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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Accurate Toners and Inks" |
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21 Apr 2007 11:44:35 AM |
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Russian MPs Seeking to Ban Jewish Groups |
Russian MPs Seeking to Ban Jewish Groups
http://www.nysun.com/article/8265
MOSCOW - A maverick group of nationalist Russian lawmakers drew rebukes from
Israel, Russia's Jewish leadership, and the Kremlin yesterday for a shocking
declaration that accused Jews of fomenting anti-Semitism and called for the
banning of Jewish organizations.
The letter, dated January 13 and signed by some 20 members of the Russian
Parliament, called on Russia's top prosecutor to launch proceedings "on the
prohibition in our country of all religious and ethnic Jewish organizations
as extremist."
Echoing traditional anti-Semitic rants, it said that "the whole democratic
world is today under the financial and political control of international
Jewry."
It said Jews were "anti-Christian" and guilty of "the illegal appropriation
of state property," a clear reference to the fact that many of Russia's rich
oligarchs are of Jewish descent.
It also suggested that Jews engineered anti-Semitic attacks against
themselves as "a provocation"
(that last statement is the key to understanding the problem)
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