December 4, 2009
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The Peace of Jerusalem as it relates to the Christmas Story
Today we are going to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. I will share too how this prayer correlates with The Christmas story. (I may not get time to share it all due to the special open pulpits and time of communion which is why I emailed the sermon to you. Perhaps there will be another service in which I can share more…)
Isa 62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,7 And give him no rest , till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
The Christmas Story INLCUDES the fact that Jesus will sit on David’s throne in a never ending kingdom. When this happens, Jerusalem will be at peace forever.
The prophetic word to Mary : Luke 1: 29 Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. 30 But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. 31 You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end."
Zechariah emphasized that same truth, i.e., the coming “horn of salvation …in the house of …David”: Luke 1:67 His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied: 68 "Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come and has redeemed his people. 69 He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David 70(as he said through his holy prophets of long ago), 71 salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us— 72 to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant, 73 the oath he swore to our father Abraham: 74 to rescue us from the hand of our enemies, and to enable us to serve him without fear 75 in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
Luke 1: 69 & 70 refers to the what the prophets of old said. One such prophet was Zechariah: Zech 2:10 "Shout and be glad, O Daughter of Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you," declares the LORD. 11 "Many nations will be joined with the LORD in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me to you. 12 The LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem. 13 Be still before the LORD, all mankind, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling."
Zeph 3:14 Sing, O Daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusalem! 15 The LORD has taken away your punishment, he has turned back your enemy. The LORD, the King of Israel, is with you; never again will you fear any harm. 16 On that day they will say to Jerusalem, "Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands hang limp. 17 The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing."
18 "The sorrows for the appointed feasts I will remove from you; they are a burden and a reproach to you. 19 At that time I will deal with all who oppressed you; I will rescue the lame and gather those who have been scattered. I will give them praise and honor in every land where they were put to shame. 20 At that time I will gather you; at that time I will bring you home. I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth when I restore your fortunes before your very eyes," says the LORD.
Zech 14: 9 The LORD will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one LORD, and his name the only name. 10 The whole land, from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem, will become like the Arabah. But Jerusalem will be raised up and remain in its place, from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses. 11 It will be inhabited; never again will it be destroyed. Jerusalem will be secure. {I.e., finally the “peace of Jerusalem “ will be a reality!RB}
Isaiah also prophesied about the day of the Lord bringing salvation to His people: Isa 40:9 You who bring good tidings to Zion,go up on a high mountain.You who bring good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with a shout,lift it up, do not be afraid;say to the towns of Judah,"Here is your God!" 10 See, the Sovereign LORD comes with power,and his arm rules for him.See, his reward is with him,and his recompense accompanies him. 11 He tends his flock like a shepherd:He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart;he gently leads those that have young.
Isa 62:11 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
Jesus is the one who returns with “rewards”:
Rev 22:12 "Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. ….16 "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star."
17 The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.
Isa 25:6 On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine — the best of meats and the finest of wines. 7 On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples,the sheet that covers all nations; 8 he will swallow up death forever.The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears
from all faces;he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth. The LORD has spoken. 9 In that day they will say, “Surely this is our God;we trusted in him, and he saved us.This is the LORD, we trusted in him;let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation."
Jesus Christ brings salvation when He comes again to those who are waiting for Him:. Heb 9:28 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
Isa 35:3 Strengthen the feeble hands,steady the knees that give way; 4 say to those with fearful hearts,"Be strong, do not fear;your God will come,he will come with vengeance;with divine retribution he will come to save you." …………10 and the ransomed of the LORD will return.They will enter Zion with singing;everlasting joy will crown their heads.Gladness and joy will overtake them,and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
We are to WANT Him to come!
Rev 22:20 He who testifies to these things says, "Yes, I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus .
We are not to be among the enemies of Israel today -- God will punish those people! When Jesus returns Israel’s enemies and those who divided the land of Israel will be punished: Joel 3:1 'In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning my inheritance, my people Israel, for they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.
Jer 12:14 This is what the LORD says: "As for all my wicked neighbors who seize the inheritance I gave my people Israel, I will uproot them from their lands and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them. 15 But after I uproot them, I will again have compassion and will bring each of them back to his own inheritance and his own country. 16 And if they learn well the ways of my people and swear by my name, saying, 'As surely as the LORD lives' — even as they once taught my people to swear by Baal — then they will be established among my people. 17 But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and destroy it," declares the LORD.
The peace of Jerusalem -- for which we are to continually pray – will be put in place when the Lord returns!
Jesus is the seed of Abraham to whom the land, the throne, and the people will be given!
Jesus will save Israel from all her enemies . He will bring peace to Jerusalem; He will enable us to “serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all our days”.That prophetic message is a major part of the “Christmas story”.
Luke 1:67 His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied: 68 "Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come and has redeemed his people. 69 He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David 70(as he said through his holy prophets of long ago), 71 salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us— 72 to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant, 73 the oath he swore to our father Abraham: 74 to rescue us from the hand of our enemies, and to enable us to serve him without fear 75 in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
We can clearly see that Israel has enemies today! Pray that we stand AGAINST all of Israel’s enemies today and pray that we don’t agree with the world community on dividing her land:
The following news notes were taken from a “Bridges for Peace” email . I wrote the prayer requests:
News: Defiant Iran Plans 10 More Nuke Facilities : Iran responded to international condemnation of their nuclear program with defiance on Sunday [November 29], announcing plans to build 10 new nuclear enrichment facilities, according to the New York Times. The newspaper, citing Iranian state television, said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s cabinet voted to start building five new enrichment facilities and find locations for five more.
Pray that the world community rises up in condemnation of the Iranian nuclear advancement as well as the blatantly hateful and destructive speeches that their president makes against Israel and the USA. Pray that God Himself miraculously destroys all of the Iranian plans to destroy us and Israel as well as shutting the mouth of those making hate speeches. Pray that just elections take place there and that the people who want peace will prevail in that country!
News: EU Draft Document Calls for Division of Jerusalem : For the first time, official European Union policy calling for East Jerusalem to be the capital of a Palestinian state could be endorsed early next week, according to a draft document obtained by the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz. The document could still undergo changes, although European diplomats told Ha’aretz the division of Jerusalem was expected to remain in the policy statement. …Israel is critiqued in the draft for discrimination of Palestinians in Jerusalem….
Pray that the Israelis stand firm in their refusal to divide Jerusalem and that Bible believing officials from all over the world stand up in agreement with them! Pray that we not be the people, the USA, in our generation to betray the Jews in Israel by demanding they divide Jerusalem.
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Enemies of Israel and of the Jewish people: When I read in Luke 1 "69 He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David 70(as he said through his holy prophets of long ago), 71 salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us— 72 to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant, 73 the oath he swore to our father Abraham: 74 to rescue us from the hand of our enemies, and to enable us to serve him without fear 75 in holiness and righteousness before him all our days. " , I think of the Romans who occupied Jerusalem at the time that was written or other nations that had come against Israel over time; however, if we read the history of anti semitism over the centuries we see a supernatural hatred of the Jews repeating itself !! Hitler, of course, comes to mind;however, long before Hitler there were horrific crimes against the Jews as a people! But what about today? If you did a huge internet search for present day Hitler followers, radical Muslim Jew haters, and other key words implying persecution of the Jews, you would discover that there still remains a supernatural hatred against the Jews!
The following things I found tonight on the internet are some examples. The Fla incident that follows actually occurred while we were recently in Florida!
Ten School Children Suspended for “Kick a Jew Day” in Florida School
Dear Rosemary,
We expect anti-Semitism to rear its ugly head in the radical Islamic madrassas of Iran and Saudi Arabia. We’ve grown accustomed to the pictures of Palestinian school children chanting “death to Israel.” We’ve learned by bitter experience that hatred of the Jewish people is not a thing of the past. We don’t expect to find it right here in America…but it is growing.
Ten middle school students in Naples, Florida, were suspended after taking part in what they called “Kick a Jew Day.” School authorities assured worried parents that they were taking the incident seriously and would institute “sensitivity training” and encourage students not to be bullies. “You have Jewish students being singled out, harassed and assaulted,” David Barkey of the Florida Anti-Defamation League told the Naples Daily News. And Rabbi James Perman, of Temple Shalom in North Naples, called the situation “alarming.”
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Hatred for the Jewish people is a looming threat, but together we can stand against this great evil. Together we can pray for God’s protection and peace for Israel and America. And together we can make a real difference for Jewish children suffering great danger and hardship during this holiday season.
November 16, 2009
TORONTO (JTA) — A series of anti-Semitic attacks has rocked the Calgary Jewish community.
Over the weekend, anti-Jewish slogans were spray-painted on several Jewish facilities and a Holocaust monument in the western Canadian city. A Jewish family also was targeted.
Hate messages were painted on the Calgary Jewish Centre, the Holocaust war memorial and at least one synagogue, all in the city’s southwest region. The graffiti also were found on fences, bus stops and mailboxes down the street.
The messages included swastikas and epithets such as “Kill Jews” and “6 million more.”
“This is a hate crime,” Adam Singer, community relations chair for the Calgary Jewish Centre, told a local radio station. “And the timing is quite disturbing, coming at the time of a very somber memorial within our community. Kristallnacht was almost 71 years ago exactly.”
Investigators are reviewing video surveillance tapes and believe they are looking for at least two suspects. A local television station reported that the incidents are being treated as hate crimes.
Singer said he was “horrified” by the attacks.
“These are expressions and words that we had hoped had been relegated to the dust bins of history,” he said.
Calgary, located in the Canadian province of Alberta, has a Jewish population of 8,000.
Here is a list of other anti semitic acts that were reported in 2009 -- I actually deleted some so the list would not be so long; however, I am ready to go to bed now so you can copy /paste this whole sermon onto a word processor and then delete whatever you want to delete:
May 17, 2009 - Buenos Aires - At least three people and a police officer were injured in a violent attack against a crowd celebrating Israel's anniversary. Members of Argentina's Jewish community were confronted by a gang of youths who were armed with clubs, knives and other weapons. The following day, two synagogues in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Belgrano received bomb threats.
April 21, 2009 - Buenos Aires - An ancient Jewish cemetery was defaced on the Holocaust Remembrance Day. Vandals painted swastikas and crossed-out Stars of David on walls.
August 17, 2009 – Sydney – The number “88” – shorthand for “Heil Hitler” and a common calling card of racists – was painted on the home and footpath of Eric Roozendaal, the treasurer of New South Wales, who is known for speaking out against right-wing extremist groups.
January 5, 2009 - Melbourne - A synagogue was defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti.
July 31, 2009 - Brest – Anti-Semitic epithets and a swastika were spray-painted on a Holocaust memorial.
May 9, 2009 - Brest - A Holocaust memorial was set on fire on the day commemorated as Victory Day over the Nazis.
July 5, 2009 – Antwerp – A car slowed down next to an identifiably Orthodox Jew who was walking on the sidewalk and the driver spit on him. The victim noted the license plate and reported the incident to police
June 11, 2009 - Antwerp - A group of Arab teenagers threw rocks at children of the Belzer Hasidic community.
April 28, 2009 - Antwerp - A rabbi from Lyon, France, was insulted by a taxi driver. After the rabbi entered the car, the driver opened all the windows and said that there is a microbe in his car and that he should be wearing a mask.
April 21, 2009 - Antwerp - A 78-year-old Orthodox Jewish man was attacked and pushed to the ground. Witnesses tried to catch the perpetrator, but were unsuccessful. The victim was briefly hospitalized.
March 3, 2009 - Antwerp - Four Jewish men from the Belzer Hasidic community were attacked while walking down the street. The assailant hit them with a metal bar and screamed in Arabic “Allah Akhbar!” All four victims were hospitalized.
January 14, 2009 - Schaerbeek - Cobblestones were thrown at a synagogue, but did not cause any permanent damage.
January 7, 2009 - Charleroi - A synagogue was spray-painted with the words “Hezbollah,” “Israel,” and “Death.”
January 6, 2009 - Schaerbeek - Four Molotov cocktails were thrown at a synagogue.
January 5, 2009 - Charleroi - Rocks were thrown at a synagogue.
January 5, 2009 - Forest - A Molotov cocktail was thrown at a synagogue.
January 4, 2009 - Antwerp - Belgian Jewish leaders say they have received dozens of death threats.
January 4, 2009 - Anderlecht - A brick and eggs were thrown at a Jewish school.
January 3, 2009 - Antwerp - Arson was attempted against a Jewish home.
July 13, 2009 – Burgas – The doors of a synagogue and the facade of a Jewish community center were simultaneously set on fire. The fire caused minor damage to both buildings.
November 14-15, 2009 – Calgary, Alberta – Several Jewish buildings, including two synagogues and a Holocaust monument, were vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti, including swastikas and slogans such as “Kill Jews” and “6 million more.” Anti-Jewish graffiti was also discovered on bus stops, fences and mailboxes nearby.
October 21, 2009 Ottawa – Vandals desecrated the Jewish Memorial Gardens near Greely, painting swastikas and anti-Semitic epithets on eight headstones and on the entrance to the burial grounds.
September 8, 2009 – Marseille – A local Jewish school, ORT Bramson High School, was attacked by vandals who threw aerosol cans soaked with flammable liquid at the school building. Nearly 400 students were in the building at the time of the attack, but none were injured.
September 8, 2009 – Marseille – A local Jewish school, ORT Bramson High School, was attacked by vandals who threw aerosol cans soaked with flammable liquid at the school building. Nearly 400 students were in the building at the time of the attack, but none were injured.
July 1, 2009 – Lannion – Many residents received leaflets containing anti-Semitic language in their mailboxes. The mayor urged the police to find those responsible as quickly as possible.
April 11, 2009 – Drancy – A five-foot black swastika and several anti-Semitic slogans were painted on a railway wagon that was used to deport French Jews. Two other large swastikas were daubed on a commemorative monument and on the wall of a nearby shop.
March 9, 2009 - Creteil - An 18 year old Jewish youth, wearing a yarmulke, was attacked by three strangers on his way to synagogue for Purim. They threw objects at him, including a jar of mustard that struck him on the head. The resulting injuries required stitches. The victim was able to provide description of his attackers to the police who apprehended them.
January 24, 2009 - Paris - A kosher supermarket's warehouse was firebombed, causing a major fire in the eastern Paris suburb of Montreuil. An unused Molotov cocktail was found at the scene.
January 17, 2009 - Creteil - Two 16-year-old Jews were beaten in front of a kosher restaurant by a gang that shouted “Palestine will win, dirty Jews!” One of the victims suffered head injuries, and the other was hit in the back. Seven were arrested in connection with the confrontation.
January 17, 2009 - Hayangue - A Molotov cocktail was thrown at a synagogue and burned the door.
January 15, 2009 - Fontenay-sous-Bois - Carjackers shouted anti-Semitic threats and stabbed a man four times after noticing his Star of David necklace. The victim suffered stab wounds to the head and neck.
January 15, 2009 - Villeneuve-Saint-Georges - A synagogue in a small town southeast of Paris was firebombed, causing the door to catch fire.
January 15, 2009 - Villeneuve Saint Georges - The door of a synagogue south of Paris was burned, when at least one Molotov cocktail was thrown at it. No other damage was reported.
January 14, 2009 - Mulhouse - “Death to Israel”, “Long live Palestine” and “(expletive) France” were spray-painted on a synagogue.
January 13, 2009 - Lille - A swastika and the letters “ZOG” were painted on a synagogue. “ZOG” is a common anti-Semitic acronym for “Zionist Occupied Government.”
January 11-12, 2009 - Bischeim - Three Molotov cocktails were thrown at a synagogue in Bischeim, near Strasbourg, damaging the exterior. No one was injured.
January 11, 2009 - Paris - Molotov cocktails were thrown at a synagogue in Saint Denis, a northern suburb of Paris. The firebombs bounced off the reinforced window and caused damage to an adjacent Jewish restaurant.
January 8, 2009 - Nice - “Death to Jews” was spray-painted outside of a primary school in Nice.
January 7, 2009 - Villiers-le-Bel - A 15-year-old girl accused a gang of ten people, including three schoolmates, of an anti-Semitic assault in a Paris suburb. She said she was thrown to the ground, kicked, and punched, and that the attackers told her that they were avenging Palestinians.
January 5, 2009 - Lingolsheim - A synagogue in a small town near Strasbourg was vandalized with graffiti, including the word “assassins.”
January 5, 2009 - Toulouse - A burning car with a Molotov cocktail was rammed into the door of a synagogue while a rabbi was giving a class inside. Another car was also prepared with Molotov cocktails, but an alarm scared off the attackers before it was used.
January 4, 2009 - Paris - A 29-year-old Jewish man was attacked at a Paris subway station by a gang of about 20 people who yelled “Palestine will win.” They hit him in the face and reportedly filmed the scene.
January 3, 2009 - Toulon - A car at the synagogue in Toulon was burned.
January 3, 2009 - Metz - An anti-Israel protest was directed at the synagogue in Metz.
January 2, 2009 - Valenton - A Jewish doctor, 70, was shot twice in the back as he left his office in a small town south of Paris. The police have no witnesses and no alternative theories about why he was attacked.
January 1, 2009 - Bordeaux - Two kosher food shops were vandalized.
November 7, 2009 – Dresden – A synagogue was vandalized with swastikas and other anti-Semitic hate symbols. The vandalism took place days prior to events commemorating the 71st anniversary of Kristallnacht.
January 28, 2009 - Laupheim - Vandals spray-painted several swastikas on the wall of a Jewish cemetery.
January 25, 2009 - Waren - A Holocaust memorial was desecrated the day after a commemoration ceremony. The perpetrators threw paint bombs at the memorial stone and the flowers which lay upon the stone.
January 14, 2009 - Berlin - A guard at a Berlin synagogue was attacked with an iron bar and had to be hospitalized. The assailant was subdued by other guards. The police described him as “stateless” and he claimed to be Palestinian.
January 12, 2009 - Bedburg - An old Jewish cemetery was defaced with a swastika and Nazi-symbols.
January 7, 2009 - Rostock - Vandals defaced the Jewish Center by throwing stones through the windows, one of which was decorated with the Star of David.
January 3, 2009 - Berlin - Berlin's Holocaust memorial was vandalized with anti-Semitic slogans and swastikas.
June 3, 2009 - Ioannina - Six graves and the main memorial of a Jewish cemetery were vandalized. The perpetrators also covered the tombstones with blood from a turtle they had killed.
January 18, 2009 - Ioannina - Three tombs in a Jewish cemetery were attacked and broken.
January 8, 2009 - Athens - Graffiti reading “Israelites - Jews - Murderers” was found at the Jewish cemetery.
January 4, 2009 - Athens - The leader of a far-right party published an editorial that accused Israel of acting in Gaza like the Nazis, claiming that such could be expected of Jews because they are “Christ-killers.” The editorial also included the phrase, “it is known all over the world that a Jew smells of blood.”
October 26, 2009 – Mako – The memorial plaque commemorating the 1944 death of Rabbi Dr. Armin Kecskemeti, a famous Hungarian chief rabbi, was shattered, and its wall defaced with anti-Jewish and Holocaust denying statements such as “What Six Million?”
January 21-22, 2009 - Rome - Two members of the neo-fascist group Militia vandalized several Jewish-owned shops and put up a banner reading “Boycott Israel!” The young neo-Nazis were arrested by the police.
January 18, 2009 - Florence - A gas canister, rigged as an explosive device, was found at the entrance to the Chabad house. The device failed to explode and was safely removed.
January 12, 2009 - Pisa - Red paint was thrown at the town synagogue.
Late August – Vezaiciai - A swastika and the Nazi slogan "Juden raus" were painted on a sign commemorating a site where Nazis murdered Jews.
January 17-18, 2009 - Klaipeda - “Kill Jews,” “Palestine,” and swastikas were painted on a Jewish community center.
January 18, 2009 - Amsterdam - A Molotov cocktail was thrown into a commercial building with a Hebrew inscription that houses a synagogue. The small fire was extinguished before major damage was done.
January 16, 2009 - Klaipeda - “Get rid of the Jews” and swastikas were painted on the wall of the Jewish community center.
July 1, 2009 – Panasheshti – A group of eight or nine youths attacked a rabbi who was on a fishing trip with his students. The perpetrators shouted anti-Semitic insults as they assaulted and robbed him.
March 1, 2009 - Bendery - Vandals broke into a synagogue, desecrating a Torah scroll, the ark and prayer table. They also defaced the walls with neo-Nazi graffiti, burned posters, and stole religious objects.
July 11, 2009 – Amsterdam – Swastikas and the word “Jew” were scribbled on more than 20 cars in the Oud-Zuid region.
January 3, 2009 - Amsterdam - At an anti-Israel rally that included the participation of a Dutch legislator, the crowd chanted, “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas.”
May 15, 2009 - Oslo - The Jewish section of a cemetery was desecrated in an anti-Semitic attack. Vandals painted black swastikas and “The War is Not Over” on several tombstones at the historic Sofienberg cemetery, which is a national heritage site.
June 13, 2009 - Wroclaw - Vandals painted a swastika, the SS symbol and the words ‘Jude Raus’ (Jews out) on a synagogue and a nearby Jewish Information Center.
June 16, 2009 - Chelm - ‘Jews to the oven, for this is your place’ was written in Polish on the entrance sign of the Gdansk-Chelm Jewish cemetery.
May 19, 2009 - Gora Kalwaria - Swastikas and insults, including “Jude Raus” (Jews out) were painted on walls of a burial chamber of the rabbis of Ger.
July 14, 2009 – Ploiesti – Vandals destroyed five tombstones of a Jewish cemetery.
September 12, 2009 – Khabarovsk – Two Molotov cocktails were thrown at a synagogue. Four skinheads, aged 15 to 23, were arrested and charged with arson. The home of a police officer who investigates racist crimes was also firebombed the same night.
July 16, 2009 – Komi Republic – A rock was thrown through the window of the Syktyvkar Jewish community center. It was the second time this year that unknown vandals had attacked the building.
July 12, 2009 – Ryazan – Unknown vandals painted swastikas on the doors of a Jewish community center.
June 19, 2009 – Abakan – A swastika was spray-painted on the entrance doors of a Jewish community center.
May 14, 2009- Nizhny Novgorod - Fourteen Jewish graves were desecrated in Nizhny Novgorod in early May. The Marina Roscha cemetery had been the target of vandals on several previous occasions.
May 12, 2009 - Pskov - Swastikas were painted on the door of the Jewish social service center, “Chesed Itzhak.”
May 7, 2009 - Norilsk - A monument to Jewish victims of Stalin's repression was spray-painted with crossed-out Stars of David and anti-Semitic epithets.
March 30, 2009 - Sebezh - A Jewish cemetery was desecrated. The perpetrators burned wreaths and damaged 18 tombstones.
March 11, 2009 - Petrozavodsk - A Holocaust memorial in a Jewish cemetery was vandalized.
February 17, 2009 - Yaroslavl - Rocks were thrown through the windows of a synagogue. No one was injured.
July 6, 2009 – Vrsac – Anti-Semitic graffiti containing the phrase ‘EU and NATO are diabolic Jews’ was spray-painted on the walls of a building.
June 1, 2009 - Subotica - Eleven gravestones in a Jewish cemetery were destroyed.
January 18, 2009 - Maribor - A Jewish community center and historic former synagogue was vandalized with slogans, including “Juden Raus” (“Jews get out”) and “Gaza.”
January 30, 2009 – Barcelona – A man with a baseball bat repeatedly struck the nameplate of a synagogue. When an employee of the synagogue approached the man, he was hit in the arm and head. Passersby alerted the police, and the attacker was arrested. The synagogue employee required hospitalization for a fractured arm and head contusions.
January 12, 2009 - Barcelona - The windows of the Chabad house in Barcelona were broken and “assassins” was spray-painted on the building.
January 13, 2009 - Malmo - Vandals threw Molotov cocktails at the burial chapel of a Jewish cemetery. The synagogue was slightly damaged.
January 5, 2009 - Helsingborg - A Molotov cocktail was thrown at the synagogue. No damage was reported.
January 5, 2009 - Helsingfors - A Molotov cocktail was thrown into the synagogue.
January 4, 2009 - Malmo - Arsonists attempted to burn down a Jewish burial chapel. The structure suffered minor damage from soot and smoke.
January 11-12, 2009 - Geneva - Windows were broken overnight at a kolel, a Jewish study center.
January 11, 2009 - Zurich - Graffiti comparing the Star of David to a swastika was sprayed on walls of a restaurant on the outskirts of the city.
January 3, 2009 - Bern - Anti-Israel protesters carried signs equating Israel with Nazi Germany.
January 6, 2009 - Ankara - An Israeli basketball team fled from the court into the dressing room, because the crowd became threatening, calling them “killers” and shouting “death to Jews.”
United Kingdom
October 11, 2009 – Manchester – Two men shouted racist slurs and punched a 16-year-old teenager as he was walking home from synagogue with his mother and sister.
January 19, 2009 - London - A 31-year-old Jewish man was beaten by several men who shouted “for Gaza” as they attacked him, leaving him with a black eye and several bruises.
January 3, 2009 - London - Assailants tried to burn a synagogue in the Brondesbury section of London.
Ukraine
August 30, 2009 – Melitopol – Vandals painted swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans on the main entrance of a Jewish charity’s building in southern Ukraine. Similar graffiti appeared in nearby towns. During World War II, Melitopol was in the part of Ukraine that fought against Nazi invasion.
April 17, 2009 – Voskresensk – Vandals defiled a Holocaust memorial. Swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti, including “Death to Jews” in German and Russian, were painted on the monument.
Uruguay:January 13, 2009 - Montevideo - The facade of the the headquarters of the Israelite Association Jaime Zhitlovsky, located in the neighborhood of Palermo, Montevideo, was firebombed with Molotov cocktails. The cultural center building sustained only slight damage, and no one was injured.
Venezuela:January 30, 2009 - Caracas - About 15 armed men overpowered and tied up a security guard and forced their way into a synagogue, defacing its administrative offices with anti-Semitic graffiti and throwing Torah scrolls to the ground in a rampage that lasted nearly five hours. Graffiti left at the scene included the phrases “Damn the Jews, “Jews out” and “Israel assassins” and a picture of a devil. More
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