Global News Archives

October 2006

31 October

Muslim clerics' remarks on women cause outrage in Australia	Polish police discover large number of neo-Nazi music CDs	Controversy in Germany on whether Borat movie is racist

30 October

Israel objects to delegation including Le Pen daughter	Israeli FM scraps Qatar visit over Hamas at UN conference	Arizona lawmaker sorry for sending anti-Semitic e-mail

26 October

Ukrainian prime minister vows to fight anti-Semitism	350 years of Jewish settlement in Jamaica to be celebrated	Shanghai as WWII safe haven for Jews exhibition opens in Warsaw

25 October

Stark rise in racist and anti-Semitic acts in Germany	Holocaust survivor and educator Benjamin Meed dies at 88	Argentine woman fined for refusal to let apartment to Jews

Austrian database lists artworks looted by Nazis	Californian residents unhappy about Orthodox 'eruv' plan	Belarus police won't investigate graveyard vandals

24 October

Israeli PM wants Iranian leadership isolated internationally	Frenchman fined over hate mail to Jewish organizations	Vandals desecrate Jewish graveyard in Czech Republic

Jewish-owned gallery in Moscow vandalized	First Reform rabbi in Poland since World War II	Californian congregation fights rejection of synagogue expansion

23 October

German city opens new Jewish community center	Sixteen neo-Nazis arrested at rally in Berlin	Restitution campaign for Jewish refugees from Arab countries

20 October

London's mayor cleared over anti-Semitic comments	Centennial of Moscow Choral Synagogue celebrated	Norwegian neo-Nazi leader convicted for anti-Semitic slur

19 October

Former Nazi camp guard freed as US authorities fail to deport him	Iran tops the agenda as Russia and Israel mark 15yrs of relations	Spielberg presents documentary film on 1941 Babi Yar massacre

18 October

Iranian President threatens "defeat of the West"	Classification of Kahane Chai as terrorist organization upheld	Jewish man attacked in Australia by soccer players

17 October

EU supports further OSCE anti-Semitism forum in 2007	Holocaust conference held in Moldova	Protests in Russian city about a pub named after Hitler

16 October

Increasingly heated debate in the UK about the Muslim veil	Nuremberg neo-Nazi march met by thousands of protestors	National Jewish court to be created in France

13 October

Religious minorities in Geneva lobbying for own cemeteries	Pope calls for religions to cooperate more closely	German student forced to wear sign with Nazi slogan

12 October

Exhibition on Nazi racial policies opens in Dresden	Arizona lawmaker criticized for anti-Semitic and racist statements	UK government wants Muslims to stand up to extremists

US Supreme Court allows deportation of former Nazi guard	Romania seeks more awareness on its Holocaust complicity	Statue to Jewish children's WWII plight unveiled in London

11 October

Israel presses for sanctions against Iran	Peres invites Syrian leader to Jerusalem to talk peace	Authors claim "Jewish fundamentalists" block NY lectures

10 October

Polish Righteous Gentile nominated for Nobel Prize	South Korean nominated as the next UN secretary-general	Polish study proves Nazis used human bodies to produce soap

09 October

New anti-Muhammad cartoons in Denmark	Xenophobic party makes small gains in Belgian local elections	London mayor's suspension from office overturned by judge

06 October

Evangelical Christians and Jews celebrate Sukkot together	Czech Islamists reportedly planned murder of dozens of Jews	Turkey: German chancellor advocates dialogue with Muslims

05 October

Extreme right Belgian party wants Jewish support to battle Islam	US Synagogue receives $5m donation from individual	London police officer's refusal to guard Israeli embassy queried

04 October

States in the USA to honor Raoul Wallenberg	Remains of medieval Jewish cemetery found in Czech city	London mayor fights suspension over remark to Jewish reporter

03 October

Rival far-right parties do well in Austrian election	Ban Ki-Moon of South Korea likely to succeed Kofi Annan as UN chief	UK baroness to be investigated for anti-Jewish remarks