Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said that European Union governments are not doing enough to tackle anti-Semitism because of an "ever stronger Muslim presence in Europe". In an interview published on Monday Sharon also rejected complaints from European politicians that the Jewish state tends to stigmatise legitimate criticism of Israel's policies towards the Palestinians as anti-Semitism. "These days to conduct an anti-Semite policy is not a popular thing, so the anti-Semites bundle their policies in with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," he told EUpolitix.com, an online newswire dedicated to EU affairs. "Of course there are anti-Semites who use the events in Israel and the argument that Israel uses excessive force, and through this they are trying to compromise Israel's right to self-defence. Thus there is a danger to Jews."
| It's a problem the EU likes to pretend doesn't exist, even when events get out of hand. If they had 17 million strident Jews instead of 17 million strident Muslims things would probably look different. |
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