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Neo-Nazi Mariusz Wdziekonski Gets Maximum Sentence For Defiling Jewish Graves

Cook County Judge Larry Axelrood put his disdain for the defendant before him in no uncertain terms in his Skokie, Illinois courtroom on Friday.

“You’re a person who’s bigoted and espouses hate,” he said to 24-year-old Mariusz Wdziekonski, as he gave the Polish immigrant the maximum sentence for two charges of felony vandalism.

Wdziekonski was convicted two weeks ago of defiling 57 graves at a Jewish cemetery in the Chicago suburbs. He was a member of the National Socialist Movement, America’s largest neo-Nazi hate group, and confessed to spray-painting swastikas and phrases like “Aryan Power” on the headstones in order to gain stature in that organization.

After today’s sentencing hearing, Assistant State’s Attorney Lauren Brown told the Chicago Sun-Times that the maximum seven-year term imposed on Wdziekonski was “exactly what he deserved.”

He may be out of jail by next summer, though.

Wdziekonski was arrested in January 2008, so he’s been in custody almost three years already. Illinois law mandates that he serve only half his prison term, meaning he would be released in mid-2011.

But having immigrated in 2004, the conviction could lead to Wdziekonski’s deportation upon his release.

MK Tibi: Skinhead rabbis vs. Arabs

During Knesset session, Arab lawmakers slam ruling against selling or renting apartments to non-Jews. MK El Sana calls rabbis ‘scum of the earth.’ President Peres: Ban ‘an ethical crisis’

The Knesset convened Wednesday to discuss a ruling issued by 50 city rabbis against selling or renting apartments to Arabs, and heard harsh condemnations from Arab lawmakers.

Knesset Member Ahmad Tibi (United Arab List-Ta’al) said during the discussion, “I am certain that the number of rabbis will rise. Since the Arabs are a Semitic people – this is anti-Semitism. These rabbis are skinheads acting against the Arabs.”

Tibi’s remarks enraged many right-wing and religious lawmakers who called on him to take back his harsh remarks.

Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin removed MK Talab El Sana (United Arab List-Ta’al) from the hall after he referred to the rabbis as “scum of the earth”, claiming that “they are not rabbis but racists.”

El Sana turned to Interior Minister Eli Yishai who was addressing the Knesset and asked him why he had failed to condemn the rabbis. Yishai responded that the Palestinian Authority executed people who sold houses to Jews. El Sana replied, “We are in Israel and the law forbids incitement to racism.”

“Any rabbi in Israel is authorized to rule what he believes in according to Jewish law,” Yishai said. “The Israeli Knesset does not approve halachic rulings, so it’s not my job to tell a rabbi what to rule and what not to rule. I, as interior minister, am not supposed to enforce rabbis’ rulings.”

Knesset Speaker Rivlin told him, “In the Jewish and democratic country, the combination of Jewish and democratic has been causing problems for 62 years now… And yet, issuing a ruling which contradicts the laws of the State of Israel and saying that they are allowed to do at the Knesset…I would be careful.”

Rivlin asked to transfer the meeting’s protocol to the attorney general, who would examine whether it includes any illegal incitement.

Minister Avishay Braverman called on Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein to launch a criminal investigation against the rabbis, saying that “as a minister and a proud Jew – any refusal to rent apartments is wrong. I am ashamed.”

President Shimon Peres said earlier Wednesday that “the rabbis’ statement creates an ethical and fundamental crisis in Israel relating to Israel’s essence as a Jewish and democratic country.”