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Thread ID: 7491 | Posts: 9 | Started: 2003-06-20
2003-06-20 01:08 | User Profile
Europe warned on anti-Semitism
Attacks on synagogues have increased since 11 September 2001 The United States has said Europe must do more to tackle a resurgence of anti-Semitism around the world.
The plea was made by former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, representing the US at a conference in the Austrian capital, Vienna.
"Words do not suffice to turn the tide of anti-Semitism that is once again growing in Europe and other parts of the world," he said.
About 400 officials from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have gathered for the unprecedented two-day meeting following a rash of anti-Jewish incidents in Europe in recent years.
The European Union told the conference it was taking action against anti-Jewish hatred but denied there had been a distinctive rise in anti-Semitism.
Official limits
Mr Giuliani told delegates to take concrete steps to stamp out violence against Jews, including keeping statistics on hate crimes, identifying problems early on and comparing performances between countries.
In a message read to the conference, US President George W Bush urged countries to "ensure that anti-Semitism is excluded from school text books, official statements, official television programming and official publications".
Last month, the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Centre said attacks on Jews had reached the highest level since World War II.
As well as physical attacks on Jews, many countries have reported vandalism of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries,
Hate messages
French representative Michel Voisin, whose country has experienced a six-fold increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the space of a year, said France viewed anti-Semitism as a "particularly odious form of racism".
The Polish delegate, former Polish Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, warned that anti-Semitism had "mutated" in Poland since the Holocaust, which wiped out nearly all of Poland's pre-war Jewish population.
Giuliani says more needs to be done to stamp out anti-Semitism
Several delegates pointed to the problem of the internet being used to spread hate messages, while Dutch OSCE ambassador Daan Everts highlighted "[racist] music [and] racist slogans in football stadiums".
Israeli chief representative Avraham Toledo called on conference delegates to make anti-Semitism a criminal offence.
"It will not do to classify assaults on Jews, synagogues or Jewish communal institutions as mere hooliganism and vandalism," he said.
The conference opened a day after the Romanian Government retracted an earlier claim that "there was no Holocaust" on Romanian soil.
2003-06-20 01:33 | User Profile
"Attacks on synagogues?? Hate messages?? D-oh! Those evil anti-Sem[blip]. Sem[blip], Sem[blip], Sem[blip], Sem...ites!"
[Sorry -- the Jew record got stuck]
:D
2003-06-20 01:36 | User Profile
*Originally posted by EDUMAKATEDMOFO@Jun 19 2003, 19:08 * ** French representative Michel Voisin, whose country has experienced a six-fold increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the space of a year, said France viewed anti-Semitism as a "particularly odious form of racism". **
In other words: All races are equal, but all forms of racism are not. :blink:
2003-06-20 01:57 | User Profile
Right. I just scanned the same thing, following up yesterday's NYTimes Op-Ed Giuliani piece titled "How Europe Can Stop the Hate". Provoking these thoughts.
1. Guiliani wagging the dog at Europeans who are fed up with Jews, Jewishness, The Jewish State of Israel, and, especially Ariel Sharon, is not a pretty sight. Not pretty sight, at all. What can he mean? --Like -"We showed you Nazi bastards once what happens if you mess with God's chosen, now don't even think of stirring up that kettle." (maybe I am a provocateur, as Okie says.) As if someone were required to ask permission as to how to feel about someone else from his ex-mayoral Emperial Highness.
2. There are layers of Catch 22 that native white classical Europeans are put in. A. Their governments are called upon to deal with political conflict as criminal -- in effect, eforcing Sharon's law on their citizens -- **[u]while denying that is what they are doing![/u]**. B. But it is not enough merely to **[u]criminalize[/u]** politically (anti-Semitic) motivated behavior (as outrage at Israel's preemptive terrorist strikes against Palestinians; redefining terms of agreement; enlarging the definitions of anti-Semitism to include anti-Zionism -- previously kept carefully distinct in order not to repell anti-Zonists). Their very motive, itself, must be declared illegal!
Israeli chief representative Avraham Toledo called on conference delegates to make anti-Semitism a criminal offence
3. At home, the blowback has taken the form of FBI Chief Mueller declaring suicide bombers "inevitable", which I guess means sooner or latter.
4. Stirred even further to provoke, I cannot omit including a Tuesday letter to the NY Times editor, since it is so appropo, and came from a spot just down the road:
(Under "Europe, Christians and History")
" To The Editor
The oxymoron that should concern Kenneth L. Woodward is the lack of recognition of the strong ties of European culture to its Judeo-Chriustian roots, not just to Christianity ("An Oxymoron: Europe Without Christianity," Op-Ed, June 14). The central concept of the Enlightenment and what defines Western democracy is the idea of the consent of the governed. Far from arising from canon law, its roots are traced to the presentation and then acceptance by the Jewish people of the Ten Commandments. It was Old Testament literature that laid the foundations for the Declaration fo Independence and the 1789 French Declaration of the Right of Man. Bertrand Horwitz." Vestal, N.Y. June 14, 2003)
And the Russian Ivonoski invented the brass spittoon. I submit this for gibberish of the month award. It is what I call "the New Semitism". Nothing pretty about it.
2003-06-20 02:11 | User Profile
** Israeli chief representative Avraham Toledo called on conference delegates to make anti-Semitism a criminal offence. **
:1eye: Coming soon to a "land of the free" near you. Let's Role! :1eye:
2003-06-20 02:34 | User Profile
*Originally posted by Campion Moore Boru@Jun 19 2003, 19:11 * ** > ** Israeli chief representative Avraham Toledo called on conference delegates to make anti-Semitism a criminal offence. **
:1eye: Coming soon to a "land of the free" near you. Let's Role! :1eye: **
Isn't that what the Bolsheviks did after taking over Russia? Zhids are their old self. Remember Mojo/NIC demanding evidence for this? Out of the horse's mouth. The true totalitarians and the original nazis.
2003-06-20 02:49 | User Profile
I remember it well. It was there that I was pushed over the edge by that flamer, and your patient methodic rejoinders of evidence.
Do you think he's still drafting his opus on Opa Adolf? :lol:
I'm sure it will be filled with all sorts of new theories and facts refreshingly novel and unpc. :clown:
2003-06-21 04:16 | User Profile
Jewliani really is a zhidsucker first class. He knows who applies the cream cheese to his bagel, as does the Chimp.
2003-06-21 04:32 | User Profile
N.B. Forrest,
Yes Giuliani is a...
"Giuliani at [Vienna]Anti-Semitism Conference" Neocon Giuliani Attacks Free Speech. [url=http://forum.originaldissent.com/index.php?showtopic=8712]http://forum.originaldissent.com/index.php...?showtopic=8712[/url]