- A Lithuanian court has fined the owner of a popular newspaper
3,000 litas for publishing an anti-Semitic editorial.
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- Vitas Tomkus, the owner and editor-in-chief of the daily
Respublika, was found liable for his scurrilous attacks aimed at homosexuals
and Jews. In an editorial published last year, entitled "Who Rules
the World?," Tomkus warned readers to be suspicious of America, because
it, "is ruled by Jews." He added that "Jews use the issue
of the Holocaust to conceal their own crimes."
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- An editorial cartoon, also published last year, depicts
a caricatured Jewish figure holding aloft a globe. He is standing next
to a man identified as a homosexual.
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- Representatives of Lithuania's 4,000 Jews testified in
court. One spokesperson accused the paper of "openly promoting anti-Semitic
hysteria." The incident had provoked denouncements from around the
world, including the United States. In a letter to the Lithuanian ambassador
from New Jersey Senator Steve Rothman, signed by 19 other congressman,
the Senator warns: "[P]rejudice against Jews and gays will only threaten
the stability of trans-Atlantic relations between Lithuania and the United
States and potentially slow the progress of the Republic of Lithuania's
integration into European institutions."
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