The term Semitic (Decendants of Shem, eldest son of Noah) refers to many of the races of the middle east and north africa, including arabs, not just the hebrew sect known as jews (Those from Judea). Therefore, to be anti-semitic would be to be against all those peoples.
You can, of course be against the policies of Israel without being anti-semitic, can't you?

David Glen, Glasgow, Scotland

Shok. Absurd. It's tragic mistake of yang sik boy.

Faerman, Moscow, Russia

"We have to rid ourselves of this Satan who lives in the heart of ..."

This kind of extremist language is the precurser for crimes of genocide, the first step being to de-humanise the selected group.

Bill Bird, Wallasey, Wirral

"... - After Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six-Day War the USSR broke off diplomatic ties with the Jewish state, halting emigration by Russian Jews ..."

... OMG... It was NOT any little bit tangible emigration by Russian Jews to Israel before the year 1967... I was there...
... several jews (MAXIMUM!!!) per year - this is NOT EMIGRATION!!... That was IRON WALL, sir... Please be accurate with such a painfull matters... PLEASE!!....

Dr. Michael Katz, Holon, Israel

Let’s not forget. Most of these people and their families came to Israel more then 10 years ago. They are not exactly new immigrants. If now they are aged between 16 and 21, do the math. They came to Israel as children between 7 and 12 years old. So, these neo-Nazis are not actually from Russia, they have became such in Israel. They come out of the Israeli schools. This neo-Nazi cell has been grown in Israel itself.

Michael, Tel-Aviv, Israel

It is sad to see NEO-NAZI sympathisers in Israel. It seems Holocaust servivers have no where to be safe from Hitloric ideology implementers. Iran and their leader Amadinajad is threatening Israel with a Nuclear holocaust, as if that is not enough pressure to keep the survivers wide awake everynight another NEO-NAZI simpathisers living in Israel? Where can Jewish people be safe on this Earth? While God has promised the Jewish people an everlasting life in heaven, but the people on Earth seem to fail Jewish people again and time again. I think the held persons should be sentenced to the maximum allowable sentences so they will send the message to other NEO-NAZI organizations they may be able to to sympathise the demise of the third reich other places in Europe, but not in Israel. Jewish survivers of holocaust must be assured that they are safe at home from NAZI persecutions, at least in Isreal where God has given home to the Jewish people.

Jonas, Toronro, Canada

Now I've heard it all!
What better illustration of the Law of Unintened Consequences could one hope to find.

Gouldman, LONDON,

So a bunch of Russian nazis have more rights than an Arab Israeli who has lived all his life in Israel.

Apartheid surely?

tony b, london,

The irony is that this echoes the one scene in Life Of Brian that was deemed so deeply thought-provoking that it had to be cut!

These people were raised in a milieu in which, no matter how grounded or otherwise the fears of Israeli society might be, those fears are frequently couched in the language of racism, collective blame and collective punishment - the staple diet of National Socialism. Such a society will produce inevitably people like this - many of their randomly-chosen targets after all coincide with those of the ultra-Orthodox. They simply widened their net a bit.

The interesting bit will be to see whether Israeli society concludes that the danger lies in the fact that the language it uses to talk about itself is too extreme - or not extreme enough.

Ian Kemmish, Biggleswade, UK

Trojan horse.

Paul Francis, Brisbane, Australia

This is one of the worst things that could happen here and it is a disgrace that it took the police such a long time to bring them to justice. I think the whole group should be deported and no money wasted on them in jail, The parents should be deported too as they seems as much to blame for letting this go on. Also the law should be changed and no one just because he is jewish should get automatic citizenship.

Renate Baramy, Remat Hasharon, Israel

Please do not blow this story out of proportion. You use the word "cell" in your headline, this suggests organised units of terrorists with maybe even a politicial ends trhey are trying to achieve. The reality is that these are just a group of dissaffacted and unpleasant youths.

Alabaster Crashes Down, CPH, denmark

The Law of Return also includes next of kin (e.g. parents) and spouses of anyone with at least one grandparent Jewish.
The rest of the citizenship law also allows for the next of kin and spouses of anyone with an Israeli citizenship (Jewish or non-Jewish).

So many of the immigrants to Israel have no Jewish grandparents at all and some have immigrated for purely economic reasons.

One other large group is African and Asian foreign workers, who after several years can apply for citizenship and their children if born in Israel can also get the citizenship.

Alan, Montreal, Canada

When will Israeli immigration authorities wake up to the possibility that many Russian Jewish immigrants may not actually be Jewish?! We deal with the same crisis in Europe and the United States. People want so bad to get out of the former Soviet bloc countries that they'll obtain false documents claiming they are Jews, knowing foreign consulates will sympathetically, and therefore automatically, grant them visas. Soon after arriving in their new country, they get involved in Russian crime families and-you know the rest.

Real Jews do not need this kind of aggravation. All countries that have taken in Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe should be more cautious.

Mary Witherspoon, Boston, Massachusetts

Why is there a call to limit the number of Ethiopian Jews coming into Israel?

Nane Withheld, London, UK

There should be no law against anti-Semitism, in Israel or anywhere else, for the simple fact that any person is entitled to his opinion. When, however, that opinion finds expression in acts of violence against another person--that is a different matter. But there are already laws aplenty to deal with such violence, and they should be strictly enforced--against anti-Semites and everybody else.

Ross Lowe,, Lipscomb, , Alabama

To Rom and anyone like him - The Zionists saved the lives of those people they managed to 'force' to the 'hot and backward' Middle East. Otherwise they would have been among the 6 million murdered in rather hotter ovens of Aushwitz by Hitler.

Sam Green, Tel Aviv, Israel

A racist gang? Disoriented “youngsters” more likely, desperately in search of an identity they hope to find by opposing and destroying beliefs and values that form the very basis on which a sane society rests.

Ray, Hombeek, Belgium

Let's not blow up this incident to major proportions. Basically, it's just about unadjusted young people who just like soccer hooligans enjoy destroying anything that relates to the existing establishment.

Ray, Hombeek, Belgium