The incidents include swastika graffiti on the walls of synagogues, and verbal and physical abuse...One Russian Oleh says he has documented more than 500 cases of Russian anti-Semitic acts in Israel in the past year. Out of one million Olim, this represents a tiny minority -- but perhaps it's time the Jewish Agency started being a little more discriminating with the people they are encouraging to make Aliya?
[T]he Israeli Attorney General launched a criminal investigation into a neo-Nazi website which called itself the White Israeli Union, after pictures appeared of a man in an Israeli army uniform with his arm raised in a "Heil Hitler" salute.
But since then, other Russian language websites with similar content have appeared, with tasteless jokes about Jewish people and Holocaust denials.
Thursday, November 25, 2004
Russian anti-Semitism -- in Israel
The BBC reports on the Russian Olim returning to the FSU -- which I already discussed, here -- and points out another interesting phenomenon: the rise in anti-Semitism in Israel, coming mainly from non-Jewish Russian Olim:
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