Brooklyn College hosts Hate Crimes Prevention Conference

STEPPING UP!
A COMMUNITY CONFERENCE
TO PREVENT HATE CRIMES
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2008
8:30 AM - 1:00 PM, LIGHT BREAKFAST & REGISTRATION BEGIN AT 8:30 AM
BROOKLYN COLLEGE CONFERENCE CENTER, CAMPUS ROAD & EAST 27TH STREET
RSVP by 4/1/08 to Hoi Chan at 212-983-4800 x121, chanh@jcrcny.org,
or register online at www.waab.org.
This event is free of charge and has been generously underwritten by the JCRC of NY, with
space sponsored by the Brooklyn College Conference Center.
Seating is limited and reservations are required.
This Conference will allow professionals, community leaders, activists, advocates, agency executives,
educators and case workers to gain some best practices, tools, and resources for preventing hate crimes
in their work and daily lives.
Event Program Highlights include presentations by:
Hassan Askari, Bangladeshi Muslim who defended a Jewish man who was being attacked by a gang of ten;
Devorah Halberstam, Director of Foundation and Government Services at the Jewish Children's Museum;
Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes; Inspector Michael Osgood of the New York Police Department
Hate Crimes Task Force; Keynote Speaker Rev. Clinton Miller, Brown Memorial Baptist Church;
a special performance by CityKids Repertory Company; an audio presentation from StoryCorps; and
Henna White, Mothers to Mothers.
This event will also feature representatives of:
The American Jewish Committee - New York Chapter, Anti-Defamation League - New York Region, Brooklyn College,
CAMBA, Council of Peoples Organization, Crown Heights Community Mediation Center, Crown Heights Youth
Collective, Greater Southern Brooklyn Health Coalition, JCRC-NY/CAUSE-NY, Mt. Zion Church of God, New York
City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project (AVP), New York City Commission on Human Rights, New York Lawyers
for the Public Interest, Project REACH, United Sikhs, and YouthBridge-NY.
Presented by
We Are All Brooklyn
Center for the Study of Brooklyn
and
Jewish Community Relations Council of NY / CAUSE-NY
We Are All Brooklyn Coalition receives technical and coalition building consultation from
CAUSE-NY, the intergroup relations division of the JCRC-NY. The JCRC is an affiliate of
UJA-Federation of NY.
Brooklyn College support from: Office of Affirmative Action, Compliance & Diversity;
Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies; The Women’s Center; and The Division
of Student Affairs.
Visit www.waab.org for more information.

Report to Congress finds Anti-Semitism on the rise around the World

According to CNN.com, a report titled "Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism," was given to Congress, detailing information about the rise of Anti-Semitism around the world. It talks about conspiracy theories concerning Jews, Holocaust denial, anti-Zionism and the demonization of Israel. It also discussed physical attacks against Jews, property damage, and desecration of cemeteries.

You can see a copy of the report here.

Swastika found in Brooklyn College

I am currently a student at Brooklyn College. Yesterday in one of the bathrooms, I was shocked to discover three Swastikas on the walls of one of the stalls. I was so shocked that I alerted a professor to the discovery and he confirmed that those were swastikas. I alerted security and the officer told me "I have been doing this for fifteen years and I have never seen this before." I alerted the Dean of Undergraduate Studies as well as the President of the University about this horrible discovery. The Dean personally called me back to apologize to me about what had happened and that they would be taken down immediately.
Before they cleaned up the stall, I took pictures of the swastikas on my cellphone.

Anti-Semitic graffiti found sprayed in cargo part of El Al Plane

According to Ynetnews.com, an El-Al Plane flying from Israel to Italy was found to have Arabic graffiti sprawled in the cargo part of the play. According to the report, they wrote "Death to Jews" and another report from Reuters says they wrote "Long Live Palestine."

No explosives were found on the plane.

I would venture a guess both were written as of the information right now; however, this is still a horrible thing to have occurred.

When will the world learn that the Muslim Extremists are anti-Semitic and want to kill Jews whether in Israel or in any country around the world?

A historical marker is erected in Georgia to remember an Jewish man who was lynched

According to 13wmaz.com, a historical marker was erected in Georgia to mark the spot where Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman, was lynched.

In 1913, Leo Frank was found guilty of killing a 13 year old Mary Phagan; however, the state of Georgia writes in the marker says the verdict was "controversial [and was] fueled by societal tensions and anti-Semitism."

In 1915 he was kidnapped from the prison, taken to Marietta, and hanged.

The marker states further states "Without addressing guilt or innocence, and in recognition of the state's failure to either protect Frank or bring
his killers to justice, he was granted a posthumous pardon in 1986."

Saudi TV show claims Jews were beind a conspiracy to kill the Prophet of Islam Muhammad

Disturbing Music Video from Hamas proclaims "In Black Bags, Chunks of Flesh of Jews"