{"id":844,"date":"2007-09-11T00:36:54","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T14:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=844"},"modified":"2007-09-11T09:43:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T23:43:44","slug":"russian-israeli-neo-nazis-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Russian-Israeli neo-Nazis. Again."},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it took a while — about six months or so — but I suppose it was really only a matter of time before Israeli police arrested some of the young neo-Nazis living and organising among the Russian diaspora in Petah Tikva, Israel. Typically, the group (allegedly) specialised in assaulting vulnerable individuals: foreigners, ‘gay’ people, religious Jews, and punks. Although — again, typically — attacks on the latter group are barely reported<\/a>; this despite the fact that the punks in question come from the same background, but are anti<\/em>-fascist, and are therefore probably in the best position to tackle the problem. Unlike say, Melbourne fashion punks<\/a>. Quite the reverse, in fact<\/a>. For example, on September 29, No Idea<\/strong>, Sewer Cider<\/strong> and The Worst<\/strong> will be scabbing<\/a> on a boycott of local neo-Nazi venue The Birmy<\/a>, on this occasion as part of the annual Melbourne punk pub crawl (to neo-Nazism). Coincidentally, at the same time as Moti Katz was writing about the Russian-Israeli punks in question — We\u2019re not Nazis, we\u2019re punk-anarchists<\/a>, Ha\u2019aretz<\/em>, February 28, 2007 — other scabs (The Blurters, Charter 77, PBG and Slick 46) were also preparing to play The Birmy<\/a>. Thus on the one hand, punks in Israel battle stereotypes that Russian immigrant youth are all violent racist thugs — and are assaulted by the thugs in question for their troubles; on the other hand, Melbourne punks support a venue which for many years has happily played host to violent racist thugs — and the thugs in question sit back and laugh.<\/p>\n

And I for one can’t blame them.<\/p>\n

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Interior Minister: I’ll consider revoking neo-Nazis’ citizenship<\/a>
\nRoni Singer-Heruti
\nHa’aretz<\/em>
\nSeptember 10, 2007<\/p>\n

The Interior Ministry said Sunday that it would consider revoking the citizenship of eight teens suspected of running a neo-Nazi cell in Petah Tikva, if they are convicted.<\/p>\n

The suspects, aged 17 to 19, confessed to assaulting dozens of people, mainly foreign workers around Tel Aviv’s central bus station and Carmel market, causing many of them serious injury. The eight were arrested a month ago, and a gag order on the arrest was lifted Saturday.<\/p>\n

According to police, the neo-Nazi cell comprised individuals who have distant ties to Judaism and nonetheless immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union under the Law of Return, which grants all Jews the right to immigrate.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Police have seized 5 kilograms of explosives, a pistol, and an M-16 assault rifle belonging to the group of neo-Nazi youths. Police believe the group intended to use the weapons against punk rockers in the city, with whom they often clash violently.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Six of the eight suspects have confessed to the charges against them, while two reported ringleaders of the group have professed their innocence. One of the reported leaders Eli Boanitov was quoted by police as saying, “I won’t ever give up, I was a Nazi and I will stay a Nazi, until we kill them all I will not rest.”<\/p>\n

Police confirmed that the majority of the suspects were enrolled in Israeli public schools, and at least one was drafted into the army. Police suspect that the youth who was drafted fled the country after giving his army-issue M-16 to a member of the cell.<\/p>\n

Police uncovered the cell a year ago, while investigating vandalism at the main synagogue in Petah Tikva, where neo-Nazis sprayed swastikas and Adolf Hitler’s name on walls and prayer books. Computers seized from two suspects arrested in that case led police to dozens of video files documenting brutal assaults on foreign workers.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Superintendent Revital Almog… said that the teens would deliberately select victims who they deemed too weak to complain. Most of them were foreign workers who the teenagers would attack, telling them that because they were not white, they would be harmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n