Germany Antisemitism Watch

World | Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:47:39 am PST

Deutsche Welle reports on yet another incident of antisemitic cemetery desecration in Germany: Germany Condemns Swinish Acts of Antisemitic Vandalism. “Swinish.” There’s a word you don’t see much in US media; it definitely fits.

Authorities announced on Tuesday, November 18 that unknown persons had desecrated a pair of Jewish cemeteries near the Eastern German city of Erfurt. Unfortunately, some people never learn from history.

A pig’s head was found stuck to the entrance gate at a Jewish graveyard in the town of Gotha next to a section of cloth with the words “six million lies” written on it. Police said a blood-red liquid had also been thrown at the gate and that the ground was covered with broken glass — perhaps a reference to the Night of Broken Glass, the 1938 Nazi pogrom against German Jews.

In Erfurt itself, police said, a memorial plaque at the entrance to another Jewish cemetery was also covered with a blood-colored substance.

German politicians were quick to condemn the acts of desecration.