisemitism, or racism.”Lima, August 20: A leader of a far-right political group in Peru said hewould like to expel the country’s small Jewish community because “theycontrol the global economy.” In an interview with the British newspaperThe Guardian, Martín Quispe Mayta, the leader of the Andean PeruNational Socialism movement, which is currently trying to collect enoughsignatures to register as a party, claimed that research he conducted foundthat Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara,and Abimael Guzmán, the leader of Peru’s Shining Path terror group, allhad Jewish roots. Mayta further claimed that Francisco Pizarro, the leaderof Spain’s brutal conquest of Peru, was also Jewish. “The Jew Pizarro andhis band of genocidal Jews killed millions of native Peruvians in their missionto possess our gold,” he told The Guardian.Óswiȩcim (Auschwitz), Poland, August 20: Grandchildren of Nazis, alongwith Holocaust survivors and their descendants, were among hundreds whobegan a week-long march across Poland Monday, traveling through formerNazi death camps. The symbolic march began at Auschwitz near Krakow insouthern Poland and wound up on Friday at Treblinka, 100 kilometers (65miles) northeast of the capital, Warsaw. Participants also planned to visit