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Judaism

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Aug 2005Chance that a German says Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is the same “in principle” as how Nazis treated Jews : 1 in 2
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Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt und Gewaltforschung (Bielefeld, Germany)

Aug 2005Factor by which the unemployment rate among Jewish immigrants to Germany exceeds the national average : 3.5
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Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum (Potsdam, Germany)

Mar 2005Year in which Germany offered “right of return” to Jews persecuted there: 1949
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German Consulate General (N.Y.C.)

Mar 2004Ratio of the number of bias crimes against Jews to those against Muslims reported in the U.S. in 2002 : 6:1
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Federal Bureau of Investigation (Washington)

Nov 2003Average percentage of the Jewish vote won by the Democratic presidential candidate in the 1980s: 59
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Voter News Service (Brooklyn)

Oct 2003Percentage of Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Gaza who say they would relocate if compensated : 83
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Peace Now (Tel Aviv)

Sep 2002Number of Jewish immigrants Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in June that he wants to attract to Israel: 1,000,000
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Embassy of Israel (Washington)

Aug 2001Age at which Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon enlisted in an underground Jewish paramilitary group in Palestine: 14
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Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Jerusalem)

May 2001Fine that Israel imposed on a Jewish settler in January for clubbing an 11-year-old Palestinian boy to death: $17,500
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Consulate-General of Israel (N.Y.C.)

Apr 2001Estimated percentage of immigrants to Israel from former Soviet states since 1998 who were not Jewish by birth: 60
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Consulate-General of Israel (N.Y.C.)

Jan 2001Ratio of public housing units built in Jewish communities in Israel since 1975 to those built in Arab communities: 337:1
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Ben Gurion University (Be'er-Sheva, Israel)

Oct 1999Number of times CBS's press release forJesus, the miniseries, mentions or implies that He was Jewish: 0
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CBS (N.Y.C.)

Jan 1999Chance that a Jewish Jerusalemite agrees that sovereignty over the city's holy sites “ultimately belongs to God”: 1 in 3
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Professor Jerome M. Segal, University of Maryland (College Park)

Sep 1998Percentage of Jerusalem's Jewish population that is ultra-Orthodox: 30
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Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies (Jerusalem)

Sep 1998Percentage of Jerusalem's Jewish kindergarteners who areultra-Orthodox: 52
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Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies (Jerusalem)

Jul 1998Percentage of last year's campers at Vermont's ten-day International Summer Institute for Youth in Holocaust Studies camp who were Jewish: 8
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Parents, Teachers &Students for Social Responsibility (Montpelier, Vt.)

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.”
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Daily Press

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Politico.com

August 7, 2007The public disclosure of Adolf Hitler's private record collection indicated that the Fuehrer enjoyed listening to Jewish musicians play Tchaikovsky.
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Guardian

April 3, 2007Dr. Zahi Hawass of Egypt dismissed the Exodus story of the Jews as a “myth.”
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New York Times

January 29, 2007A mob of Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem overpowered policemen and stole a woman's corpse to prevent an autopsy but later gave it back.
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news24.com

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.
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Seattle Times

November 30, 2006Conservative rabbis in Beverly Hills called for an end to the religious edict forbidding oral sex between men; anal congress, however, would still be forbidden.
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Los Angeles Times

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.
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New York Times

November 11, 2006Despite 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.”
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The New York Times

September 20, 2006 Virginia Senator George Allen acknowledged his Jewish ancestry.
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Washington Post

September 5, 2006An Orthodox Jewish man was removed from an Air Canada flight because his praying made other passengers nervous.
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CBC

August 1, 2006Naveed 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.”
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UPI via Google News

July 28, 2006Mel 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.
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TMZ

July 26, 2006 Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, condemned Israel's military actions; Howard Dean called al-Maliki an “anti-Semite.”
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AP

April 17, 2006The 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.
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CNN.com

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Democracy Now!

February 27, 2006In 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!"
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The New York Times

February 19, 2006Riots 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.”
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CNN.com

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The New York Times

January 11, 2006A skinhead shouting “I will kill you” stabbed eight people at a Moscow synagogue.
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BBC News

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.
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Y Net News

November 29, 2005In 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.”
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New York Daily News

July 27, 2005Ultra-nationalists in Israel held a “pulsa denura” ceremony to call on the angels of destruction to kill Ariel Sharon.
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Haaretz

May 22, 2005Laura 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.
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New York Times

April 20, 2005A rabbi had a fistfight with a man wearing a swastika T-shirt in the Kansas City, Missouri, airport.
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Kansas.com

March 29, 2005Noting their mutual hatred of Jews, a neo-Nazi in Florida called on Al Qaeda to join forces with the Aryan Nations.
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CNN.com

March 16, 2005Evangelical Christians from the United States and ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel were working together to stop homosexuals from marching through Jerusalem.
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Haaretz

October 21, 2004Some Israeli rabbis were calling on soldiers to disobey orders if they are told to expel settlers from the Gaza Strip.
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New York Times

August 30, 2004A Jewish man was arrested in France for setting fire to a Jewish community center and painting swastikas on the walls.
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BBC

January 23, 2004An American diplomat in London declared that referring to the American Jewish lobby is anti-Semitic.
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Independent


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