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2003-06-21 04:12 | User Profile
"Giuliani at [Vienna] Anti-Semitism Conference" Neocon Giuliani Attacks Free Speech.
Does any one note how the "Liberal" and Neocon Wings of the GOP have become one After the Sept. 11 attacks?
**Giuliani at Anti-Semitism Conference
By GEORGE JAHN Associated Press Writer
June 19, 2003, 2:45 PM EDT
**VIENNA, Austria -- Anti-Semitism is a scourge of Europe rooted in the same hate that led to the Sept. 11 attacks, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani told an international gathering Thursday.
Giuliani spoke as chief U.S. delegate to a 55-nation conference aimed at fighting anti-Semitism around the world.** As he spoke, he noted the short distance to the Vienna square where adoring crowds mobbed Adolf Hitler as he celebrated Nazi Germany's 1938 annexation of Austria.
"So many lessons of history have not been learned," Giuliani said. "If action had been taken in the 1930s, then millions and millions of people would have lived."
Anti-Semitism, he said, is "a burden that has held Europe back for two millennia," and is generated by the same hate that led to the attacks by Islamic terrorists on Washington and New York.
Later, in a conference call with reporters, Giuliani, who was mayor during the Sept. 11 attacks, said Europe and the United States are working together to reduce attacks against Jews in a way that helps heal the divisions over the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
"There is a common interest ... to work together," he said.
More than 350 delegates from Europe, central Asia, the United States, Russia and Canada are attending the two-day conference, which comes amid an increase in anti-Semitic acts, especially in Europe.
Giuliani said U.S. goals at the conference include agreeing on a uniform way to gather hate crime statistics and persuading all members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which is hosting the gathering, to adopt hate-crime legislation.
U.S. officials also hope to persuade the OSCE to meet annually to discuss anti-Jewish prejudice and for all its members to create educational programs about the issue.
A decision isn't likely, however, before a meeting of foreign ministers of the organization's member countries, scheduled for later this year.
"Words aren't going to suffice to turn the tide of anti-Semitism, which is once again growing in Europe and other parts of the world," the former mayor told the delegates.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, which tracks anti-Semitic incidents, said last month that attacks against Jews in Europe have reached the highest level since World War II.
Since 2001, the center has documented 1,300 anti-Semitic acts in France, including the burning of a Marseille synagogue and the stabbing of a rabbi in Paris. In Britain, records show 1,308 attacks between 1998 and 2001. [All these attacks in France were done by Arabs]
The New-York-based Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in 2002 criticized European governments for laxness in monitoring, publicizing and acting on reports of anti-Semitic violence. **Also last year, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution urging European governments to take action increased attacks on Jews.
Avraham Toledo, Israel's chief delegate to the Vienna meeting, condemned the increase in "hateful acts" against Jews in Europe as he urged countries to enact legislation making anti-Semitism a criminal offense.**
"It will not do to classify assaults on Jews, synagogues or Jewish communal institutions as mere hooliganism and vandalism," Toledo said. "Neither will it do to excuse anti-Semitic rhetoric and violence under the guise of freedom of speech."
Toledo said governments should be alert for acts of anti-Semitism committed under the guise of opposition to Israel's Palestinian policies.
"To justify anti-Semitic phenomena by presenting them as anti-Zionism is the same ugly ideology with fresh makeup," he said.
Copyright é 2003, The Associated Press
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DIRE warnings on "Anti Semitism" [url=http://forum.originaldissent.com/index.php?showtopic=8687]http://forum.originaldissent.com/index.php...?showtopic=8687[/url]
2003-06-21 21:51 | User Profile
A Viennese paper translated his entire speech into German.
If the translation was correct, the guy is a total and complete idiot.
I loved the parts where he said Europeans "have to..." do this and that, as if he had somehow been appointed dictator of Europe.
I also loved where he said that acts of anti-semitism should not be viewed as "mere murder...", murder now being considered a minor offense, it seems.
At the end of the conference, the leading Austrian participant, a retired Constitutional Court Judge, declared that "the best thing [about the conference] was that such conferences will continue." :rolleyes:
I was not able to decide if this comment was to be interpreted as sarcasm or rather senility. :)
2003-06-21 23:23 | User Profile
Originally posted by AntiYuppie@Jun 21 2003, 22:30 * Giuliani has been the darling of the neocons for quite some time.*
The adultory tone in the New York media for Giuliani, reserved only for complete lackiies the the Clinton's or Kennedy's (even though he's a "Republican"), is a dead giveaway.
Has Giuliani ever married that Jewish "administrative assistant" or whoever he left his wife for?
2003-06-21 23:43 | User Profile
Giuliani: worm found in Jewish commodes, commonly called Zionist poopsucker.
-Z-
2003-06-22 01:31 | User Profile
Originally posted by Faust@Jun 21 2003, 04:12 * ** Anti-Semitism, he said, is "a burden that has held Europe back for two millennia," ...*
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Held back from what?
2003-06-22 06:30 | User Profile
Originally posted by Ragnar+Jun 21 2003, 19:31 -->
QUOTE (Ragnar @ Jun 21 2003, 19:31 ) <!--QuoteBegin-Faust@Jun 21 2003, 04:12 * ** Anti-Semitism, he said, is "a burden that has held Europe back for two millennia," ...* **
Held back from what? **
you guys are the absolute greatest