Brazil - Anti-Semitic Attacks in 2008

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• January: Brazilian singer, Nana Caymmi, made blatantly ant-Semitic remarks during a recent interview. Caymmi is one of Brazil’s most popular singers, and daughter to Dorival Caymmi, one of the country’s foremost composers. In an interview with British publication Queen Magazine, Caymmi was asked about her son’s long battle with drug addiction. The singer stated that “it is pure hell. You cannot imagine the drama I live with. I constantly ask myself why I need suffer so. I am not Jewish, I did not crucify Jesus.”
• March: On March 8th, a community member was leaving synagogue when he was verbally attacked by a dark-skinned man. The verbal insult was "Long live to Hitler! Jew piece of sh*t! Where is Hitler?"
• March: Two swastikas, the number 88 and the word skinhead were written on a traffic sign at Rodovia dos Imigrantes in Sao Paulo.
• April: A swastika was spray-painted in a wall near one of the Jewish schools, in Vila Mariana neighborhood, Sao Paulo city, Brazil.
• October: Swastikas were spray-painted in a wall near the entrance of "A Hebraica" in Sao Paulo.