A neo-Nazi leader in the Russian city of Orel was sentenced to two years in prison for inciting hatred toward Jews and people from the Caucasus Mountains area. The city’s small Jewish community is outraged because the judge in the case against Igor Semyonov refused to consider a 1993 leaflet in which the defendant termed Judaism a “misanthropic religion.” In his verdict, the judge said Semyonov’s judgment of Judaism was not reprehensible since the Torah and the Talmud contain misanthropic dogmas.
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