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Thread ID: 13396 | Posts: 10 | Started: 2004-04-27
2004-04-27 18:58 | User Profile
From Haaretz: [url]http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=420956&contrassID=1&subContrassID=9&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y[/url]
Last Update: 27/04/2004 18:25
**Sen. Clinton pledges to introduce proposal against anti-Semitism **
By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondent and DPA
Senator Hillary Clinton sent a letter to a World Jewish Conference held in Berlin on Tuesday pledging to introduce in the United States Senate a proposal against anti-Semitism.
The letter, which was read by President of World Jewish Congress Edgar Bronfman, said that the New York senator would also demand that the United Nations also adopt a proposal against anti-Semitism.
The WJC meeting was being held ahead of a two-day anti-Semitism conference to be held in the German capital on Wednesday and Thursday. About 400 officials from 55 countries plus non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are expected to take part.
Hosted by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Germany, the meeting will also be attended by numerous foreign ministers including U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Also Tuesday, the leader of the WJC said that criticism of the Israeli government cannot be considered a form of anti-Semitism.
"Anybody in a democracy can raise criticism - this is not anti-Semitism," said World Jewish Congress (WJC) Secretary General Israel Singer in an interview with ZDF TV prior to a big anti-Semitism conference opening Wednesday in the German capital.
Singer noted that criticizing policies of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could not be seen as anti-Semitism.
In contrast, denying that Jews have a right to live in their own state is deeply anti-Semitic, he said.
Wolfgang Benz, the head of Berlin's Technical University Centre for Research into Anti-Semitism, called on European states to take a far tougher line on hate directed at Jews.
"We cannot allow complaints about Jews to be raised in parliaments as has happened in some eastern European states," said Benz in a Bayersicher Rundfunk radio interview.
Benz said about 20 per cent of all Germans had latent anti-Semitic sentiments.
Singer warned that racism and hate were "coming back into fashion" in Europe in the 21st century.
The WJC is an international federation of Jewish communities and organisations serving as an umbrella group to Jews of all political beliefs and religious denominations.
2004-04-27 19:19 | User Profile
Just when you thought it couldn't get any more nauseating....
2004-04-27 20:06 | User Profile
1984 - thats where we are.
2004-04-27 20:13 | User Profile
Furthermore, I propose that we have a daily Two Minute Hate directed at all anti-Semites. I can't stand people who hate other people. I just hate them so much!
2004-04-28 03:48 | User Profile
Lets just keep our mouth shut and knock them off .
2004-04-28 19:03 | User Profile
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. [B]Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.[/B]" ~ Patrick Henry
2004-04-28 23:57 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Centinel]From Haaretz: [url="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=420956&contrassID=1&subContrassID=9&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y"]http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=420956&contrassID=1&subContrassID=9&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y[/url]
Last Update: 27/04/2004 18:25
In contrast, denying that Jews have a right to live in their own state is deeply anti-Semitic, he said. Well, can you imagine a European leader saying the same thing about his people? Their hypocrisy never seizes to amaze me. I wonder if they're even aware of it.
Wolfgang Benz, the head of Berlin's Technical University Centre for Research into Anti-Semitism, called on European states to take a far tougher line on hate directed at Jews.
"We cannot allow complaints about Jews to be raised in parliaments as has happened in some eastern European states," said Benz in a Bayersicher Rundfunk radio interview.
No, God, of course not. Imagine that! Complaints about jews. Complaints about Dutch, Italians, Americans that's all just a okay. The big irony, of course, is that were always supposed to hate the German Nazi's because, among other things, they were anti-democratic, but this guy seems to hate democracy just as much as Nazi's supposedly did.
Benz said about 20 per cent of all Germans had latent anti-Semitic sentiments.
Remember, he is from somethiing called the "Technical University Centre for Research into Anti-Semitism" so he knows it alright!
2004-04-29 03:43 | User Profile
It's really amazing how the Western world looks through kosher-approved glasses.
2004-04-29 05:33 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Robbie]It's really amazing how the Western world looks through kosher-approved glasses.[/QUOTE]
I saw Colon Bowel's speech in Europe yesterday on BBC.
He stated forthrightly that "anti-semitism" should be a crime, and that while criticism of Israel is okay, the "line is crossed" into anti-semitism when anti-Israel rhetoric includes Nazi symbols.
The ruling class has just laid down the rule.
Criticism of them is going to be limited to the confines they set. Free speech will end.
And the thing that really gets me about it is that nobody except a few of us seem to have a problem with that.
Screw democracy, man. This is where it leads.
Walter
2004-04-29 13:53 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Walter Yannis] Screw democracy, man. This is where it leads. [/QUOTE] I have also come to this conclusion.