Teacher in Chabad School in Russia on Trial for ‘Inciting Racial Hatred Against the German People’
A former teacher at Chabad’s Or Avner Jewish day school in Yekaterinburg, Russia, is on trial for inciting racial hatred because he told his students to “kill the Germans,” according to testimony by one of his former 12-year-old students. The school was raided earlier this summer by agents of the FSB, successor to the dreaded Soviet KGB.
From the JTA:
The student testifying in the trial of Semen Tykman, who taught at the Or Avner Jewish school in Yekaterinburg, also said the teacher told the class he spits in the direction of every Russian Orthodox Church he passes, the news website Uralpolit.ru reported. The same witness said Tykman described in detail how to drink vodka with honey on Shabbat, according to the report.
Tykman, 57, has pleaded not guilty to the charges of “inciting hatred or hostility, and humiliation of human dignity.” His trial began last month and its first witness hearing took place on Sept. 17 at the Kirovsky District Court in the city, which is located near the Europe-Asia border.
Prosecutors indicted Tykman last month based on complaints by several parents. Asked for a comment on the charges against him, Tykman told the site he would speak only after a verdict is delivered.
Pinny
Interesting. Could this same law be used to prosecute Russian racists that incite violence against jews and other immigrants….
Milhouse
It could be, but it won’t, just as Germany is prosecuting those who speak out against Moslem migrants but did not prosecute those who called for “Death to the Jews”, and decided that burning a shul in protest against Israel was not motivated by hatred.
Wait a minute
Doesn’t Germany prosecute those who deny the Holocaust?
Milhouse
Yes, it does. But it does not prosecute those who call for Jews to be killed.
From a recent Legal Insurrection post: “This judicial activism would come as a surprise to anyone who witnessed German authorities’ inaction in face of massive anti-Semitic outbursts and violence during the Gaza conflict of 2014. Police across Germany failed to take action against demonstrators calling openly for violence against Jews. In July 2014, Police in Frankfurt allowed its megaphone-van to relay antisemitic hate. And when 3 men were arrested for burning the Synagogue in Wuppertal, courts acquitted them of hate crime — calling their crime an “act of protest [against Israel].” The men were found guilty of lesser charges and released on probation.”