| June 11, 2009 | -
Chicago Reverend Jeremiah Wright claimed that he hadn't spoken with Barack Obama, his former parishioner, since Obama assumed the presidency, because “them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me.” Asked to explain what he meant by “them Jews,” Wright explained that he was referring only to “Zionists.”
| Source 1:
Daily Press
Source 2:
Politico.com
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| August 7, 2007 | - The public disclosure of Adolf Hitler's private record collection indicated that the Fuehrer enjoyed listening to Jewish musicians play Tchaikovsky.
| Source:
Guardian
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| April 3, 2007 | - Dr. Zahi Hawass of Egypt dismissed the Exodus story of the Jews as a “myth.”
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 29, 2007 | - A mob of Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem overpowered policemen and stole a woman's corpse to prevent an autopsy but later gave it back.
| Source:
news24.com
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| December 10, 2006 | -
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport removed fourteen Christmas trees after a local rabbi threatened a lawsuit if officials did not add an eight-foot menorah to the arrangement.
| Source:
Seattle Times
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| November 30, 2006 | - Conservative rabbis in Beverly Hills called for an end to the religious edict forbidding oral sex between men; anal congress, however, would still be forbidden.
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
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| November 29, 2006 | -
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote a letter to the American people claiming that Jews have inordinate control over international finance, media, and culture.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 11, 2006 | - Despite the objections of the Vatican, a gay rights rally was held in Jerusalem under the guard of nearly 3,000 police. Rabbi Yehuda Levin flew from Brooklyn to denounce the rally. “They are not,” said Levin, “being tolerant of our feelings.”
| Source:
The New York Times
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| September 20, 2006 | -
Virginia
Senator George Allen acknowledged his Jewish ancestry.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| September 5, 2006 | - An Orthodox Jewish man was removed from an Air Canada
flight because his praying made other passengers nervous.
| Source:
CBC
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| August 1, 2006 | - Naveed Afzal Haq, the man accused of an anti-Semitic shooting attack in Seattle, was described as a “hothead” with a “chip on his shoulder,” by his former boss, Thomas de Winter: “He didn't take instruction well.”
| Source:
UPI via Google News
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| July 28, 2006 | - Mel Gibson was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving. “Are you a Jew?” Gibson is reported to have asked a sheriff's deputy. “What do you think you're looking at, sugar tits?” he demanded of a female sergeant.
| Source:
TMZ
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| July 26, 2006 | -
Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, condemned Israel's military actions; Howard Dean called al-Maliki an “anti-Semite.”
| Source:
AP
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| April 17, 2006 | - The Iranian government promised to give $50 million to the Palestinian Authority, now controlled by Hamas, which let it be known that it would recognize Israel's right to exist if the Jewish state were to withdraw from the entire West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.
| Source 1:
CNN.com
Source 2:
Democracy Now!
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| February 27, 2006 | - In France far-right groups were criticized for serving pork soup to the poor with the intent of discriminating against observant Muslims and Jews. "We are all pig eaters!" chanted a crowd of soup activists. "We are all pig eaters!"
| Source:
The New York Times
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| February 19, 2006 | - Riots over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad continued around the world. In Nigeria 16 people were killed in rioting and 11 churches were burned; in Libya at least 10 people were killed; and in Pakistan at least 5 people were killed. In Volgograd, Russia, officials closed the city newspaper after it published a cartoon that showed Muhammad, Jesus, Moses, and Buddha watching TV together. Fifteen thousand people protested the cartoons in London. “We have to speak up,” said a Muslim demonstrator, “to prevent something like the Holocaust from happening.”
| Source 1:
CNN.com
Source 2:
The New York Times
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| January 11, 2006 | - A skinhead shouting “I will kill you” stabbed eight people at a Moscow
synagogue.
| Source:
BBC News
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| December 18, 2005 | -
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had a stroke. Palestinians celebrated Sharon's stroke and leaders of Kahane, the ultra-nationalist Jewish group, called on members to pray for the Prime Minister's death.
| Source:
Y Net News
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| November 29, 2005 | - In New York City, a defense contractor named David H. Brooks rented out two floors of the Rainbow Room for his daughter Elizabeth's bat mitzvah. Tom Petty, Kenny G, and members of Aerosmith performed, as did 50 Cent. The total cost of the party was reported as $10 million. “Go shorty,” rapped 50 Cent, “it's your bat mitzvah, we gonna party like it's your bat mitzvah.”
| Source:
New York Daily News
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| July 27, 2005 | - Ultra-nationalists in Israel held a “pulsa denura” ceremony to call on the angels of destruction to kill Ariel Sharon.
| Source:
Haaretz
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| May 22, 2005 | - Laura Bush went to Jerusalem, where she wore a black pantsuit and black shawl to the Dome of the Rock and the women's section of the Western Wall. “We commit ourselves,” she said, “to reject hatred and to teach tolerance and live in peace.” She was heckled by both Muslims and Jews.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 20, 2005 | - A rabbi had a fistfight with a man wearing a swastika
T-shirt in the Kansas City, Missouri, airport.
| Source:
Kansas.com
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| March 29, 2005 | - Noting their mutual hatred of Jews, a neo-Nazi in Florida called on Al Qaeda to join forces with the Aryan Nations.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| March 16, 2005 | - Evangelical Christians from the United States and ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel were working together to stop homosexuals from marching through Jerusalem.
| Source:
Haaretz
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| October 21, 2004 | - Some Israeli rabbis were calling on soldiers to disobey orders if they are told to expel settlers from the Gaza Strip.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 30, 2004 | - A Jewish man was arrested in France for setting fire to a Jewish community center and painting swastikas on the walls.
| Source:
BBC
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| January 23, 2004 | - An American diplomat in London declared that referring to the American Jewish lobby is anti-Semitic.
| Source:
Independent
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