Israeli police have detained a group of around 20 young neo-Nazis who originally immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union.
The group was discovered after police last month arrested one of the young men, a soldier in the Israeli army, on drug charges and discovered neo-Nazi material on his computer during a search and a swastika tattoo on his arm. (
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Because there is no specific Israeli law forbidding neo-Nazi beliefs or activities in the Jewish state, authorities are unsure how to proceed in the case.
Quote:Emigrants From Former Soviet Union Detained in Israel for Neo-Nazi Activities
02.06.2005
Israeli police have discovered a group of about 20 local neo-Nazis, young emigrants from the former Soviet Union, but are uncertain how to proceed against them because Israel has no specific laws against holding Nazi beliefs, the Israeli daily Maariv reported Tuesday.
Police tracked down the group after the recent arrest of a 20-year-old serviceman from the West Bank settlement of Ariel suspected of drug use. During a search in his house a large cache of neo-Nazi material downloaded from the Internet was seized. At the detention center policemen noticed a swastika tattoo on his arm.
The testimony of the detainee helped to identify other suspects of taking part in anti-Semitic Internet chat rooms and performing secret ceremonies with swastika banners and other neo-Nazi regalia.
"We cannot disclose details of the inquiry, but it's chilling," a police investigator Haim Fadlon was quoted by the paper as saying. "It appears there are people living in this country who are talking among themselves about extermination of the Jews."
Six million Jews were killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust of World War II, and hundreds of thousands of survivors made their homes in Israel after the war
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