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Broadcast: 18/11/2008
Reporter: Matt Brown
FINAL STORY
SERIES 18
EPISODE 21
Synopsis
For almost four years the ABC’s Jerusalem based correspondent Matt Brown has been reporting on the Israeli/Palestinian divide, but for this Foreign Correspondent story he focuses on violence by Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
He finds ultra-orthodox Jews, Asians and migrant workers being attacked on Israeli streets by a gang of young neo-Nazis. The police, initially at least were seemingly unwilling or unable to take action.
Brown sets out to find out what motivates Ivan Kuzmin, a young Ukrainian Jew, charged with assault and incitement to racism.
Kuzmin’s family migrated to Israel 10 years ago hoping for a better life free of discrimination. But Ivan still didn’t fit in. “There they called me things like dirty Jew... And here they called me stinky Russian.”
Despite having a grandmother who survived the Jewish Holocaust in Europe, Kuzmin joined other young immigrants in a neo-Nazi gang called Patrol 36, which regularly bashed people senseless. They were so proud of their actions they videotaped their attacks.
[B] An Israeli court has jailed eight Jewish teenagers for carrying out neo-Nazi attacks in a case that sparked revulsion in a state that was a haven for Jews after the Holocaust. [/B]