The chair of the Estonian Jewish Community, Cilja Laud, is withholding judgment on whether or not a series of recent antisemitic incidents in Estonia are part of a pattern or simply isolated incidents, according to a December 4, 2003 article in the Estonian regional paper Virumaa Teataja summarized by UCSJ’s Baltic Bureau. For example, a musicians’ event sponsored by a member of the Jewish community in the middle of November was disrupted by the punk rock band Marras, which called for the murder of Jews. A week before the publication of this article, a Jewish cemetery Rakvere was vandalized, shortly after the effects of the last vandalism incident there were cleaned up. Many Jews have also expressed concern over the appearance of antisemitic comments on Estonian Internet sites.

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