CARACAS, Venezuela - A Jewish rights group accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of making anti-Semitic comments in a Christmas Eve speech. The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center demanded an apology Wednesday from Chavez saying such remarks have long been used to persecute Jews.
CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Prominent Jewish rights group, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday of using what it said were anti-Semitic remarks and demanded an apology.
New Jersey investigators are searching for the vandal who spray-painted an anti-Semitic phrase on a Jewish businessman's truck. It happened in Jackson Township, Ocean County over the Chanukah holiday.
Outburst follows claim Deetjen is anti-Semitic. DEERFIELD BEACH -- City Manager Larry Deetjen's wife was escorted from a city meeting this week after shouting at a commissioner for encouraging a discussion over accusations her husband was a "closet anti-Semite."
CARACAS, Venezuela — A Jewish rights group accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of making anti-Semitic comments in a Christmas Eve speech. The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center demanded an apology Wednesday from Chavez saying such remarks have long been used to persecute Jews.
The Jewish News campaign to remove anti-semitic literature from online booksellers met with major success this week after WH Smith withdrew a number of titles from its catalogue.
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The Anti-Defamation League is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for new information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrators of an anti-Semitic hate crime.
In a BBC Radio 4 interview Sunday, the chief rabbi said globalization had led some people wrongly to see Israel as the cause of the world’s conflicts. But wars in Chechnya, Ossetia, Indonesia and the Philippines and Indonesia would be happening even if Israel did not exist.