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Monday, April 22, 2013

U.S. State Department 2012 Report On Human Rights in Bulgaria: Antisemitism

From the U.S. State Department's 2012 report released this week (emphasis added):
  1. Defacement of Jewish memorials and buildings, both public and private, persisted, and Jewish organizations remained concerned over the government’s passivity in addressing all hate crimes.
  2. While in the past Web site administrators deleted anti-Semitic comments under online media articles, they gradually stopped the practice. 
  3. Internet social networks have become increasingly popular with anti-Semitic groups, especially after the July terrorist bombing of Israeli tourists in the Black Sea port city of Burgas, and in connection with the upcoming 70th anniversary of the saving of Bulgarian Jews from deportation to Nazi camps.
  4. During the year prosecution service authorities refused to take action against extreme right-wing Ataka party leader Volen Siderov for his anti-Semitic books. 
  5. The nationalist party Internal Revolutionary Macedonian Organization (VMRO) increased its anti-Semitic character, adopting neo-Nazi rhetoric.

Rear of City Hall, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, 2013
















Arterial Behind City Hall, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, 2013








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