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Revision as of 18:15, 16 July 2007 by 69.22.249.79 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Avigdor Eskin (born April 26, 1960) is a half-Jewish Russian-Israeli activist.
Biography
Born in the Soviet Union, Eskin emigrated to Israel where he became involved in political activity, both legal and illegal. He currently commutes back and forth between Russia and Israel.
Political activities
In 1979, at age 19, he and three other accomplices were arrested for breaking into Palestinian houses in Hebron, where they “overturned furniture and assaulted inhabitants.” Three years later, in 1981, Eskin was again arrested, this time during a protest in front of the Soviet Airline Aeroflot’s offices in New York, and charged with “rioting, unlawful assembly, disorderly conduct and attempted criminal mischief.”
Eskin became famous in 1995 when he allegedly laid a Pulsa diNura death curse on Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin in response to the Oslo Accords. The Pulsa diNura is believed generally to work within thirty days, and it was thirty-two days after Eskin’s curse that Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir. As a result, in 1997 Eskin was sentenced to four months in prison for incitement. It was later revealed that the Torah scrolls used in the ceremony were in fact empty and had been staged for the cameras.
On his release, Eskin began to prepare two projects designed to ignite a Palestinian reaction: catapulting a pig’s head into the grounds of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount during Ramadan, and placing another pig’s head on the grave of a Izz ad-Din al-Qassam. The Israeli security services discovered these plans, as well as a plan to burn down a building belonging to an Israeli leftist group, Dor Shalom, and Eskin and an accomplice were again arrested. In 1999 Eskin was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
On his release from prison, Eskin continued his activities in association with the Russian Political Traditionalist Alexander Dugin.
In May, 2005 Eskin won a slander case that he filed against Barry Chamish.
Currently Avigdor Eskin opposes the United States war in Iraq and has written numerous articles critical of the United States.