Avigdor Eskin

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Avigdor Eskin (born April 26, 1960) is Russian-Israeli activist.

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.

[edit] 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.

Eskin continued his activities in association with the Russian Political traditionalist Alexander Dugin. Dugin has been accusing of holding Anti-semitic views.

In May, 2005 Eskin won a slander case that he filed against Barry Chamish.[1]

Currently Avigdor Eskin opposes the United States war in Iraq and has written numerous articles critical of the United States.