Published: 25 August 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Attack on Austrian Jewish leader denounced (Deutsche Welle)
Top Austrian politicians have spoken out after the head of Graz's Jewish community was attacked with a wooden club. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said authorities would "do everything to bring the perpetrator to justice"
Holocaust denial graffitied at site of Nazi massacre in France (Guardian)
Justice minister vows to ‘find and judge’ vandals who defaced Oradour-sur-Glane
Vandals have scrawled graffiti denying the Holocaust on a wall in the village that was the site of the Nazis’ biggest massacre of civilians in France during the second world war.
Officials in Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges in central France, put up a tarpaulin to cover the graffiti discovered on Friday on the wall at the entrance to the Centre de la Mémoire (Centre for Remembrance). The word “lie” was scrawled on the wall, along with other graffiti, according to the regional paper Le Populaire du Centre. The inscription “Village Martyr” was crossed out.
‘Jews Want A Race War’ sign hung on busy Los Angeles highway overpass (JTA)
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On August 14, neo-Nazis apparently burned an Israeli-owned bar called "Morgen wird besser" (Tomorrow will be better) in the Lichtenberg neighbourhood in Berlin. The Star of David was engraved on the spot by the criminals.
According to a report in the Der Tagespiegel, the alarm went off at 6.20pm and residents called police. No one was injured (there are apartments above the bar). According to the testimonies, the owner of the place has received threats in the past, and even spray-painted antisemitic graffiti. A demonstration took place in Berlin on August 18 against the attack, led by journalist Ze’ev Avrahami and other Israelis in Berlin.
Police said they are investigating the attack, and that the Interior security of the State Department is also investigating whether there was a political motive. This is the fourth arson attack on the place in several years.
More than 30 headstones damaged at South African Jewish cemetery (Jerusalem Post)
The vandalism at the Oudtshoorn Jewish cemetery, located about 320km east of Cape Town, is the first major incident of its kind there
Photo: Graffiti tags are seen on the lettering at the entrance to the Centre of Oradour sur Glane Memory (Pascal Lachenaud/AFP)
