December 2020: Antisemitism in review 07 Jan 2021 share this on
When: 5 December
Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina
What: Among several hateful and antisemitic posts on Twitter were tweets mocking circumcision, others referencing the antisemitic stereotype of Jews being cheap, and yet others using a slang expression referring to the idea of killing Jews to make soap during the Holocaust.
Responding to the controversy the WJC-affiliated Delegation of Israelite Associations of Argentina (DAIA) tweeted: “The hatred and racism referring to different groups reveals the contempt for equality and human diversity from who today is one of the representatives of Argentina.”
Despite the derogatory tweets, only two days after being suspended, the players were reinstated following pressure from the national team and other Argentine rugby clubs. Click here to read more.
The Halle attack shook Germany. On October 9 last year, Stephan Baillet attempted to blast his way into the city s synagogue,where 51 people were observing Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. He failed largely because his arsenal of homemade firearms and explosives couldn t breach the locked outer gates.
In frustration, he shot dead two other people.
Federal Prosecutor, Kai Lohse, emphasized that the assailant ‘’attacked Jewish life in Germany as a whole’’ and that the rampage was a product of his ‘’racist, xenophobic and antisemitic ideology.’’
“I commend the German justice system for imposing the harshest possible sentence on a heartless, vicious antisemite who attempted to murder Jews in a synagogue on the holiest day of the Jewish year, and took the lives of two innocent people who happened to be in his way,’’ said World Jewish Congress President Ronald S.Lauder after a German court sentenced to life in prison a far-right extremist who
Stephan Balliet, 28, sentenced to life in German prison over synagogue attack
Balliet shot dead two people on the street after trying and failing to break into synagogue in Halle during the holiday of Yom Kippur to carry out a massacre
He admitted trying to attack synagogue during trial, calling Jews my enemies
Balliet apologised for killing one passer-by, because I didn t want to kill whites
GERMANY sentenced anti-semitic murderer Stephan Balliet to life in prison today after a five-month trial.
Balliet was convicted of two counts of murder and 51 counts of attempted murder for his actions on October 9, 2019, when he attacked a synagogue in the city of Halle in Saxony-Anhalt on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, broadcasting himself live on a gaming site.
After his attempt to shoot open the synagogue’s doors failed he shot and killed Jana Lange, a passing woman who challenged him over the noise he was making, and then went to a kebab shop and killed a construction worker named as Kevin S.