Attackers hurl stones at synagogue in Russia's far east

[Behind the Aegis]

Unidentified attackers on Friday hurled stones at a synagogue in a fareastern Russian city, shattering windows but hurting no one, officials said.

The pre-dawn attack on the synagogue in Khabarovsk, a city of 580,000 on the border with China, was the latest sign of rising xenophobia and anti-Semitism in Russia. It came ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which begins at sundown Friday.

The regional department of the Interior Ministry said the attack occurred in the pre-dawn hours Friday when the synagogue was empty. A criminal investigation was launched.

Last summer, unidentified attackers spilled gasoline at the synagogue's entrance and set it on fire. No one was hurt in that incident and there was no damage to the building. Police have failed to track down the perpetrators, the Interior Ministry's regional department said.


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[DavidDvorkin]

1. I bet this is just a bad translation of some Russian news story

I bet that's not what happened at all!

:sarcasm:

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

2. So many religions

So much hate.

[rockymountaindem]

3. Well, at least they're not succeeding at anything

Hopefully they'll stop the attacks, but these guys sound like the Keystone Kops of anti-Semites.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. Keystone Kops of anti-Semites

:rofl:

That is a good one! :) L'Shana Tova!

[rockymountaindem]

5. You too!

It's like that Voltaire line when he said "I have prayed only once in my life, 'God, make my enemies rediculous', and he answered my prayer".

[azurnoir]

6. They who?

if memory serves Russia has a long tradition of this type of thing, Easter in Moscow (circa 1906) could be a real killer if you were Jewish. Things may have toned down in action but in spirit who knows.

[rockymountaindem]

10. I mean

First they try to burn it down, and that didn't work. Next they show up with rocks... of all the things they could do I'm just surprised they're doing this. I'm glad it's not working, whatever it is, and I hope they all get busted.

[azurnoir]

11. What I mean is that there is a

long well established history of anti-Semitism in Russia and that the police may well try to brush it off as a kids will be kids kind of thing or sweep it under the rug.

[barb162]

7. That synagogue needs monitoring/ cameras on it 24 hours a day

[Behind the Aegis]

8. Sadly, many synagogues worldwide need it (security).

The other day I posted about the shots fired at a synagogue in Oslo, Norway. I was reading about the perps they caught, turns out there has been about three weeks of attacks on Jews in Oslo. It is really a sad state of affairs for Jews the world over.

[barb162]

9. It's getting like the late 1930s

It's a sad state of affairs and also quite frightening

[UncleSepp]

12. Here, have some um...

http://drawsketch.about.com/library/weekly/aa021603a.htm

:pals: No harm meant, but really, it isn't like the late 30s. Things are actually fairly ordinary out there, even with the attacks, which is even more sad.