JOURNALfor the STUDYof ANTISEMITISM

2011] ANTISEMITIC INCIDENTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD 25
antisemitic threats. “My family have been very upset by recent events and I
feel that it would therefore be better not to stand for re-election at the end of
the year,” said Sen. Freddie Cohen, who is also the island’s planning minister;
he was quoted on June 7 by the London Jewish Chronicle. Cohen and
his family received antisemitic threats after the Jersey Evening Post criticized
one of his decisions. Cohen is a past president of the island’s 65family
Jewish community. Jersey was the sole British territory occupied by
Nazis during World War II.
Rome, June 14: On the day of Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Rome, a
member of the capital’s Jewish community, Raffi Coen, was stabbed
through the heart. Coen was 74 years old and well loved in the Jewish
community. The murderer did not steal his money, so there must be some
other motive for the crime. Over the last few days in Italy there have been
some disturbing episodes of propaganda against Jews and Israel, over
Netanyahu’s visit, but also because of the “Unexpected Israel” festival in
Milan. There may well be antisemitic motives surrounding this tragedy, and
it is feared that the authorities will not take into account the hypothesis of
racist murder, because that is their usual policy when such crimes are suspected.
We believe a commitment against antisemitism (often in the form of
exasperated anti-Zionism) is one of the top priorities in Italy and throughout
the EU.
Jerusalem, June 22: Jews and Israelis, or passengers carrying any non-
Islamic article of faith, will not be able to fly code-share flights from the
United States to Saudi Arabia under Delta Air Line’s new partnership with
Saudi Arabian Airlines, which is set to begin in 2012. Although Delta
announced in January that the Saudi airline would join its SkyTeam network
next year, the implications of the deal only came to light recently,
according to people who have scrutinized the details. Saudi Arabia bans
anyone with an Israeli stamp in his or her passport from entering the country,
even in transit. Many Jews believe the kingdom has also withheld visas
from travelers with Jewish-sounding names.
Oslo, June 22: Earlier this month, a survey by the Oslo municipality found
that 33% of Jewish students in the town are physically threatened or abused
by other high school teens at least two to three times a month. The group
that suffered the next highest amount of bullying was Buddhists at 10%.
“Others” were at 7% and Muslims at 5.3%. Furthermore, the survey found
that 51% of high school students consider “Jew” a negative expression and
60% had heard other students use the term.