French Liberals HATE Jews
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European Jews Increasingly Targeted by Attacks, Slurs
Lisa Bryant, Voice of America, May 14, 2003
Hate acts against Jews in Europe are increasing, according to experts
at a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) meeting in Paris.
The three-day conference was organized by the Simon Wiesenthal Center,
an international Jewish rights group, and it included a number of
Jewish activists and Israeli politicians, along with international
experts. The center suggests that hate acts against Jews in Europe
have reached levels not seen since World War II.
The head of the European Union monitoring center on racism, Beate
Winkler, told the conference that slurs and attacks against Jews, and
sometimes Muslims, have grown alarmingly in certain parts of Europe.
Ms. Winkler said the recent rise in anti-Jewish acts has been
particularly noted in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and France. She
also described an alarming increase in Internet hate messages coming
from Spain and Denmark. In some cases, she said, fundamental religious
groups are working with right-wing
hate groups in creating the Web sites.
But she also praised recent European efforts to teach tolerance,
including new European Union legislation to fight racism and
xenophobia.
France, home to the world's third-largest Jewish community, has been a
particular cause of concern in recent months. A report in March by the
French government found anti-Jewish acts constituted 62 percent of all
hate crimes in 2002.
In many cases, those committing the acts are young ethnic Arabs, said
Rachid Kaci, an ethnic North African politician, and a member of
France's conservative UMP party.
Ignoring the fact that Muslim youths are perpetrating many anti-Jewish
acts, he says, is naive at best, and ignorant at worst. In low-income
housing projects, where many live, he says the word "Jew" has become
an insult.
But critics argue the Wiesenthal Center has mislabeled widespread
anger in Europe over Israel's treatment of Palestinians as
anti-Semitism. Protesters outside the Paris conference also said the
center had deliberately excluded radical Jewish organizations from its
list of hate groups.
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Anti-Jewish attacks soaring
01/04/2004 11:54 - (SA)
Strasbourg - The number of anti-Semitic attacks in Europe has soared
in recent years, according to a report by the EU's racism watchdog on
Wednesday which singled out five countries for particular concern.
Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Britain have seen a
notable rise in anti-Jewish attacks over the last two or three years,
said the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC)
report.
Most countries also saw worrying trends, it said, although few
problems were recorded in four countries: Ireland, Luxembourg,
Portugal and Finland.
"Europe has a problem with anti-Semitism, manifestations of which have
been getting more frequent in some parts of the EU over the last two
or three years," said the EUMC in a report presented to the European
Parliament.
The report comes after the EU held a high-level conference in February
to clamp down on anti-Semitism --a "monster" that Jewish leaders
warned had returned with a vengeance to the continent six decades
after the Holocaust.
That conference was hastily organised after a shock opinion poll in
November which found that Europeans believe Israel is the biggest
threat to world peace.
The 344-page report by the Vienna-based EUMC was the first time that
data have been collected systematically across the European Union,
which expands from 15 to 25 members on May 1.
Areas of concern highlighted by the study, focussed on 2002 and 2003,
include:
in Belgium "a catalogue of incidents of varying extremity ...
including the firebombing of Jewish property and some serious physical
assaults."
in Germany most acts were verbal rather than physical. Jewish groups
reported
increasing numbers of letters, emails and phone calls from 2002.
in the Netherlands anti-Semitic acts increased "significantly" in
particular in Amsterdam which has a relative large Jewish community.
in Britain there were violent attacks on two synagogues, two cases of
suspected arson and several attacks on Jewish cemeteries.
in France there was a six-fold increase in anti-Semitic incidents in
2002. "There were many incidents of Jewish people assaulted and
insulted, attacks against synagogues, cemeteries and other Jewish
property," it said. Edited by Trisha Shannon
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Left-wing liberals are EVERYTHING they accuse the right of being. They
are mean, vicious, hateful, greedy, cold-hearted, closed-minded,
selfish, intolerant, bigoted and racist.
Liberals HATE America!
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