MosNews.com - 11.17.2004

MosNews.com

Banned Nationalist Party Holds Anti-Semitic Rally in Central Moscow

Holding up dozens of anti-Semitic signs, hundreds of people rallied in central Moscow’s main thoroughfare Tverskaya Street on Saturday to protest the arrest warrant for nationalist leader Boris Mironov, wanted on charges of inciting inter-racial hatred.

The group that apparently organized the rally — the National Power Party of Russia — was banned by the Justice Ministry for inciting inter-racial hatred. On one poster held up at the rally, it identified itself as the party of “those who are ready to fight the Jewish yoke”.

While reporters from the independent Ekho Moskvy radio station said there were only 200 demonstrators Saturday afternoon, and no anti-Semitic signs of any kind, a MosNews correspondent estimated there were as many as 800 people gathered in Pushkin Square. 

Their signs featured various accusations against the Jewish people, quoting historical figures such as Napoleon and Henry Ford. 

“Jews! Disgusting types. Get your stinking paws away from Boris Mironov!” one placard read.

Another sign read that Jews were the “plague of society and its greatest foes”.

According to a new law passed earlier this year, all rallies must be registered with the Moscow prefecture. Yelena Polyakova, an official from the prefecture of Moscow’s central district, where the organizers obtained permission for the rally, told MosNews that a public initiative group registered for the rally, calling itself the Slavic Journalists’ Union who wanted to hold a rally “in support of Russian Patriots”.

Polyakova said that since the National Power Party of Russia is banned, it cannot organize rallies itself. It appears this was probably done for the party by the Slavic Journalists’ Union.

“Prosecutors were present at the rally, and they probably took note of the [anti-Semitic] signs and the presence of the party,” Polyakova told MosNews.

[All photos by Nicholas Danilov, MosNews.com]
	“We in Russia have one plight – when the kike ended up here.”
	“Kikes are a plague-stricken, leprous, and dangerous race that deserves to be destroyed from the day of its birth.” (right) “Kikes! Disgusting types, keep your mitts off of Boris Mironov.” (center) "The Nationalist Party of Russia (NDPR) –  The party of those who are ready to fight the kike oppressors" (left)
	“Jews don’t sow bread, Jews don’t sell things in stores, Jews bald earlier, Jews steal more.” (right) “Jews of all ages and incomes must leave the Russian empire.” (left)
	(right) “If you take money away from 50 richest Jewish families, all wars and revolutions will end.” –Henry Ford, International Jewry, 1920s
	Demonstrators rally at Pushkin Square in Central Moscow
	Russian Orthodox priests participated in the rally, which included religious iconography