Volume 4 No 2 - Journal for the Study of Antisemitism

376 JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF ANTISEMITISM [ VOL. 4:367first- and second-generation Muslim immigrants, who make up 30 to 40percent of Malmo’s population of 300,000. Many of Malmo’s Muslims arePalestinian.OCTOBERBudapest, October 6: Police said they had arrested two men after the presidentof a local branch of the Budapest Jewish Faith Community, AndrésKerényi, was verbally and physically assaulted after leaving a synagogue inthe late evening, according to a statement on the Budapest police website.According to the news agency AFP, the men were later detained andcharged with violent assault against a member of a communitygroup. Gusztav Zoltai, the director of the Alliance of Hungarian JewishFaith Communities, told Hungarian state news agency MTI that Kerényiwas kicked in the stomach by the assailants, who shouted “Rotten filthyJews, you will all die.”Toronto, October 7: A founder of the Free Gaza Movement last week mistakenly—andpublicly—revealed herself to be a Holocaust revisionist.Greta Berlin, who co-founded the US-based group in 2006, posted a September30 Twitter comment to @freegazaorg, the group’s official feed, thatread: “Zionists operated the concentration camps and helped murder millionsof innocent Jews.” The post also contained a link to a video of aspeech by Eustace Mullins, a noted antisemitic conspiracy theorist who diedin 2010, claiming that the word “Nazi” is an amalgam of the words“National socialism” and “Zionist,” and that Adolf Hitler and Europe’sZionists conspired together to eradicate non-Zionist Jews. Although shelater deleted the post, Berlin apologized for having made it public, statingthat the message had been intended only for people on her personalFacebook list. “Facebook attached the [Facebook twitter] account to mypersonal account. It should have gone to the [Facebook] account. My apologies,”she told the National Post. “I shared it without watching it. I am sorrythat I just sent it forward without looking at it. It won’t happen again,” reada tweet from the Free Gaza Movement account, posted October 3.Paris, October 7: French president François Hollande met with leaders ofthe country’s Jewish community after blank bullets were fired on a synagoguewest of Paris, and amid renewed concerns about antisemitism inFrance. A representative of the synagogue, which is in the Paris suburb ofArgenteuil, says the building was targeted Saturday night and services werecanceled. The representative, who spoke on condition of anonymity becausea police investigation is under way, said no one was hurt in the incident.According to the security unit of France’s Jewish communities, SPCJ, theshots were fired hours after the city’s chief prosecutor gave a news confer-