Volume 4 No 2 - Journal for the Study of Antisemitism

2012] ANTISEMITIC INCIDENTS, JULY–DECEMBER 2012 377ence detailing the arrests of suspects in the recent bombing of a Jewishstore. Hollande was scheduled to meet with Jewish community leadersRichard Prasquier and Joel Mergui. Police carried out raids across Franceafter DNA found on a grenade that exploded last month at a kosher grocerystore led them to a suspected jihadist cell of young Frenchmen recentlyconverted to Islam.Atlanta, October 9: Emory University is finally acknowledging blatant discriminationagainst Jewish students who attended its dental school between1948 to 1961. The Jewish students were ordered to leave the school by thedean, who maintained that they had failed the classes. Soon, hardly anyJewish students attended the dental school, which had an application thatrequired applicants to check off “Caucasian, Jew or Other.” The saga ofbias at the Emory dental school is now a documentary, “From Silence toRecognition.” Before the premiere, held at Emory, the university will dosomething long overdue: President James Wagner will apologize to formerstudents at the dental school.Prague, October 10: The Czech Bar Association (CAK) imposed a one-yearprofessional ban on lawyer Petr Koci as he raised a bias objection to a courtexpert because he is of Jewish origin, CAK spokeswoman Iva Chaloupkováhas told journalists. “The decision has not taken effect and Koci can appealit,” she said.Lvov, Ukraine, October 12: A Jewish doctor was murdered on Saturday inhis house in Lviv. Dr. Leon Freifeld, 60, was a senior orthopedic surgeon, auniversity professor, and a prominent member of the Lviv community.Police arrested three suspects but have yet to establish a motive, Ukrainenews websites reported. A Russian-language Israeli website reported thatone of the suspects is an Arab man age 26, who was likely under the influenceof either drugs or alcohol.Paris, October 14: A Jewish man was attacked and rendered unconscious ina Paris metro in late September on the first night of Rosh Hashanah, a localwatchdog reported on this date. The 52-year-old victim entered the subwaydirectly from his synagogue but wore no markings that would identify himas Jewish, according to a report on the incident by the National Bureau ofVigilance Against Anti-Semitism. He may have been targeted because of abook on Jewish philosophy by the chief rabbi of Paris that he was readingin the metro when he was attacked, the report said. The attackers, who areunknown, knocked the man unconscious with a sharp blow to his temple,but did not steal anything from him as he lay unconscious on the subway