Following the murder of David Rozensweig by skinheads in Toronto last week, Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Melchior said that the current \"wave of worldwide anti-Semitic attacks in recent months is the worst since the Second World War.\" Germany, for instance, registered 127 anti-Semitic attacks in only three months this year. A partial list of this year\'s attacks (with help from Ma\'ariv):
May 6 - Two Israelis banished from a French restaurant in New York City. \"Israelis will not eat in my restaurant,\" the owner told them.
May 14 - A group of 20 North African youths violently assaulted five young Jews in Paris, several of whom suffered broken jaws.
May 28 - The first of three booby-trapped \"Death to Jews\" signs along a Moscow highway was uprooted by a concerned passerby; the ensuing explosion caused her to lose her sight (until she was cured in Israel). Two other signs in the following weeks killed one Russian and injured two others.
June 13 - Two Israeli professors were fired from their jobs at British language journals run by an Egyptian professor from the University of Manchester. The professor said at the time, \"I deplore the Israeli state.\"
July 3 - Czech skinheads threw smoke bombs at an event in which the country\'s Chief Rabbi was participating.
July 8 - Thirty young Israelis attending an English-learning camp in Greece were attacked by their \"friends\" from Poland and Russia, who threatened to \"kill you just like the Nazis did.\"
Mid-July - Almost 40 graves in a Jewish cemetery in Rome were vandalized, and dozens of graves were damaged in Borisov, Belarus.
May 6 - Two Israelis banished from a French restaurant in New York City. \"Israelis will not eat in my restaurant,\" the owner told them.
May 14 - A group of 20 North African youths violently assaulted five young Jews in Paris, several of whom suffered broken jaws.
May 28 - The first of three booby-trapped \"Death to Jews\" signs along a Moscow highway was uprooted by a concerned passerby; the ensuing explosion caused her to lose her sight (until she was cured in Israel). Two other signs in the following weeks killed one Russian and injured two others.
June 13 - Two Israeli professors were fired from their jobs at British language journals run by an Egyptian professor from the University of Manchester. The professor said at the time, \"I deplore the Israeli state.\"
July 3 - Czech skinheads threw smoke bombs at an event in which the country\'s Chief Rabbi was participating.
July 8 - Thirty young Israelis attending an English-learning camp in Greece were attacked by their \"friends\" from Poland and Russia, who threatened to \"kill you just like the Nazis did.\"
Mid-July - Almost 40 graves in a Jewish cemetery in Rome were vandalized, and dozens of graves were damaged in Borisov, Belarus.