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Europe
WJC Puts Shelved EU Anti-Semitism Study on Web
2003-12-02
The World Jewish Congress made public Tuesday a disputed anti-Semitism report kept under wraps by the European Union and accused the EU of not facing up to anti-Jewish sentiment among Muslim immigrants in Europe. The report was also posted on at least one European news Web site, that of Danish television station TV2 (http://gfx.tv2.dk/images/Nyhederne/Pdf/report_en.pdf).
Homie says check it out. Looks like a non-controverisial collection of easily verifiable facts to me.
The EUMC has denied accusations in the European press that it had shelved the report because it singled out Muslims immigrants and pro-Palestinian groups as the main culprits. "We think the failure of the EU to release it until now was an act of intellectual dishonesty and cowardice," said Elan Steinberg, executive vice president of the WJC.
Cowardice - from EU bureaucrats? Never!
"To be candid, I think they are not prepared to deal with the sensitive subject of rogue regimes with weapons of mass destruction or reality in general, anti-Semitism among Muslims, who constitute Europe’s largest minority," he told Reuters in a phone interview from his New York office.
Besides, the Brits, Spaniards and Italians cornered the EU market on spines. Nothing left for the bureaucrats in Brussels (nematodes-R-us).
A statement on the EUMC Web site said the study, drawn up by the respected Center for Research on Anti-Semitism at Berlin’s Technical University, was withheld because it was substandard and would be reworked before being issued early next year. The Berlin center has denied its work was flawed.
You would think the German’s would know a thing or two about anti-Semitism.
In the report as posted on the Internet, the Berlin center said a rise in anti-Semitic violence in the first half of 2002 was committed primarily by right-wing extremists, radical Islamists and young Muslims, mainly of Arab descent.
Surprise! How much did they get paid for this study anyway? Talk about a government job... I suppose there’s and outside chance the perpetrators could have been midgets and Rastafarians.
"Many of these attacks occurred either during or after pro-Palestinian demonstrations and after the weekly call to jihad at the local mosques, which were also used by radical Islamists for hurling verbal abuse," it said. The report noted anti-Semitic remarks heard at pro- Palestinian and anti-globalization rallies and added: "Often this generated a combination of anti-Zionist and anti-American views that formed an important element in the emergence of an anti-Semitic mood in Europe."
In the US most people call them wackos. In Europe they’re opinion leaders.
Posted by:NotAJew

#1  Here is the link in archiveable format.
Posted by: Dishman   2003-12-2 7:07:36 PM  

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