Tuesday, April 17, 2007

ISRAEL PROTESTS ANTI-SEMITIC RUSSIAN VIDEO

Israel Protests Anti-Semitic Russian Video Clip - Tovah Lazaroff (Jerusalem Post)
The Israel Foreign Ministry on Monday expressed concern to Russian Ambassador Piotr Stegniy about an "anti-Semitic" promotional video shown at a Euroleague basketball game in Moscow last week. The Russian video clip, which depicted CSKA Moscow as a train running over a Hassidic-looking Jewish man meant to represent Maccabi Tel Aviv, was shown to thousands of fans in the arena.

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